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Ex-coup boss pushes poll
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/02/2018
» Former coup leader Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin has jumped on the election bandwagon, calling on the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to stick to its poll roadmap.
Will local polls shape next govt?
News, Published on 24/02/2018
» The cloud of uncertainty hanging over the local administrative organisation (LOA) elections could be slowly dissipating with Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam's announcement this week that the political activities ban would be lifted by June.
Bad marketing
News, Postbag, Published on 24/02/2018
» How could all five markets at the Seri Villa housing estate, Prawet, have been operating illegally, with some violating the building code as well? The markets have been operating in plain sight for years, with customers jamming streets with parked cars. BMA governor Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang is to be praised for quickly checking on the Prawet markets and vowing to review all 364 markets in Bangkok.
Pheu Thai alive and kicking in Khon Kaen
News, Published on 24/02/2018
» Khon Kaen has experienced both pros and cons from the rule of the current junta government even though the province is among the key red-shirt bastions of the Northeast.
Regime just delaying the inevitable
News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 25/02/2018
» The junta shocked the nation this past week when its puppets in the national assembly shot down all seven election commissioner candidates who were supposedly handpicked by the regime.
Sudarat lays out blueprint for Pheu Thai's return
News, Published on 25/02/2018
» Pheu Thai Party heavyweight Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan speaks her mind with Bangkok Post's Nattaya Chetchotiros about her determination to pull the party out of the mire of political conflict and her "blueprint" to steer the country forward.
Controversial ex-cop Salang dies in mall plunge
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 26/02/2018
» Former deputy national police chief Pol Gen Salang Bunnag died on Sunday after falling from the 7th floor of a shopping centre in Nonthaburi. He was 81.
Regime sets sights on axeing Pheu Thai
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 27/02/2018
» The Pheu Thai Party faces the prospect of dissolution after it was accused of allowing former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is widely believed to be its de facto leader, to control its internal affairs.
Familiar faces or rogues gallery?
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/02/2018
» The entire wall is covered with faces -- a zoo of faces, if you will, each of them caged by a square frame. Naturally, upon entering Artist+Run Gallery visitors engage in a guess-who game: these are familiar faces of politicians, celebrities, athletes, monks and coupmakers, and yet some of them aren't instantly identifiable. Is that the government spokesman? From which coup? Who's that pretty face? Is that reddish thing Thaksin Shinawatra? That's easy -- it's Aung San Suu Kyi.
Sibling sightings part of political PR game
News, Soonruth Bunyamanee, Published on 28/02/2018
» The recent sightings of two former prime ministers, Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck, in many countries in the region are not a coincidence. Rather, they mark a ramping up of their power game.