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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 Time magazine with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on the cover.
Art of the graft
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 03/06/2018
» Coup leader Gen (Ret) Prayut Chan-o-cha first mentioned his programme concerning corruption in late May, 2014, not long after seizing power. It was so long ago that there wasn't even a National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). It was still called the National Peace and Order Maintaining Council (NPOMC).
Learning to speak govt's language
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/08/2017
» The Newspeak is the Oldspeak. The New Testament is the Old Commandments. When they say the clock strikes 13, it means the clock strikes 13. The writing isn't in the law but on the wall.
Double-edged sword called Section 44
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 06/03/2017
» At first, the interim charter's Section 44 appears like a hidden sword that a knight in shining armour brings out only to fight a justifiable cause. Indeed, Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha makes us believe so. Power and force will be used when necessary and applied constructively, we are told.
Thaksin raps coup 'masterminds'
Published on 22/05/2015
» Thaksin Shinawatra has claimed that privy counsellors worked behind the scenes in supporting the protests that culminated with the ousting of his sister Yingluck's government by the military.
Local conflict may be behind the Koh Samui bombing
Wassana Nanuam, Published on 12/04/2015
» The car bomb at the Central Festival shopping centre on Koh Samui late Friday night might have been caused by a local business or political conflict, according to a report from the government committee on solving problems in the southern border provinces.
Security tightened as Samui bombers sought
Published on 11/04/2015
» Authorities have tightened security measures across the country after a car bomb rocked a Koh Samui shopping mall at the start of the busy Songkran holiday.
The NCPO's big-stick blunder
News, Published on 17/11/2014
» The mutual understanding and respect for each other's roles between the media and the military during the transition period seem to have reached breaking point after the unpleasant incident last week at the Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS) television station.
Giving it another try
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 19/04/2011
» The DSI seems determined to put red-shirt leaders in jail despite having failed before. Will lese majeste charges succeed this time?
More "new" discoveries
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 09/12/2010
» A new series of photos of the violence surrounding the ending of red-shirt protest last man has been widely distributed on the internet. As usual, it's hard to know what to believe.