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    No one benefits as old regime drags out its end

    Oped, Thana Boonlert, Published on 01/10/2021

    » Standing together in a space demarcated as a forbidden area, two actors began to spread red paint over their bodies and create flags out of ropes and twigs. When they ran wild and cried out "Long live the people!" the message could not be clearer. Performed by the Layyim Theatre group, the gig was a part of the rally held by the United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration (UFTD) to commemorate the first year of the movement. It was held in front of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre on Sunday.

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    A month of history

    Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 21/09/2020

    » Planned at Thammasat University's Tha Prachan campus, the anti-government rally under the title, "Sept 19: Return Power To Civilians" was set on the same date as the 2006 coup d'état.

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    The kids are all right

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 28/10/2018

    » <i>Prathet Ku Mee</i> is no slapped-together concert song. It wasn't made, so much as crafted. The accusatory lyrics are set against the shameful, hovering background of the 1976 dictators' massacre at Thammasat University. The rap song's finale brings the background image of the hanged, beaten student to the front of the picture, before fading out to the hopeful message, "All people unite".

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    Stealing a march or two

    News, Editorial, Published on 25/01/2018

    » The military regime should tread carefully in dealing with groups conducting a civic march which began on Saturday from Thammasat Rangsit campus to their destination in Khon Kaen.

  • OPINION

    Thai army needs to march to a new tune

    Oped, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 13/05/2023

    » I always get feelings of fear when I hear the army's famous propaganda song, Nak Paendin, which in Thai means "burden of the country". As a child born during the 1970s, this song reminds me of military putsches.

  • OPINION

    Breaking the cycle of land inequality

    News, Editorial, Published on 02/04/2023

    » Thailand's land ownership disparity is one of the worst in the world. As such, land reform should be a crucial campaign policy for the upcoming general election. Unfortunately, it is not.

  • OPINION

    'Bob' Halliday gone, but his light lives on

    News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/06/2017

    » Bob told me many stories from a time when I hadn't even been born: During the Oct 14, 1973 student uprising, the authorities suspected he was a spy. When the Oct 6, 1976 massacre took place and the stench of blood was still fresh at Thammasat University, he surveyed the wreckage and bemoaned the state of the country he had adopted as his new home. Some evenings he reminisced on how he had lived through several dictators and prime ministers, hijacked or elected, overthrown or incapacitated -- he talked about Richard Nixon, Thanom Kittikachorn, Tanin Kraivixien, Thaksin Shinawatra, Prayut Chan-o-cha, etc. It didn't matter what happened, he'd say, as long as he could prowl produce markets in search of the perfect durian -- the caramelised Holy Grail of the fruit he adored above all else, the fruit that, as he'd say, made him "slobber like a mastiff".

  • OPINION

    Rise above the folly

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/03/2023

    » Re: "Foreigners flee Thai stocks", (Business, March 2).

  • OPINION

    New Chula library honours Chamnan

    News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 08/09/2014

    » Chamnan Yuvaboon, born 100 years ago this year and still going strong, is a man with a distinguished background. He was an outstanding student — the country's first to complete a doctorate degree from Thammasat University's political science faculty in 1953. After starting his career in a junior position in the Interior Ministry, he became a well-recognised figure for the many initiatives he started that still function today.

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    Puey Ungphakorn's honourable but unfulfilled dream

    News, Somchai Jitsuchon, Published on 20/04/2016

    » 2016 marks the 100th year since the birth of Puey Ungphakorn, top economist and former Bank of Thailand governor. A number of commemorative events were already held, and many more are planned to celebrate this important anniversary in the eyes of many Thais who admire him. But if you ask, you might get different answers as to why he is so hugely admired. He is remembered by some as the founding father of the modern Thai economy; by others as a member of Seri Thai which fought to maintain Thailand's independence during World War II; and yet also as Thammasat University's rector during the troubled time of October 1976, when he had to flee Thailand to live and die in foreign country.

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