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Sex scandal casts a shadow over Jurin
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 26/04/2022
» 'Taking more responsibility than necessary can amount to an act of irresponsibility."
Elite hide behind phoney shield of 'patriotism'
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 03/12/2019
» Why can't people hate their own country?
We've all had to bargain with a 'friend of Choke'
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/05/2019
» What is the difference between a chief justice who refused to show his driving licence to a policeman claiming he was a friend of the officer's boss and a prime minister who justifies refuses to discuss how the 250 senators were selected by saying people should treat him with respect?
PM wrong to demand love and respect
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 07/08/2018
» Before long, Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha could be crooning, "You Must Love Me". He could force us to listen to him all day every day. Or he could issue yet another draconian Section 44 order demanding the populace to show him "respect" wherever he goes.
Grumpy PM no martyr for progress
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 12/06/2018
» Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is grumpy and has been for the past week, almost four years actually. What with his lamenting that he is all too human, that people should respect the premiership or how he could have left the country in a civil war had he not staged the May 22 coup.
When two sets of rules spell double trouble
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 27/03/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha may want to tread carefully in exercising his special power under Section 44 to serve his increasingly arbitrary and unpredictable decisions. These have proven even more erratic recently, especially after he invoked Section 44 to fire Election Commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn last week.
Any excuse will do in an anarchic state
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 27/02/2018
» Because we are poor. Because we are in a rush. Because other people also cut corners. Because these people are our brothers and sisters, or friends.
Tribalism lets the blind lead the blind
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 26/09/2017
» It comes in a package. A coup that is not a coup. Airport seizures that are retroactively described as self-imposed closures by the authorities themselves. An act of forcing freshmen to strip naked and simulate sex acts is explained away as a rite of passage and bonding activity.
High-profile flights turn up heat on justice
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 05/09/2017
» If you want to mark the calendar, the date is Sept 3, and the year 2027.
Media turn murder into one big circus
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 06/06/2017
» There is extreme hatred and unchecked condemnation, horror and loathing. Emotions definitely run high as the karaoke girl murder case keeps unfolding while questions about the standard of the police's work, their treatment of murder suspects and the country's criminal justice process in general explode.