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Poll agency does fine job of not inspiring trust
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 19/03/2019
» As we enter the last leg of the election, the winner is yet to emerge but it has become clear who is the biggest loser -- the Election Commission (EC).
Dictator's new clothes a very ill fit
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/12/2018
» The prime minister is wearing no clothes, and somebody must tell him.
Legal system is a hoax on the public
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 04/09/2018
» The death was barely noticeable. The news about it was brief, published almost two weeks after the event. The father of the man who plunged to his death from the 8th-floor window of the Criminal Court Building last month after hearing the lower court had dismissed the case involving the murder of his son died out of grief.
'Fake food' debate shows social schism
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 14/08/2018
» What should be the true taste of phad thai?
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.
Doi Suthep could spell end for regime
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 01/05/2018
» The Doi Suthep housing and office project has pushed Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha and his military regime into a tight corner where his attempt to return to power could be at stake.
Doi Suthep exposes state hypocrisy
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 10/04/2018
» It's a rare reversal of roles but the judiciary seems to have found itself on the other side of the bench in the court of public opinion with its decision to build a one-billion-baht housing and office project at the foot of the forested Doi Suthep mountain in Chiang Mai.
Grand plans mean little to the poor
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/11/2017
» If the government is not suffering from irrational exuberance, then something must have gone amiss. For it's bothersome to see Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak declare there will be no poor people in Thailand next year, only to be met with the scathing response: "Of course, all the poor will have died by then."
Rocker Toon's noble cause is just too great
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 07/11/2017
» There is no question the Toon Bodyslam's cause is the most robust in town at the moment. The scrawny rocker set off on a charity super-marathon less than a week ago and people are already screaming he should be prime minister.
Floods under control? Don't buy the hype
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 17/10/2017
» Will Bangkok see major floods again? That question has been on the mind of many city dwellers after an overnight deluge last weekend gave rise to rumours that more heavy rain is on the way plus a familiar yet unsettling warning for people to move their belongings to higher ground.