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University reform: Prayut invokes Section 44
Jon Fernquest, Published on 14/07/2016
» Chronic problems in universities to be solved: leadership conflicts, sub-standard courses, admission of too many students, lack of good governance.
Fortune-tellers & politics in Thailand
Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/07/2016
» Public figures cannot avoid fortune-tellers, observes former-PM Abhisit, but predictions for careful living, not policy. Everyone from Gen. Prayut to Thaksin uses them.
Toyota Thailand to cut 800 workers
Jon Fernquest, Published on 06/07/2016
» Voluntary layoffs with compensation & promise to be hired back within a year for contract employees, 40% of Toyota's 16,477 workers.
"Be united" song is "Not be united" song critics say
Jon Fernquest, Published on 09/06/2016
» Song urges Northerners to "not be fooled & manipulated by anyone" while "southern people love democracy & freedom" according to the song.
Loei gold mine: Soldiers-for-hire get jail
Jon Fernquest, Published on 31/05/2016
» 2-3 years in prison for Lieutenant General & Lieutenant Colonel, father & son for their role in the attack on Loei villagers protesting gold mine in their community.
Rotten crops in govt warehouses to be burned
Jon Fernquest, Published on 30/05/2016
» Casava & corn in govt warehouses since 2008 rotten or reduced to powder. Power generation may still be possible but animal feed not.
Banharn dies at 83
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 23/04/2016
» Former prime minister Banharn Silpa-archa, one of Thailand's best known and most influential politicians, died at Siriraj Hospital on Saturday. He was 83.
Premocracy 2.0 in the 2010s?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 05/04/2016
» In the 1980s General Prem shared power with politicians, delegated economics to technocrats & was untainted by corruption, can it work again?
Military given police powers
Jon Fernquest, Published on 31/03/2016
» Aimed at fighting criminals who cause trouble for the public, critics say powers too vague & could lead to abuse of power.
Showdown over Supreme Patriarch
Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/03/2016
» Phra Buddha Isara on how Wat Dhammakaya's rise to power is a problem, if power corrupts & absolute power corrupts absolutely, as the saying goes.