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Future Forward Party makes fearless stand for principles
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 19/10/2019
» The Future Forward Party's (FFP) decision to vote against the executive decree to place two important military units under royal command represented a huge risk.
Why Thanathorn makes PPRP uneasy
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 02/03/2019
» The fate of the Thai Raksa Chart Party (TRC) will be known when the Constitutional Court delivers its ruling on March 7.
Rap shines light on regime's archaic thinking
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 10/11/2018
» A couple of days ago I got over my reluctance and clicked on the new rap song on YouTube.
Tale of activist's 'stupidity' hard to swallow
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 24/03/2017
» Chaiyapoom Pasae must have been really stupid. He was a local Lahu boy. He knew where the military had set up their semi-permanent checkpoint. He had with him 2,800 tablets of ya ba, a knife and a hand grenade -- all stuff that could put him in jail.
The politics of 'commission' payments
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/04/2016
» Corruption and Thailand are not exactly synonymous. But one can say they have co-existed for a very long time and at almost all levels of Thai society.
Govt, business alliances silence locals' voices
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 31/01/2015
» The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same. Except, this time, it is even more of the same than before. Let me elaborate.
We must not let this divisive election start a civil war
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 31/01/2014
» It now appears that voting will take place this Sunday as scheduled, amid widespread fears of violence. Yingluck Shinawatra, the caretaker prime minister, has rejected a suggestion by the Election Commission to reschedule the poll to avoid violent confrontations and wasting the nearly 4-billion-baht budget needed to organise an election that everyone agrees will not result in a functioning government.
Crisis offers rare chance to restore media's integrity
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 06/12/2013
» When anti-government protesters stormed television stations to demand they broadcast news and pronouncements coming out of their gathering, their actions were roundly denounced as media intimidation.
Business must lead fight against corruption
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 08/11/2013
» It doesn't matter what you say. I say the ``all the way'' amnesty bill is good for the country in the way it has helped bring the issue of corruption into sharp focus.