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News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 17/12/2019
» The dark spectre of street politics has returned to a deeply polarised society, as the ruling conservatives try to hold on to their unstable coalition over a feast of shark fin soup.
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 18/06/2019
» Is hegemony an option for a military regime on the verge of establishing a new government?
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 04/06/2019
» Go and read Animal Farm. Watch Inception too, as they may help us appreciate the multilayered paradoxes that are Thai politics today. After all the diversions, however, the reality remains that the 2017 constitution must be rewritten, or we will be forever stuck with "all votes are equal but some votes are more equal than others".
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 19/02/2019
» The anti-communist song Nak Phandin or "Useless Weight to the Land" is so loaded with hateful political baggage it could have sunk army chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong's career.
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 05/02/2019
» Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha's latest outburst challenging people to oust him if they dare is not his first display of vulgarity, but it could be one that takes the heaviest political toll on him and his attempt to return for a second term.
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 30/10/2018
» Finally, the return to democracy has begun. It's raw. It's vulgar. It's controversial. It has also unleashed a rush of polarised opinions. Police are gunning to outlaw it as more people flock to view it online, with over 21 million on YouTube for the music video in question as of yesterday mid-afternoon.
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 13/03/2018
» No matter when the next poll is held, the battle lines are already being drawn.
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 18/08/2015
» Who needs an electoral democracy when there is Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's "roadmap"?
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 23/06/2015
» Maybe it's the natural swing of the pendulum — what goes up must come down — and that explains why we have gone from fight-to-the-death battles against inequality a few years ago, to high-minded campaigns for national reform last year, to struggles against overpriced lotteries, motorcycle racers and the age-old question of whether casinos should be allowed to operate legally in Thailand now.
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 24/03/2015
» Singapore's late founding father Lee Kuan Yew was a leader who did not mince his words, especially after he stood down as prime minister in 1990.