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Dark clouds hover as political heat rises
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 06/03/2021
» Three members of the cabinet and several others were given jail sentences last week for their roles in toppling the Yingluck Shinawatra government.
Dubious reasons for extending decree
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 25/07/2020
» As expected, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has decided to extend the state of emergency for another month in response to the recommendation of its sub-committee on national security.
Army stuck protecting and serving itself
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 27/06/2020
» In news photos, Thanet Anantawong was dwarfed by soldiers who surrounded him. The diminutive man was 25 years old when the arms of the military snatched him for saying bad things about them.
Unequal justice system favours conflict
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 22/02/2020
» On June 28 last year, four men stepped off two motorcycles near an intersection in the Bangkok suburb of Min Buri. They approached a young man in a white shirt with baseball bats in hand and began to beat him, leaving him with severe injuries, before speeding off on their vehicles.
Haze crisis a symptom of state of failures
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 25/01/2020
» The current air pollution crisis is just one of many symptoms of a system going haywire. The pollution crisis has been an annual occurrence for the past several years. Every dry season, we brace ourselves for the onslaught of toxic smog caused by exhaust fumes, construction dust, forest fires, and fires deliberately set on pre- or post-harvest fields.
To reform police, let's start with the military
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 27/01/2017
» The Thai police are not in a good mood these days, not after finding unflattering headlines about them plastered around.
The politics of 'commission' payments
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/04/2016
» Corruption and Thailand are not exactly synonymous. But one can say they have co-existed for a very long time and at almost all levels of Thai society.
Centralising power won't solve plague of corruption
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/09/2014
» ML Panadda Diskul stirred up a hornet's nest when he suggested that some local administrations could not be trusted to spend taxpayers' money.