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    PM stumbles into pothole of scandals

    News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 04/10/2016

    » What is more embarrassing: A young woman posting a photo of herself "taking a bath" in one of many potholes on the road to her village in Tak to send a sarcastic message for authorities to take action. Or a deputy prime minister spending 20.9 million baht of public money chartering a plane that can carry hundreds of people for his entourage of 38 for a four-day work trip to Hawaii?

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    Law trumps iron fist in fight against drugs

    News, Editorial, Published on 02/10/2016

    » Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has apparently tried to justify his bloodthirsty approach to dealing with the drug epidemic. On Friday, he likened himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in his bid to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the Philippines.

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    Tackling economic cost of poor education

    News, Published on 03/10/2016

    » Last month, Asean announced the signing of its Declaration on Strengthening Education for Out-of-School Children and Youth, with an aim to keep its commitment to the spirit of UN Sustainable Development Goal 4: to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all" by the year 2030.

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    Government double standards just won't fly

    News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/10/2016

    » Auditor-General Pisit Leelavachiropas was stating the obvious when he declared last week that Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon's 20.9-million-baht chartered flight to attend a meeting in Hawaii was "above board" and that the serving of expensive food like caviar is "normal".

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    Hawaii-gate shows regime dangers of 'perks'

    News, Suranand Vejjajiva, Published on 11/10/2016

    » Public attention has been riveted on the high-profile trip to Hawaii of Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon to attend the Asean–US Defence Informal Meeting although those involved have made a massive attempt to downplay it.

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    Rajabhakti, Hawaii sagas not over yet

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/10/2016

    » The plots are similar. In March, Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya, Auditor-General Pisit Leelavachiropas and Prayong Priyajit, secretary-general of the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission appeared at a press conference to jointly declare the Rajabhakti Park project in Hua Hin was above-board and cleared of any corruption.

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    Loosening the 'monopolisation' of opinion

    News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/10/2016

    » After more than two years in power, the military government has consolidated power among its brothers-in-arms rather than reaching out and embracing other stakeholders in planning the future of the country.

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    Thailand's changing political narrative

    News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 09/09/2016

    » So far in the 21st century, the main narrative of Thai politics has centred on a colour-coded class divide, characterised by an urban-rural chasm along the lines of elites versus the masses.

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    Brazil picks up pieces after Rousseff's fall

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/09/2016

    » On Tuesday former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff left the presidential palace in Brasilia and boarded a plane for her adopted home city of Porto Alegre. She leaves behind a successor who risks indictment for far worse offences than the ones that brought her down, and a country that has lost its right to a place among the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (Brics) association.

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    The Korean rhetoric and its reality

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/09/2016

    » Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said that North Korea was the "neighbourhod outlaw" after Pyongyang's fifth nuclear weapons test on Friday. Barack Obama said that "The United States does not, and never will, accept North Korea as a nuclear state". Even China voiced its "firm opposition to the test". And South Korea's president, Park Gyeung-hye, accused North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong-un of "maniacal recklessness".

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