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Sputtering populism turns up political temperature
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 26/07/2013
» As it approaches the midway point of its four-year term next month, the Yingluck Shinawatra government's broad policy platform appears to be sputtering.
Clip exposes gamut of inconvenient truths
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 19/07/2013
» The controversial audio clip that has reverberated around Thailand over the past two weeks refuses to go away. On it, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and current Deputy Defence Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapa held a wide-ranging conversation which ran the gamut from mutual acquaintances and personal virility to military promotions and Thaksin's homecoming drive through an amnesty decree.
Thailand's stalemate and uneasy accommodation
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 15/02/2013
» Thailand has regained relative calm and stability over the past year. After the worst floods in half a century subsided in early 2012, on the back of political crisis and turmoil that date back to 2005, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government has some breathing space to roll out its consumption-driven "populist" policy agenda.