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Application of logic needed in Covid battle
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 12/01/2021
» It's not easy being a national Covid-19 taskforce in a country ruled by an ultra-conservative government driven by cumbersome bureaucracy and a daily dose of hypocrisy.
Why haven't we learnt anything from our past?
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/06/2019
» As anti-monarchy accusations fly and self-serving coalition politics becomes the name of the game, Thai politics has arrived at another critical junction.
We've all had to bargain with a 'friend of Choke'
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/05/2019
» What is the difference between a chief justice who refused to show his driving licence to a policeman claiming he was a friend of the officer's boss and a prime minister who justifies refuses to discuss how the 250 senators were selected by saying people should treat him with respect?
Can safety standards be salvaged?
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 20/11/2018
» Are we supposed to be in shock? Or has shoddiness become the standard for investigations into major accidents so there is no need to feel perturbed?
Grumpy PM no martyr for progress
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 12/06/2018
» Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is grumpy and has been for the past week, almost four years actually. What with his lamenting that he is all too human, that people should respect the premiership or how he could have left the country in a civil war had he not staged the May 22 coup.
A land where the law is too easily bought
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 13/02/2018
» A photo showing fugitive former prime ministers Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra chilling out in Beijing? The alleged poaching of a rare black panther in a wildlife sanctuary by Italian-Thai Development Plc (ITD) president Premchai Karnasuta? The absurdity of a deputy premier insisting on his virtuousness in order to carry on in his job even though he was caught "borrowing" almost 30 million baht worth of luxury watches from his businessman friends without informing the relevant authority?
Chuvit's next move
Life, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 20/01/2017
» Chuvit Kamolvisit walked into the top floor suite in his hotel on Sukhumvit and suddenly with no words of greeting or introduction launched into a rapid-fire monologue as if he were hosting a talk show.
Yingluck fine hurts public investment
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 27/09/2016
» Make no mistake, the rice-pledging scheme run by former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was a public policy disaster. It was ill-conceived and recklessly implemented. Still, to force Ms Yingluck to pay for losses allegedly incurred by her government's policy seems unfair.
Thailand's justice system is crumbling
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/06/2016
» Whether it is the proposal to de-list methamphetamine as a dangerous narcotic, the failed attempt to arrest influential money laundering suspect Phra Dhammajayo, the apparently illegal possession of a brown hornbill by billionaire Vikrom Kromadit or the use of Section 44 to roll out a 15-year free education policy instead of 12 years as proposed in the draft constitution, these diverse occurrences point to the same malaise: The country's justice system is crumbling.
A new order needs to rise from the ashes
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 08/03/2016
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