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Anti-populism law not for greater good
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 09/05/2018
» Raising one finger during her campaigning to symbolise her party's ballot number ahead of the 2011 election, Yingluck Shinawatra rode a wave of popularity all the way to victory. And now the man who threw her caretaker government out of office in 2014 by force has demonstrated he is not shy of using a similar gimmick.
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Does Yingluck punishment fit the crime?
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 16/09/2016
» Both are the first female national leaders similarly alleged to have committed fiscal crimes of responsibility. They, however, faced the music of a different tune.
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Shall we bend the law to keep politicians honest?
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 25/10/2017
» In the Land of Smiles where the judiciary has increasingly been a channel widely sought to settle political conflicts and end political cases, one minority judge's ruling on the case against ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra reminds us how far we can go when it comes to criminal prosecution, or to put it in laymen's terms, putting someone in prison.
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Prosecuting a country's 'CEO' a risky move
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 27/07/2017
» Should chief executive officers (CEOs) who inflict losses on companies be jailed for mismanagement and then be forced to compensate the firms? If so, national leaders -- like ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra who is undergoing a criminal trial for implementing the supposedly loss-ridden rice-pledging scheme -- could face the same prospect of punishment for a flawed project.
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Moving on from the great escape
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 25/09/2017
» If it hadn't happened in Thailand but in some other country, many of us in the media might have seen the Yingluck Shinawatra escape from a different angle.
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Political nitpicking stymies our progress
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 06/02/2020
» If the Constitutional Court rules on Friday that the 2020 budget bill is invalid, let's not blame the delay in budget disbursement on proxy voting by a tiny number of MPs. Who should take the blame then? The culprit is our parliamentary system, for its inability to resolve this tiny technical hiccup in the Lower House, which allowed it to get out of hand.
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Justice system still shackled by politics
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 07/02/2019
» Has Thailand been caught between a rock and a hard place over the extradition case of detained Bahraini footballer Hakeem al-Araibi, who holds refugee status in Australia but is wanted by Bahrain for alleged vandalism?
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Don't turn NHS Act into a tragedy
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 21/06/2017
» How would you feel to be a destitute patient waiting to be treated at a state hospital? You might feel desperate, bitter and embarrassed as you kept one eye on the clock knowing you were only going to get a second-rate service.
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'Heroes' must stick to their principles
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 22/02/2017
» At a time when "people from the same camp" broke a principle he said he once believed in, Wanchai Sornsiri, a member of the National Reform Steering Assembly, seems to believe that silence is golden.
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Politicising rice can be a worthy cause
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 10/11/2016
» The regime's responses to plummeting rice prices have been both disappointing and disastrous to it and farmers.
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