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Tower project 'suspicious'
News, Editorial, Published on 01/07/2017
» The Prayut Chan-o-cha government's decision to approve an observation tower that will make use of a water-front land plot belonging to a state agency has raised public suspicions, which is understandable.
China must stop meddling
News, Editorial, Published on 30/06/2017
» Upon his arrival in Hong Kong yesterday afternoon, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged that his government would support the territory's economic development and improvement of people's lives and that he "wishes Hong Kong can once again achieve splendour".
TIP report fails to budge
News, Editorial, Published on 29/06/2017
» In releasing the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, the US State Department has maintained Thailand's Tier 2 Watchlist status which means the country is not doing enough to combat this serious crime.
Off-putting celebration
News, Editorial, Published on 27/06/2017
» The ruling National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has done itself no favours in the last few days. Its treatment of the June 24 anniversary of the 1932 revolution was a self-inflicted shot to the foot. The arrest of a pro-democracy activist was self-defeating. The appalling decision to block a YouTube video clip of Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator has once again put Thailand on the world's media front pages -- as a laughing stock.
Pursuing a lost war
News, Editorial, Published on 26/06/2017
» Monday's annual event in Ayutthaya marks a great setback in a campaign to bring sanity to the 46-year-old "global war on drugs" instigated by ex-US president Richard Nixon. Officials will stage their usual torching of tonnes of drugs seized in raids, highway searches, street-corner arrests and home invasions. But for the first time in years they will be working under orders to step up the suppression. The prime minister "expects to see better results", meaning more arrests in the so-called war that that was lost years ago.
Police reform in sorry state
News, Editorial, Published on 17/06/2017
» Allegations about position buying in the police force, which have drawn widespread criticism, reinforce the need for urgent reform of the "boys in brown".
City in ruins, IS still a threat
News, Editorial, Published on 13/06/2017
» The disgraceful story of Marawi City in the southern Philippines is an embarrassment to the country's president, Rodrigo Duterte. But it is a threat to Asean neighbours, including Thailand. Southeast Asia today is not only a target of the Islamic State (IS) but an actual threat which could, and should, have been avoided.
OAG fails public on subs
News, Editorial, Published on 25/05/2017
» The decision of the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) earlier this week to endorse the Royal Thai Navy's controversial submarine procurement project came as a major disappointment.
Hold the birthday cake
News, Editorial, Published on 22/05/2017
» The military regime of former army commander Prayut Chan-o-cha and his junta turn three today. Champagne and birthday cake aren't on the menu. The main achievement in 2014 of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) was to stop the street protests and occasionally deadly violence of clashing political beliefs. Three years on, that is still the regime's top accomplishment. Gen Prayut promised to address and solve root problems but has made no progress in either.
Police chief owes us an explanation
News, Editorial, Published on 14/05/2017
» While anyone who launched the bomb blasts targeting civilians at a Big C Supercenter in Pattani province that resulted in at least 61 injuries last Tuesday must be condemned, security officers have to be held responsible over what seemed to be their lax operations.