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Regime must give public facts,not fiction
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 26/05/2016
» Refreshed after a long-weekend break, General Prawit Wongsuwon, the "Big Brother" of the ruling National Council for Peace and Order, could not keep the "good news" to himself on Monday.
Don't run bike taxi rivals off the road
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 19/05/2016
» Like other unsolved problems this country has been facing for decades, the safety and reliability of motorcycle taxis are being addressed through authoritarian means, using nationalism and a perceived threat to national security as a pretext to ban services by foreign operators who have more innovative solutions than our inefficient and incompetent regulators.
Regime needs lesson in Leicester karma
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 05/05/2016
» On top of tactics by manager Claudio Ranieri, creativity by winger Riyad Mahrez and goals by striker Jamie Vardy, it is the moral and spiritual support by Phra Prommangkalachan, better known as Chao Khun Thongchai, that helped land 132-year-old Leicester City its fairytale Premier League triumph.
State propaganda isn't the media's job
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 10/03/2016
» Journalists across the country celebrated their big day last Saturday, National Reporter's Day, not long after TV anchorman Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda, who was sentenced to more than 13 years in jail for embezzling money from MCOT, bowed to public pressure to go off the air.
Of monks, money and (the need for proper) monitoring
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 28/01/2016
» Like water and oil, as the old Thai adage goes, monks and money are not supposed to mix.
Oppression can't triumph over dissent
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 07/01/2016
» Less than two weeks after the May 22, 2014 coup, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) handed out leaflets to Bangkokians explaining why then army commander-in-chief Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha had to topple the caretaker civilian government of Yingluck Shinawatra.
Commission's 'big catch' of CP execs deserves praise
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 04/12/2015
» The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) move to slap four top executives of CP All Plc, Thailand's biggest convenience store operator, with hefty fines for insider trading deserves a round of applause.
Stay calm and don't shoot the messenger
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 15/10/2015
» In the past week we have seen two incidents that have reflected the ostrich-like mentality of those in the military-run government -- of refusing to confront the issues that face them, whatever they may be. And both times they chose to shoot the messenger.
Wizard of Odd blasts away credibility
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 01/10/2015
» Today is the first day of retirement for Pol Gen Somyot Poompunmuang, who ended his career as national top cop with the "achievement" of the arrest of two key suspects in August's city blasts.
Should regime not have deported Uighurs?
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 03/09/2015
» While Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon and his deputy Udomdej Sitabutr are attending China's first-ever military parade to commemorate Japan's World War II surrender in Beijing today, investigators in Bangkok are busily gleaning information from two detained foreign suspects to probe their hypothesis that the deadly Erawan shrine blast was in retaliation for the deportation of over 100 Muslim Uighurs to China in July.