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An unlikely muse to art of endurance
News, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 31/03/2016
» So what's the latest? Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said the draft charter by the Meechai Ruchupan-led Constitution Drafting Committee -- yes, the one with a wholly-appointed Senate and fixed senator posts for armed forces and police chiefs -- is up for the referendum and, I quote, "No one will dare to touch it."
A road map to nowhere
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 15/09/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha recently admitted that when he wrote the line "We are asking for a little more time" in the song Returning Happiness To The People, he didn't think it through. Obviously, he didn't.
Hong Kong protest provokes Thai navel-gazing
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 01/10/2014
» As I write this, the latest Facebook status of Sombat Boonngamanong, leader of Thai pro-democracy group Red Sunday, reads: "Hong Kongers are not happy".
Splitting seems not all that shocking
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 22/04/2014
» When a banner bearing the message “This country has no justice. I want to split the country” was set up earlier this year across a pedestrian flyover in Phayao province in the North, I was shocked.
The means justify the end
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/12/2013
» Allow me to venture a thought we might have overlooked during the weeks-long fight between Suthep-led anti-Thaksin protests and Yingluck Shinawatra's government _ Thais are fighting over something that may become beautiful.
Revolutionary or radical?
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 02/10/2013
» Labelling the Thai education system "dictatorial" and campaigning for the abolition of the strict rules regarding students' uniforms and hairstyles, 16-year-old Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal has suffered a barrage of curses and insults from social media users. Many have expressed a wish for the boy to go and live in another country. Netiwit also wants the singing of the national anthem and prayers in the morning at school cancelled _ all the more reason for nationalist Facebook warriors to despise him.