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After defeat, listen to public
News, Editorial, Published on 08/09/2015
» The defeat of the proposed new constitution at its very first hurdle provides mixed emotions. It is easy to be satisfied that the National Reform Council saw off the attempt to force through sections providing for unelected senators and the highly controversial "crisis panel".
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Teaching mother tongues boosts literacy
News, Published on 08/09/2015
» As the world observes International Literacy Day today, Thailand still faces a huge challenge despite a generally high literacy rate in Thai.
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Draft charter veto leaves us all baffled
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 08/09/2015
» Viewed from whatever angle, it's baffling that the military-backed reform council voted down the draft charter which was prepared by drafters backed by the military leaders.
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Singapore looks to polls to usher in a freer society
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/09/2015
» As the powers-that-be in Thailand and Malaysia are striving to quieten opposition voices, there are signs that the leaders of Singapore, the tiny island state at the bottom of Malayan peninsula, have embraced growing dissent ahead of this week's general election.
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Education begins at home
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 08/09/2015
» Only a few days ago, a Hungarian childhood friend sent me a YouTube link of the "Hitler in Thailand" segment on Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. She was curious if its content, that Thai students used Hitler as motifs and themes, was true, to which I had to cringingly admit that it was. Then, last Friday, Coconuts Bangkok published an article discussing why it seems that international kids who grow up in Thailand don't speak Thai. It appears to be the same kind of problem that emerges from two opposite poles: that Thai-educated kids don't know anything about the Western world, and international school-educated kids don't know anything about their own country.
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Problems of populism
News, Postbag, Published on 08/09/2015
» Re: “Policies can be fixed”, (PostBag, Sept 7).
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Writing with the hand, erasing with the foot
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/09/2015
» There's an old saying,"Writing with the hand, erasing with the foot!" And it certainly describes the conduct of the 135 members of the National Reform Council in voting down the draft constitution.
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