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Regime must prove its stance on graft
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 23/09/2016
» Being the younger brother of the junta leader and prime minister may not be the best thing in Thailand right now.
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.
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.
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.
Will US interests trump rights at Asean meet?
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 11/02/2016
» Leaders of the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have something to look forward to after Valentine's Day.
Should regime not have deported Uighurs?
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 03/09/2015
» While Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon and his deputy Udomdej Sitabutr are attending China's first-ever military parade to commemorate Japan's World War II surrender in Beijing today, investigators in Bangkok are busily gleaning information from two detained foreign suspects to probe their hypothesis that the deadly Erawan shrine blast was in retaliation for the deportation of over 100 Muslim Uighurs to China in July.
Blast victims deserve an honest answer
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 27/08/2015
» On Tuesday, 17 senior journalists and I had the "honour" of meeting a handful of army and police generals at the national police headquarters, a couple of hundred metres from the Erawan shrine where an explosion killed 20 and wounded about 130 last Monday.