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Pai's detention is threatening to backfire
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 10/02/2017
» When you put a lid on a pot of boiling water, you know what's going to happen. The steam will build up pressure inside the pot and pretty soon some steam will escape along a crack. Absent any crack, soon you'll see an explosion.
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To reform police, let's start with the military
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 27/01/2017
» The Thai police are not in a good mood these days, not after finding unflattering headlines about them plastered around.
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Bad sign from climate change sceptic Trump
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 25/11/2016
» So Donald Trump, the soon-to-be American president, is backtracking on his position about climate change.
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The vision and illusion of Thailand 4.0
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 23/12/2016
» It seems like all of a sudden all we hear from everyone that counts in and out of government is "Thailand 4.0". Its economic model sounds so modern, so hip.
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Farms provide crucial economic safety net
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/11/2016
» The only qualifications I can claim as a rice expert is that I have been eating rice for more than six decades and I know a rice plant when I see one.
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Sweet tastes of freedom often short-lived
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 14/10/2016
» <i>Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose</i>. That French expression could well be a Thai political saying.
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Promenade spat spoils riverside mood
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 16/09/2016
» An episode in the saga known as the Chao Phraya riverside promenade development just ended when its consultants decide to scrap their design of the plan's central landmark.
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Thais should become less pragmatic
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 12/08/2016
» So the circus-like referendum came and went. And the vote came down decidedly on the side of the junta government.The constitution drafters and supporters are understandably ecstatic. Their work in drafting the country's supreme law will not go to waste, and, with the public mandate on its side, the junta can now carry on with its national reform agenda and returning the country to a democratic path.
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Time to end our 'rubbish' behaviour
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 02/09/2016
» Koh Samui is an island paradise. But if you have ever looked behind the paradise, what you find may be mountains of rubbish.It was reported early in the week that local authorities there have been struggling to deal with some 250,000 tonnes of rubbish. The landfill on the island has overflowed, with simply no room for more.
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The circus is coming to town
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 29/07/2016
» A grand circus is coming to town with the one-and-only show to take place just over a week from now. It has a nifty way of advertising itself, or at least that's how the circus master has planned it, I suspect.
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