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Our distorted referendum process
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/07/2016
» Great Britain's referendum to leave the EU inevitably has been compared to the upcoming referendum on the newly drafted constitution in Thailand.
NCPO underestimates activists' strength
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 18/03/2016
» Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, things get worse.
Environment under Section 44 attack
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/02/2016
» Ever since the military took power, the environment has come under constant assault on the pretext of protecting national security and accelerating national economic development.
Govt adds fuel to fire as resentment builds
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 10/07/2015
» What's all the fuss about the arrest of 14 so-called students who broke the law? Many in social media have expressed their bewilderment.
Harmful projects wipe out all of nature's hard work
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 24/04/2015
» At the Earth Summit in 1992, a 12-year-old girl stood at the podium before a roomful of international delegates and gave one of the most memorable speeches on the state of our world at the time.
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.
Onus for making peace rests with Yingluck
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 17/01/2014
» Now that caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has decided to go ahead with the Feb 2 election as scheduled, the stage is set for a full-blown confrontation between the two warring parties.
Politics must begin with idea of public service
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/03/2013
» This Sunday Bangkokians will decide who they will entrust with the responsibility of running the city for the next four years. In this election campaign more than any in recent memory, Bangkok voters appear to be having a hard time deciding who should get the job.
Car buyer scheme is shameful waste
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 21/12/2012
» Given a choice between a house and a car, what do you think most Thais who had never owned either would choose? Well, a car, of course.