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Mottoes key to keeping public order
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 02/12/2014
» Mottoes are a necessary tool to keep people fixed in a state of happiness, to give them a moral guideline and make them feel there is a form of order in an otherwise messy world. A couple of cool and catchy slogans can go a long way.
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Sink the sub proposal
News, Editorial, Published on 05/07/2016
» The Royal Thai Navy is once again pressing to buy three submarines from China. The defence minister, not at all surprisingly, supports this new military upgrade. It would be a terrible mistake and misuse of 36 billion baht, or possibly more, of the public's money. Realistically, the only thing preventing an almost instant purchase is Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. He has put off this scheme before, and should do so again, but more forcefully.
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Searching for sanity
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 28/05/2017
» It now is pretty much confirmed by all available sources that the world is nuts. Last week was just more proof piling up.
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Failing over rights, failing ourselves
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 08/09/2017
» As they posed before the media cameras, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen were all smiles. According to their official statement, they were both looking for joint prosperity as the two countries aim to boost cooperation.
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Vulgarity on display
News, Postbag, Published on 09/12/2017
» While watching some poor old half-naked, badly deformed saleng struggle to push his empty ramshackle cart along the road this morning, I thought of the vulgar ostentatious display of wealth by our clearly insecure deputy prime minister this week.
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Leave Yingluck be
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018
» Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.
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Taking down the West
News, Postbag, Published on 06/02/2018
» Re: "Media microphones", (Postbag, Feb 3).
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Coining a catchy slogan
News, Postbag, Published on 08/04/2018
» Almost a year ago the disappearance of the memorial plaque of the 1932 Revolution was described in these pages as being both "hilarious and deeply sinister".
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'Time' for PM to answer the big question
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 26/06/2018
» Give the military regime some credit. At least it has the sense not to ban the Asia edition of <i>Time</i> magazine with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on the cover.
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Set in stone
News, Postbag, Published on 05/01/2019
» Re: "Government admits election delay", (BP, Jan 4).
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