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  • OPINION

    Open up to spur cultural revolution

    News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/06/2014

    » Alarmed by the sight of zombies stampeding to get free tickets to see the film Legend of King Naresuan 5, former Culture Minister Nipit Intarasombat, of the Democrat stripe, lamented aloud about the need for a “cultural revolution”.

  • OPINION

    Hearsay harms reform

    News, Published on 21/06/2014

    » As each day brings news of members of the board of state enterprises quitting, there is a general understanding that some kind of purge is going on.

  • OPINION

    Postbag: TIP reports not gospel

    Published on 21/06/2014

    » Today we will hear about Thailand’s Tier in America’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Never forget the TIP report is also a programme. America makes demands under TIP and countries, including Thailand, ignore their own sovereignty, and comply. TIP demands that countries change laws, speed up justice (a conflicting thought), and set aside special treatment for one class of victims that the US can never find enough of. Every TIP report whines about the need to find more victims and prosecute more traffickers and then throw away the key. But the Somaly Mam expose in the Bangkok Post on June 1 and around the world has shown us that this issue has suffered extreme exaggeration by those who need funding and by media who benefit from sensational stories. Read a few blogs about trafficking and you too will quickly learn that “facts” about trafficking often defy common sense.

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