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Submarine deal has no mandate
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 30/04/2017
» Over the next 24 hours we all are going to hear the Royal Thai Navy come clean with its procurement procedure for the secretly negotiated deal to procure three submarines -- and I for one am not holding my breath to hear anything earth-shattering.
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Israel gives our military a lesson
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 07/05/2017
» Sipping a glass of wine, I noticed a strange sticker on a phone cover that read "Warning, Israeli Air Force Accelerator, Disruption Ahead", prompting me to start a conversation with a young gentleman sitting near me in Tel Aviv.
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Airline saga stirs social media power
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 16/04/2017
» The world is talking about how a paying passenger of Asian origin was mistreated on his flight from Chicago because an airline needed to clear up space for four of its crew members.
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Rethink due on laws of surrogacy
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 23/04/2017
» The recent arrest of a 25-year-old man trying to smuggle a yet to be determined substance into Vientiane, Laos, is a case that highlights the need for laws to be more comprehensive when they are passed.
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Aditya Birla affirms Thai base, looks to China
Business, Umesh Pandey, Published on 24/04/2017
» Aditya Birla Group, a leading India-based industrial conglomerate, says it will continue to expand in Thailand as well as the region, especially in China, to maintain its dominant position in the industries it operates.
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Army needs to learn to be neutral
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 26/03/2017
» The Prayut Chan-o-cha government's plans to forge reconciliation in the country seem to be falling flat after the Pheu Thai party came out to denounce the committee put in charge of the process.
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Military must accept the obvious
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 02/04/2017
» The Central Administrative Court on Friday ruled the military junta's moves to take away the three passports held by the former Education Minister, Chaturon Chaisang, was a "serious violation" of the fundamental rights of the key leader of the previous government.
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PM's magic wand now redundant
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 09/04/2017
» Thailand's 20th constitution was promulgated on Thursday with a fanfare that most Thais have not seen in their lifetime. It was a much-needed lifeline for the never-ending promises of the military junta to bring the country back to a democratic system.
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The failings of absolute power
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 12/03/2017
» Images of joyous disciples and monks were visible in the wee hours yesterday at the sprawling campus of Wat Phra Dhammakaya in Pathum Thani's Klong Luang district after Thailand's premier investigative agency -- the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) -- and the military government failed to find the elusive monk.
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Valuable lessons from falling ranking
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 19/03/2017
» Many of my friends were excited to see their universities continue to rule the charts in Thailand when the annual ranking of universities in Asia was announced late last week. The jubilation of those graduating from the likes of Mahidol, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) or Chulalongkorn University was all good, but little did anyone appreciate that all of these revered institutions actually saw their rankings slip from the previous survey.
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