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Lies come in many colours
News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 04/09/2012
» Since a group of political activists has used yellow to identify its movement against the administration of a former prime minister and his associates over the past half decade or so, it has become fashionable for a political movement in this country to identify itself by a colour.
Gimmicks won't bridge wealth gap
News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 04/07/2012
» Thais possess almost an unlimited supply of proverbs and sages' sayings, which they often quote to justify or rationalise what they do. One of them is this: Follow a big person, so that dogs don't bite.
The universal truth of sufficiency economy
News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 06/06/2012
» The Great Recession of 2008 has been bad for most people, with one exception perhaps _ those who write about it. As I wrote in this column on April 28, 2010, I had counted 34 books on the subject published in the United States up to that point. Many more have come out since.
Healthy GDP does not mean healthy people
News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 02/05/2012
» Last week, when I first saw the BBC news headline, "Population and consumption key to future, report says," I thought, "Here we go again." And it has panned out just the way I thought it would.
The broken, cluttered pavements theory
News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 04/04/2012
» Professor James Q Wilson passed away last month with little notice, except perhaps for those who are familiar with the "Broken Windows Theory" that he and George L Kelling proposed through an article published in the March 1982 issue of Atlantic Monthly magazine.
Some self-evident truths
News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 07/03/2012
» With apologies to the writers of the United States' Declaration of Independence, the following sentence seems to have rung in my ears every time I scanned the daily headlines or watched events unfolding on television these past few months: "These truths are held to be self-evident, that the executive branch is irresponsible, that the legislative branch is in shambles, that the judiciary branch is undependable, that Thailand is shamelessly corruptible."
From the year of fury to the year of doom?
News, Sawai Boonma, Published on 05/01/2012
» With a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hitting Japan in March, causing vast destruction and leaving nearly 20,000 people killed or missing, 2011 should register as one of the years that the four elements _ earth, air, fire and water _ had unleashed its most destructive fury.