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Land reform proposal
Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/02/2011
» Land ownership inequalities will be targeted with land tax, cap on ownership, land bank, zoning, and database.
It's best not to forget lessons of 1991 coup
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 24/02/2017
» Feb 23, the day the military top brass toppled the government of Chatichai Choonhavan in a bloodless coup in 1991 (with a political bloodbath, known as the Black May uprising the following year) passed by almost without notice.
Full circle after 24 years
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/08/2016
» Greetings from Nakhon Pathom. This week your favourite columnist finds himself in a hotel room for five days in this little town just west of Bangkok. "Little town" is hardly a good description, though it was certainly that way when I first visited here a quarter of a century ago. Bangkok has since extended her tentacles, swallowing up the likes of Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi and Minburi.
Tolerance of corruption
Jon Fernquest, Published on 29/11/2010
» Citizens who won't tolerate corruption anymore, as in the case of Hong Kong over 50 years ago, may be the essential ingredient in fighting corruption.
Father of rural healthcare
Jon Fernquest, Published on 17/06/2011
» As Dr. Sem Pringpuangkaew turns 100, a review of his life reveals a history of rural medicine in Thailand during the 20th century.
Public-private partnership law and corruption
Jon Fernquest, Published on 20/12/2010
» Corrupt politicians soon dreamed up ways to circumvent the original public-private partnership (PPP) law of 1992. Can a new rewrite of the law close all the loopholes in the law used for corruption?
Decentralise to save Southern Thailand
Jon Fernquest, Published on 20/05/2011
» Savage beheadings, car bombs and attacks on monks, all driven by an "endless cycle of revenge," must end.