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    A time for the rule of law

    News, Published on 23/01/2015

    » The National Legislative Assembly's (NLA) decision today in the highly sensitive, hotly debated impeachment case against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra will set the standard for future cases.

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    'War of civilisations' rhetoric is outdated, dangerous

    News, Published on 22/01/2015

    » On Jan 7, the day jihadists attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in France, I was in a small village in Anatolia, Turkey. I had barely registered the horrifying news when a friend forwarded me a tweet from New York Times columnist Roger Cohen. "The entire free world," it read, "should respond, ruthlessly."

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    Obama sets sights on foreign policy

    News, Published on 22/01/2015

    » President Barack Obama used his penultimate state-of-the-union address on Tuesday to try to reframe US domestic politics for the next two years. Declaring that the US resurgence is real, he made the case for why the country now needs a period of greater shared prosperity after the worst economic downturn since the 1930s.

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    Legalise app cabs to ride in happiness

    News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 22/01/2015

    » After several failed attempts at hailing a taxi to return home from work downtown, a friend of mine changed strategy.

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    Thai workers in Israel are dying, and it's got to stop

    News, Published on 22/01/2015

    » Praiwan Seesukha, a healthy 37-year-old Thai man from Isan, went to sleep on the night of May 21, 2013, and never woke up.

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    Guilty of a failed scheme

    News, Published on 22/01/2015

    » The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) on Tuesday voted unanimously to recommend prosecutors indict former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom, former deputy commerce minister Poom Sarapol, and 19 senior government officials and business executives for their roles in fake government-to-government (G-to-G) rice deals with two Chinese companies.

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    Take a stand on taxis, general

    Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 22/01/2015

    » The bitter account of a Japanese educational volunteer's latest experience at Suvarnabhumi airport, which he referred to as "a disgrace to Thailand", has been all over the internet in the past few days. Originating on Facebook, where it since has been shared more than 1,600 times, Koki Aki — known as Kamen Rider among some of Bangkok's underprivileged children after visiting them dressed as the motorcycle-driving Japanese superhero — complained about poor service at the airport, especially in regards to taxis.

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    Yingluck's chances of survival look very slim

    News, Nattaya Chetchotiros, Published on 22/01/2015

    » Tomorrow will see historic impeachment motions against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra together with her top lieutenants, former House speaker Somsak Kiatsuranon and former Senate speaker Nikom Wairatpanij.

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    Rice questions linger

    News, Published on 22/01/2015

    » When Yingluck speaks to the National Legislative Assembly this week, its members should seek to administer justice − not vengeance. In a court of justice, each side makes its case, and is subject to cross-examination, aiding discovery of the truth upon which to decide justly.

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    A 'third-way' compromise is imperative

    News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 23/01/2015

    » As Thailand is gripped yet again by a political climax surrounding former prime minister Yingluck Shinwatra's impeachment trial for dereliction of duty over her ousted government's rice-pledging scheme, it is instructive to take a long view beyond the drama of the day.

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