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Online video postings lay bare country's political divisions
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 14/01/2014
» As political conflicts unfold on the streets of Bangkok, two short clips uploaded to YouTube yesterday illustrate the deep-seated divisions felt nationwide.
Please do the right thing, madam PM
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 03/12/2013
» Dear Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, I am not a big fan of your government, nor am I a follower of Suthep Thaugsuban's Muan Maha Prachachon, or the Greatest Mass Uprising.
Govt needs to own up to its amnesty error
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 12/11/2013
» Barbed wire, barriers and police lineups have become a familiar sight. The issues that have divided people, pitted different groups against the government and against one another are the same old ones, pivoting around former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Forget politics and fight for what's right
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 22/10/2013
» In my years of working in the news business, the most memorable press conference I have ever attended occurred right after Black May in 1992.
Getting ahead of ourselves with ICJ glory
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 23/04/2013
» Move over 400-million-baht hunk Mario "Pi Mak" Maurer. National heartthrob Nadej Kukimiya doesn't stand a chance either. This very minute, thanks to his star performance at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last week, it's the bespectacled, career diplomat Virachai Plasai who has stolen the show and shot up the celebrity ranks to become the country's hottest personality.
We need smart debate, not a muzzle
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 19/03/2013
» As soon as I learned about the cancellation of the last episode of the programme Tob Jote on the constitutional monarchy by Thai PBS, I thought about one incident.
Megaprojects yes, but cui bono?
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/01/2013
» Two trillion baht is a lot of money. It can buy about 17 Suvarnabhumi airports. Even spread over a period of seven years, which is what the government is proposing, it still amounts to spending of about 280 billion baht a year. That would be enough to buy another nine Red Line electric train routes, at an estimated 30 billion baht per line.
Bare your breasts before Kate's
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 18/09/2012
» On the subject of the publication of the topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, on the fine, often moving line between freedom of information and the right to privacy - or human dignity for that matter - I can't say it better than Helen Lewis of the New Statesman.
Reconciliation risks our own Hunger Games
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/05/2012
» Can Thailand be compared to Panem? The thought briefly crossed my mind after watching The Hunger Games earlier this year.
Nation on road to recovery after floods
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 24/02/2012
» Deputy Transport Minister Chadchart Sittiphan admits he has no excuse for last year's catastrophic flooding but says the government will do its best to make sure it will not happen again.