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Go somewhere else!
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 12/01/2011
» The business community in the Ratchaprasong intersection area has had enough of red-shirt political rallies, saying they have caused huge losses.
Is Pracha Wiwat a populist policy?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 30/12/2010
» Today's article is a letter to the editor from Thailand's Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij answering critics of the government's Pracha Wiwat policy.
The waiting game
Database, Published on 29/12/2010
» The big news in Thailand in 2010 was 3G phone service, or rather the lack of it; but everyone knows that; first, though, the really big news in Thailand that almost no one noticed was that one Thai in 10 is now on Facebook, the social network announcing at year's end that it has 6.5 million registrations from the kingdom; in fact, Thailand was one of the world's fastest growing markets for the only network that had a movie made about it in 2010; for several years, Thais up to and including Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva had scorned the US-centric networks to give their loyalty to Hi5, but they threw Hi5 under the bridge in 2010.
The vocabulary of political conflict
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 27/12/2010
» The ongoing political conflict has been a daily topic in the Bangkok Post for the past several years and there is a whole set of vocabulary that we have seen again and again.
One born every minute
Database, Published on 15/12/2010
» The cabinet decided that instead of raising the bridge, it would lower the water; by an unknown vote, the ministers voted to tell the Industry Minister to lower the standards that make ID cards so darned smart, and accept dumber ones; the thing is that the Ministry of Internet Censorship in Thailand (MICT) has already ordered 26 million of blank not-so-smart cards, and, well, paid for them; the Industry Ministry wants smart cards, not partly smart ones, and rejected them; c'mon, said Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and some supporters - take these ones that are almost smart enough; if you believe that a lot of money for a certain political party is at stake in the smart-card contract - double the amount if they have to be reprinted by the heavily connected contractors V Smart Joint Venture - you are smarter than any ID card.
Pay increases for lawmakers under attack
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 14/12/2010
» Proposed pay increases for lawmakers are generating strong protests. Politicians don’t work hard enough to deserve a pay rise, people say.
Government parties on top
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 13/12/2010
» Coalition parties keep their seats in yesterday's by-elections on a bad day for the opposition.
Sunday battlegrounds
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 11/12/2010
» Former ministers face tough battles in Sunday's by-elections.
Democrats survive
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 30/11/2010
» The Democrat Party survives and Abhisit Vejajjiva keeps his job as prime minister, but the technical nature of the Constitution Court’s decision fails to satisfy. Even Democrats sounded uneasy yesterday.
Tolerance of corruption
Jon Fernquest, Published on 29/11/2010
» Citizens who won't tolerate corruption anymore, as in the case of Hong Kong over 50 years ago, may be the essential ingredient in fighting corruption.