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Thais have every right to expose state faults
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 08/10/2016
» 'Are you Thai?" is a catchphrase Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha loves asking people whom he thinks give our beloved country a bad name.
Regime must get its head out of the sand
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 30/09/2016
» Ostriches bury their heads in the sand when they're scared or threatened, the myth goes. But in reality, it's an optical illusion, according to National Geographic Kids.
Safer streets ... but at what cost?
Asia focus, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 05/09/2016
» Businessman Melvin Odicta Sr, accompanied by his wife Meriam and their lawyers, showed up at the office of Interior Secretary Ismael Sueño on Aug 25 to deny accusations of his involvement in illegal drug trade.
Duterte should learn from Thai drug policy
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 02/09/2016
» At the invitation of Japan's Dokkyo University, I was in Manila earlier this week to attend a media forum where I rubbed shoulders with journalists from Southeast Asia and Japan.
Vote puts regime rivals in Catch-22
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 04/08/2016
» Opponents of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) are in a "damned if I do, damned if I don't" situation when they cast their vote in Sunday's referendum on the draft charter.
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.
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.