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Rally will be litmus test for both sides
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 17/04/2014
» All eyes will be watching what happens over the weekend after the red shirts kick off their rally Friday to support their embattled leader Yingluck Shinawatra.
Embassy gets in groove for Songkran with YouTube hit
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 11/04/2014
» Different foreign envoys have different ways of impressing the Thai people, but the US embassy is seemingly never short of creative new gimmicks for achieving this goal.
Experts lash PDRC’s sovereign power bid
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 09/04/2014
» Academics have derided anti-government protesters' plans to "reclaim sovereign power" as absurd, while warning that threats by pro-government groups to mobilise after Songkran were adding to the risk of bloodshed.
For change, speak out and be counted
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/04/2014
» Tired of political stagnation? Don’t be, please. Your detachment from politics will only do harm to your own future. We cannot allow anyone, any single group to chart the future path of this society, in particular a group of people who brand themselves “representatives of the great mass of people”, as well as those regular faces who always make their way to parliament.
Get out of the way and let us form a govt
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 11/03/2014
» As the Constitution Court is to decide this week if the Feb 2 election is valid, I’ve realised how well-educated, elitist members of Thai society cannot connect to the majority of people regarding their real aspirations and needs.
Scholars: Rice bonds won't help
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 22/02/2014
» The caretaker government still has some viable options to raise money for long-overdue payments to rice farmers but it must act decisively, say experts.
US, watchdog voice concerns over poll block
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 28/01/2014
» The United States and the regional poll watchdog have expressed grave concerns over anti-government protesters' blockade of polling units and violence during advance voting for the election on Sunday.
Festival of Healing
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/01/2014
» The Narathiwat district of Rueso has a reputation _ undeserved, some would say _ for being a hotspot of insurgency. Home to some 60,000 people, it tends to be categorised by the security forces as "troublesome", lumped together with neighbouring districts like Bacho, Yi-ngo, Rangae and Si Sakhon as well as Raman and Bannang Sata in the adjoining province of Yala. All of these areas have become notorious over the past few decades as bases for armed separatists operating in the far South _ or have been labelled as such by outsiders.
Pro-election scholars: Respect one-man-one-vote
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 22/12/2013
» Pro-election scholars on Sunday called on anti-government demonstrators to respect the principle of one-man-one-vote to maintain democracy in Thailand.
Red-shirts mourn loss, look forward to election
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 13/12/2013
» Sorrow and solidarity marked the cremation of the third red-shirt supporter killed in political violence earlier this month.