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Regime's war on graft mustn't discriminate
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 14/07/2016
» A day after Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited Samut Sakhon to meet with thousands of her compatriots in the country's western fishery province amid a chaotic reception, National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) chief and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha signed an order to transfer the provincial governor and three other senior provincial officials to inactive positions with immediate effect.
Shackling students tarnishes regime image
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 07/07/2016
» The main photo on the front page of the Bangkok Post yesterday summed up the current political situation in Thailand.In the photo, a group of young men in prison garb and forced crew cuts walked barefoot with their ankles shackled from a jail van to hear a court's decision on whether to extend their detention, as requested by investigators.
GT200 scam tests regime's mettle
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 23/06/2016
» The scandal of GT 200 has come back to haunt the Thai military again after a British court ordered a Briton serving a 10-year jail term for making bogus bomb detectors to forfeit cash and assets worth nearly £8 million, some of which should be paid in compensation to countries that bought the fake devices, including Bahrain, Lebanon, Niger and Georgia.
Messengers are casualties of 'transparency'
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 16/06/2016
» On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon chaired a signing ceremony between the armed forces and agencies under the Ministry of Defence and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) pledging to perform their duties with transparency and make the military free from corruption.
Regime must give public facts,not fiction
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 26/05/2016
» Refreshed after a long-weekend break, General Prawit Wongsuwon, the "Big Brother" of the ruling National Council for Peace and Order, could not keep the "good news" to himself on Monday.
Don't run bike taxi rivals off the road
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 19/05/2016
» Like other unsolved problems this country has been facing for decades, the safety and reliability of motorcycle taxis are being addressed through authoritarian means, using nationalism and a perceived threat to national security as a pretext to ban services by foreign operators who have more innovative solutions than our inefficient and incompetent regulators.
Regime needs lesson in Leicester karma
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 05/05/2016
» On top of tactics by manager Claudio Ranieri, creativity by winger Riyad Mahrez and goals by striker Jamie Vardy, it is the moral and spiritual support by Phra Prommangkalachan, better known as Chao Khun Thongchai, that helped land 132-year-old Leicester City its fairytale Premier League triumph.
Exercising might is not always right
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 31/03/2016
» 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority."
Anti-graft actions speak louder than words at SEC
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 18/03/2016
» Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) again demonstrated to its state regulating peers that it is doing its job to enforce rules and regulation that ensure a level playing field in the financial markets, without empty promises and endless vows.
State propaganda isn't the media's job
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 10/03/2016
» Journalists across the country celebrated their big day last Saturday, National Reporter's Day, not long after TV anchorman Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda, who was sentenced to more than 13 years in jail for embezzling money from MCOT, bowed to public pressure to go off the air.