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News, Editorial, Published on 22/12/2020
» The Covid-19 surge with hundreds of infections in Samut Sakhon and other provinces has come as a profound shock.
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 21/12/2020
» We are seemingly paying a high price for Covid-19 complacency.
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/05/2018
» Nobody doubts why the Crime Suppression Division police had to make the arrest of Phra Buddha Isara, the abbot of Wat Or Noi in Nakhon Pathom, before dawn of May 24 at his living quarters on the temple grounds.
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 30/03/2018
» By the time it takes place after evident foot-dragging by relevant authorities, the next election in Thailand will be unlike its precursors. There will be new parties with new policy ideas, new vote-gathering technologies and first-time voters who came of age during Thailand's political tension and polarisation more or less over the past two decades. At issue during the next poll is whether and to what extent Thailand's entrenched and endemic patronage-driven and vote-buying political system has really changed. The evidence is mixed but it is plausible that a new kind of politics will emerge not directly in the next poll but in the 2020s.
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 18/06/2017
» The government's latest bid to probe alleged corruption conspiracy of state assistance funds by former and current officials of the National Office of Buddhism (NOB) and 12 temples across the country has received great applause from the public, and this will be a big success for the government if the alleged suspects are convicted and serve jail terms for their unscrupulous actions.
News, Published on 26/04/2016
» The passing of veteran politician and former prime minister Banharn Silpa-archa deals a heavy blow to the Chartthaipattana Party.
Alan Dawson, Published on 24/01/2016
» Muang district of Pattani is one of Thailand’s loveliest provincial capitals, and of course one of its least visited, what with the inconvenient war and all.
News, Published on 01/06/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha recently decided police reform was too difficult a task and he would leave it to the next government, even though the Royal Thai Police (RTP) is struggling to retain public confidence.
News, Published on 05/11/2014
» The multiple lawsuits against British human rights defender Andy Hall came at a bad time for him and others who value free speech and the free exchange of ideas. Since the May 22 coup, martial law has put bans, restrictions and a general pause on such values. It was encouraging to note, then, that the court last week actually stepped in to halt an attempt to punish Mr Hall over a report he wrote on migrant labour.
News, Published on 03/08/2014
» It hasn’t been a great week on Thai railways. Things did not get off to the best of starts when the luxury Eastern and Oriental International Express fell off the rails on its way to Kanchanaburi.