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Reward is undeserved
News, Editorial, Published on 02/09/2015
» The national police chief took a shocking step on Monday. Pol Gen Somyot Poompunmuang went before the media and on live television to wave around blocks of 1,000-baht bills he said totalled three million baht.
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Drug payoffs thwart action
News, Editorial, Published on 27/10/2015
» A group of concerned Myanmar citizens has made the biggest advance in the struggle against illicit drugs in many years. The grassroots group, which calls itself the Kachin Anti-Drug Committee, has taken action where government authorities have fallen short.
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Doping woes run deep
News, Editorial, Published on 17/11/2015
» The Russian athletic officials and a few track and field competitors have been caught doping. But that is only the tip of the iceberg. The Russians got away with it for a long time by bribing the top international track and field officials who knew they were cheating. The head of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), a previously admired man and a UK sporting hero, knew nothing about this during three years in charge. Those involved with doping must be banned for life, but this dirty business goes much further, and has many more victims.
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Punish Klong Dan cheaters
News, Editorial, Published on 19/11/2015
» The cabinet on Tuesday approved a budget of 9.8 billion baht to be disbursed from the Central Fund for the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to pay the NVPSKG consortium for the construction of the Klong Dan waste water treatment project in Samut Prakan province as ordered by the Administrative Court.
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Shine light on BMA's flaws
News, Editorial, Published on 02/01/2016
» Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra and his team of administrators must straighten their priorities and deliver what they promised to city people.
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Too brutal for Asean
News, Editorial, Published on 04/01/2016
» The shocking photos and video of last week's whippings in Indonesia's Aceh province have refocused attention on a serious problem within Asean. On the eve of the Asean community becoming an economic union, a woman and five men were caned in public in Banda Aceh. Four were whipped for gambling and a couple were caned for "indecency". Such barbarity has no place in a modernising and progressive Asean Community (AC), which was formed to bring prosperity.
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Farmers' call unrealistic
News, Editorial, Published on 14/01/2016
» Belatedly, the cabinet's decision on Tuesday ordering the Public Warehouse Organisation (PWO) to buy 100,000 tonnes of all types of rubber products at above-market prices directly from rubber growers has managed to head off threatened protests by rubber growers, especially those in southern provinces. The decision was accepted by most rubber growers although many still want the government to subsidise the rubber sheet price at 60 baht a kilogramme.
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Securing the tourism sector
News, Editorial, Published on 19/01/2016
» In an under-achieving and worrying economy, there has been one clear success. The statistics are impressive from every angle. Last year, 29.88 million tourists put 2.21 trillion baht into the economy.
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A steady drip of censorship
News, Editorial, Published on 03/02/2016
» The military regime has stepped up its campaign to squeeze information, providers and readers on the internet. It has made public its plans to do this and made it clear it will carry on attempts to convince foreign firms to delete information, reveal identities and transfer control of at least some discussions to the government. The known foreign targets of this pressure are Google, Facebook and Line.
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Our teachers' heavy burden
News, Editorial, Published on 11/02/2016
» It is a well-known fact that a large number of teachers in this country are heavily loaded with debts, both formal and informal. The chronic debt problem is so bad that some fear the quality of education in Thailand may be affected because teachers themselves appear to be more concentrated on finding the money to pay their debts than on teaching.
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