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Buddhist monks order reforms ahead of royal transition
Reuters, Published on 19/10/2017
» Under growing pressure from Thailand's military government, and their own religious bodies, Buddhist monks have launched a fresh round of reforms in recent weeks to clean up temples and overhaul a religion stalked by scandal.
In police theatre, the joke is on us
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 27/09/2017
» Those who have lived in Thailand long enough have probably heard of a form of folk theatre known in Thai as likay.
Life, love, liberation
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/09/2017
» In the sole Thai film showing at Toronto International Film Festival this week, a soap opera star stuck in a loveless marriage tangles with an eccentric hitman and a powerful cult. Samui Song is the latest feature film by Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, who's fashioned a crime thriller that also plays as a critique of many things: patriarchal oppression, faux-Buddhism, public healthcare and the act of cinema-making itself.
NOB transfer harms govt anti-graft drive
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/09/2017
» Pol Lt Col Pongporn Pramsaneh has been widely recognised as an honest and straightforward officer in the Department of Special Investigation – a rare breed in the police force. It explains why he was ordered shifted from the DSI's head of the Tax Litigation Office to lead the National Office of Buddhism (NOB) on Feb 25 by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to do an unenviable mission. His task was to clean up the mess concerning the misappropriation of government funds for the renovation of temples and for schools on temple grounds.
Regime angers critics over NOB transfer
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/09/2017
» The government is feeling the heat over the transfer of Pol Lt Col Pongporn Pramsaneh from the National Office of Buddhism (NOB) as he is now defying the order shunting him to the PM's Office, which has assigned him to the deep South.
Shunted director of Buddhism defies cabinet order
Online Reporters, Published on 07/09/2017
» The former director of the National Office of Buddhism (NOB), Pol Lt Col Pongporn Pramsaneh, is defying the order shunting him to the post of inspector-general at the Prime Minister's Office, which plans to send him to the deep South.
Prayut puts faith in new NOB director
News, Post Reporters, Published on 07/09/2017
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has expressed confidence the new director of the National Office of Buddhism (NOB) will be able to solve problems plaguing the clergy and the NOB itself.
Stop the racist monks before it's too late
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 07/09/2017
» Will the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state stoke tensions between Buddhists and Muslims in the region? Definitely.
Ministry mulls how to scrap Yongyuth Alpine land order
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/09/2017
» The Interior Ministry is considering how to nullify an administrative order of former deputy permanent secretary Yongyuth Wichaidit involving the sale of monastic land for the Alpine golf course in Pathum Thani.
Cool art in hot Japan
Life, Apinan Poshyananda, Published on 06/09/2017
» Recently, embattled Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet reshuffle was seen as a desperate attempt to improve his popularity that nosedived due to scandals involving ministers. Despite the summer heat in Japanese politics and the North Korean missile tests, the "Cool Japan" policy initiated by Abe's government to revitalise Japanese contemporary culture and art has developed.