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Cops bend to royalist mob
Oped, Editorial, Published on 13/11/2020
» If the scene of a yellow-clad royalist crowd trying to surround and viciously attack a car they believed was carrying Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, the ex-leader of the now-defunct Future Forward Party (FFP), at a hotel in a southern province on Wednesday, made the public concerned about the state of disorderliness in the country, the lack of police action in the case demonstrates something much worse. Indeed, the question now is if Thailand is on the verge of becoming a failed state.
Rodents are simply a master of taste
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 05/08/2018
» There was a news report last week about the arrest on the Cambodian border of a gentleman smuggling 800kgs of dead rats. Imagine that. There are plenty of ways to make money through smuggling, but bootlegging deceased rodents is not one that immediately springs to mind.
Heritage goes to hotelier but locals lose out
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 01/06/2018
» Bangkok's old Customs House, a 128-year-old vintage building by the Chao Phraya River, is going to get the facelift it so deserves.
Something rotten in handling of Mahakan Fort issue
Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 12/02/2018
» The demolition of a landmark house at Mahakan Fort in the name of conservation has stunned conservationists who have condemned the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration for a saga which began in the early 1990s.
Assassins and poison make a hard trail to follow
News, Margie Mason, Published on 20/02/2017
» A paranoid dictator's estranged brother. Two young female assassins. A crowded international airport. And a mysterious poison that kills within hours.
The big issue: The man in the yellow T-shirt
Alan Dawson, Published on 23/08/2015
» Police and the public know pretty much everything about the life of the man in the yellow T-shirt. Everything, that is, for the 20 minutes of that vile life between 6.38pm and 6.58pm last Monday.
‘Citizenfour’ rings eerily close to home
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/02/2015
» Come Oscar night tomorrow, Edward Snowden, still holed up in Moscow, won’t be joining the glitterati in Los Angeles though the film in which he is appears likely to snatch a golden doll. Unless there’s a major upset, Citizenfour should win Best Documentary, and the spectre of massive national surveillance, indiscriminate spying and the thorny scuffle to find balance between national security and the sanctity of human rights will, hopefully, steal some of the vacuous limelight that characterises the Oscars.
When less is more
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 07/07/2014
» I’m afraid I’m going to bore you once again with my tales of moving house. I don’t do this very often — move house, I mean.
The Cornell connection: sound the all-clear, please
News, Published on 11/02/2012
» At first glance, Cornell University is about as far away from Thailand as imaginable, given its commanding location on the crest of a wind-swept hill overlooking the rocky Ice Age contours of Ithaca, New York, surrounded by precipitous gorges, dairy farms, ancient forests, apple orchards, spectacular waterfalls and expansive lawns of grass.