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Poll is a test of courage
Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/01/2026
» Thailand has now entered election campaign mode, with barely a month before the next general election takes place on Feb 8.
Wallet fog fails to lift
Oped, Editorial, Published on 19/04/2024
» The government's announcement on the details of its digital wallet scheme on April 10 was meant to boost the popularity of both the Srettha Thavisin administration, as well as the Pheu Thai Party.
Spend crisis fund wisely
News, Editorial, Published on 04/05/2020
» In an attempt to keep the economy alive, the government has come up with a plan to spend 400 billion baht by June to boost the economy at the grassroots level.
Death penalty taints the record
News, Editorial, Published on 14/10/2018
» Thailand has missed a chance to be part of the world majority in marking the international day against the death penalty this week after it carried out the execution of a young convict in June amid high publicity.
No need for new ministry
News, Editorial, Published on 07/07/2018
» The cabinet this week seemed to know where the problems with Thailand's higher education institutes lie. But they have not pressed the right button in approving a proposal to set up a new ministry of higher education, innovation, research and science.
Debating the death penalty
News, Editorial, Published on 20/06/2018
» The Corrections Department has opened the raw wound of capital punishment once again.
New feast for graft gremlin
News, Editorial, Published on 07/04/2018
» Starting this month, residents of more than 83,000 villages and communities nationwide, including in Bangkok, have been brainstorming development projects for which they will seek financial support under the government's Thai Niyom Yangyuen, or sustainable Thai-ism, programme.
Death penalty ineffective
News, Editorial, Published on 21/03/2018
» US President Donald Trump is exploring options including the use of capital punishment to battle a new and deadly epidemic of drug abuse. So many Americans have died while abusing the world's most powerful opioids that the outbreak has reduced average US life expectancy by two years. The trafficking of drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, fentanyl and the like has resisted standard "war on drugs" enforcement, and the US government is floundering and grasping at promised solutions.