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NACC must explain
Oped, Editorial, Published on 15/10/2021
» The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is facing questions about its handling of a probe involving a public figure close to the powers-that-be.
Generals don't know tourism
Oped, Editorial, Published on 18/04/2020
» The disastrous effects of Covid-19 on Thailand's tourism call for a shake-up in the industry and associated policy support from the government and parliament. The Senate also wants to contribute to a tourism revival, but the formal appointment on Thursday of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's younger brother to sit on its tourism committee is likely only to have further pushed the public's confidence in it to the edge of the abyss.
Senate bows to cronyism
News, Editorial, Published on 08/05/2019
» Cronyism and nepotism have finally taken centre stage in Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha's selection of senators, as many critics feared.
Scandal needs closer watch
News, Editorial, Published on 03/12/2018
» It has been a year since Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon showed off his diamonds and a costly watch too ostentatiously to miss. It occurred at Government House as ministers gathered for a portrait-photoshoot of the "Prayut 5" cabinet. Gen Prawit raised his hand to shield his eyes from the sun, his cuff shot up, and Bangkok Post photographer Chanat Katanyu framed and caught the display of costly bling in a now-classic photo.
NACC breaks another vow
News, Editorial, Published on 07/08/2018
» The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has reached a crucial fork in the road. Soon, it will have to provide the public with the facts it has uncovered in the probe of the undocumented luxury watches worn by Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon. Alternatively, it will continue to stonewall. This choice will inform the public that the NACC is a weak organisation, completely unwilling to speak truth to power and lacking the fortitude even to bring about the promise that brought Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha to the premiership.
ACT speaks righteously
News, Editorial, Published on 18/07/2018
» Hats off to the Anti-Corruption Organisation of Thailand (ACT) for its combination request-rebuke over the country's two biggest cases of graft. This group quite properly took the National Anti-Corruption Commission to task. The NACC has fulfilled neither its duty to the constitution nor its obligation to the public. It has convinced everyone it is dragging its collective feet on the cases, on purpose. ACT is quite properly calling the NACC to act more responsibly.
PM drops ball in graft fight
News, Editorial, Published on 05/03/2018
» Corruption has hit what is surely one of the lowest points ever in the country. Credible reports have highlighted the low crime of state employees stealing from the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country. When the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) confirms the breath-taking details around the end of the month, it will be a shocking and a sad day. As the head of a civil society group said last week, the welfare embezzlement scandal indicates huge failures by both the current government and the moribund anti-corruption groups it appointed.
NACC loses all credibility
News, Editorial, Published on 26/02/2018
» The sad saga of Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon and his rich collection of wristwatches has passed into farce. The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has used up its last crumb of credibility. The NACC had announced that its third and final deadline for the defence minister to account for the watches would be March 2. But without any explanation, the NACC president amended that. As of now, there is no deadline for Gen Prawit to report.