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GT200 scam tests regime's mettle
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 23/06/2016
» The scandal of GT 200 has come back to haunt the Thai military again after a British court ordered a Briton serving a 10-year jail term for making bogus bomb detectors to forfeit cash and assets worth nearly £8 million, some of which should be paid in compensation to countries that bought the fake devices, including Bahrain, Lebanon, Niger and Georgia.
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.
Exercising might is not always right
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 31/03/2016
» 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority."
Anti-graft actions speak louder than words at SEC
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 18/03/2016
» Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) again demonstrated to its state regulating peers that it is doing its job to enforce rules and regulation that ensure a level playing field in the financial markets, without empty promises and endless vows.
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.
Outcry over Sorrayuth double standards?
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 03/03/2016
» The Criminal Court ruling on Monday against Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda, arguably the country’s most popular and controversial TV news anchor, for stealing 138 million baht in advertising revenue in 2005-2006 from state broadcaster MCOT, has spurred a tense debate over whether the veteran newscaster should take a break from his screen role.
Time for a more transparent THAI
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 25/02/2016
» Despite the slew of negative articles regarding the country's troubled aviation industry published since last year, positive media reports about debt-ridden Thai Airways International Plc (THAI) have emerged over the past fortnight.
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.