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Educational inequality in Thailand: The challenge
Jon Fernquest, Published on 31/05/2017
» As long as focus is on smartest students in a few select schools, educational inequality & low test scores for the country overall will be the result.
Premocracy 2.0 in the 2010s?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 05/04/2016
» In the 1980s General Prem shared power with politicians, delegated economics to technocrats & was untainted by corruption, can it work again?
Bombing aftermath confusion: Outsider most likely, domestic insider unlikely
Jon Fernquest, Published on 28/08/2015
» Chulalongkorn University expert takes close look at bombing: huge risk & no reward for domestic bomber, if outsider need close cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies.
Thailand's Yingluck Shinawatra faces trial and political ruin
Jon Fernquest, Published on 18/05/2015
» Threat of Yingluck prosecution to keep Shinawatra clan subdued, if forces loyal to her brother Thaksin mobilize against coup, "the noose will tighten on her," Chulalongkorn politics expert believes.
Thailand's draft constitution of 2015
Jon Fernquest, Published on 28/04/2015
» New constitution does seek democratic rule different from past with citizen empowerment, end to corruption, social justice & bridge of social divide, but modified 1997 charter might be better. Thitinan Pongsudhirak's analysis.
What will happen next in Thai politics? (from the editorial pages)
Jon Fernquest, Published on 09/12/2013
» Experts in Thai politics explain what is happening & provide a possible scenario of events after the protests of December 9th.
Energy dependence on Burma
Jon Fernquest, Published on 17/11/2010
» An energy dependence on natural gas from Burma looms in Thailand's future. The time to start planning is now.