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Thai Rath Analysis
News, Published on 02/01/2012
» There will be another round of political conflict this year if the ruling Pheu Thai Party pushes for constitutional amendments that will allow ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return home without facing any legal consequences of the Sept 19, 2006 coup that removed him from power.
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To stop the rot, first understand it
News, Published on 04/01/2012
» It's rare that I download a letter; what is more, I leave it on my desktop for reflection. That's what I did with Andrew of Chiang Mai's letter published on the last day of 2011 ("Constitution change should be an open process", Postbag, Dec 31). I suspect it must have made an equal impression on other readers.
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Immunity not for foul crime
News, Published on 04/01/2012
» It is past time for fellow representatives to make the only possible decision concerning Member of Parliament Khanchit Thapsuwan. He is the MP suspected of killing a rival politician in Samut Sakhon province on Dec 25. Police have stood by since shortly after the murder to arrest Mr Khanchit and bring him to court. But top officials of Parliament, partly because of the holidays, have failed to give the go-ahead for an arrest. Parliamentary immunity is being abused and the Speaker must act with more urgency and responsibility.
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Be young and shut up
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/01/2012
» A week before Children's Day, we have reason to cherish a bright future for our nation's youth.
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Witch hunt for red Joss Stick
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 08/01/2012
» Hate mail and threats are the least of her worries. Being shunned by society that has forced a young girl to become persona non grata should be considered cruel and unusual punishment She had to change her name. She was turned away from three universities despite passing the entrance exams. She's hounded by the press and society. It has been more than three years, and the witch hunt continues.
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Deserving of top honours
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/01/2012
» On screen and in headlines, Iran the provocateur du jour, is causing a stir. As Israel fumes, as Bibi Netanyahu ponders a pre-emptive strike, as the US watches with hawk-eyed severity over Teheran's nuclear ambition, and as an alleged Iran-backed Hezbollah rabble-rouser was arrested in Bangkok and a spectacular arsenal of bomb materials uncovered - as the quivers in Hormuz Strait are felt throughout Earth, an Iranian film cruised past contenders to win the Golden Globe. Worldwide punters now believe A Separation will become the first Iranian title to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Never mind the sanctions, an Iran-scripted drama has had Hollywood (and Washington) in thrall. So catch it now: A Separation is showing on one screen in Bangkok, at House RCA (I hope it'll stay there for a few more weeks.) It won't give you a crash course on the latest nuclear grumble; the politics of the film is smaller in scope yet larger in humanity, for it concerns class, marriage, religiosity, and the heart-aching struggle to uphold justice in the court of God and by the rule of law. At the centre, the film is about a separation of a couple, called Nader and Simin, but at heart this is a complex drama of moral quandaries that inflict bourgeoise Teheranians and speak of other kinds of seperation, physical and spiritual, visible and clandestine, in a society heaving with pride, prejudice and doubt. In short, it's closer to home than the belligerent rhetoric of the nuclear war.
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Lessons of the nalinee debacle
News, Published on 22/01/2012
» Regarding your story yesterday, ''Strategists urge Nalinee to quit'', the debacle over the suitability of Nalinee Taveesin to be in cabinet has flushed out some important points. The first is the general probity of her as an individual. Her decision to undertake financial transactions with the cohort of a regime as loathsome as that of Robert Mugabe puts that into serious doubt.
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US campaign funding sets bad example
News, Published on 22/01/2012
» The trend in the US of staging ever costlier and more drawn out elections is obviously not one the rest of the world should followMany people around the world are no doubt shaking their heads in disbelief at the field of Republican Party candidates competing to be the party's standard bearer in November's US presidential elections. Equally inexplicable to people in most if not all other democratic nations are the massive amounts of money put into US election campaigns. The non-partisan Centre for Responsive Politics estimated that well over $1 billion was spent on presidential campaigns in the 2008 election, most coming from the same industries and interests that funded previous elections.
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Thawee pushes for peace by recompense
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 25/01/2012
» Thawee Sodsong believes a new, friendly strategy of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre will succeed in quelling the violence and silence the critics who fear it will only inflame the situation in the restive deep South.
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Justice for poor hinges on reform
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/01/2012
» After 12 years of an exhaustive series of court battles, Paijit Silarak, the grassroots activist and arch enemy of Rasi Salai Dam, can finally let out a sigh of relief.
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