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When two sets of rules spell double trouble
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 27/03/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha may want to tread carefully in exercising his special power under Section 44 to serve his increasingly arbitrary and unpredictable decisions. These have proven even more erratic recently, especially after he invoked Section 44 to fire Election Commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn last week.
Gaffe-prone govt writing own finale
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 12/12/2017
» How many let-them-eat-cake moments do you think the military regime can suffer from before it arrives at an emperor-wears-no-clothes finale?
Tribalism lets the blind lead the blind
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 26/09/2017
» It comes in a package. A coup that is not a coup. Airport seizures that are retroactively described as self-imposed closures by the authorities themselves. An act of forcing freshmen to strip naked and simulate sex acts is explained away as a rite of passage and bonding activity.
High-profile flights turn up heat on justice
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 05/09/2017
» If you want to mark the calendar, the date is Sept 3, and the year 2027.
Regime builds one-way road to disunity
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/08/2017
» Whether what we are witnessing falls along the lines of Great Expectations, The Great Escape or The Great Dictator is probably still up for interpretation.
Yingluck rice ruling to open old wounds
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 25/07/2017
» Will former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra go to jail for alleged malfeasance in administering the rice-pledging scheme?
Media turn murder into one big circus
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 06/06/2017
» There is extreme hatred and unchecked condemnation, horror and loathing. Emotions definitely run high as the karaoke girl murder case keeps unfolding while questions about the standard of the police's work, their treatment of murder suspects and the country's criminal justice process in general explode.
Comical drive to rein in FB turns sinister
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 23/05/2017
» Having failed to force Facebook to shut down more than 100 lese majeste pages, Thai authorities are going after small-fish users and viewers in the country in what appears to be another comical campaign of intimidation.
Biggest threat to regime is its own thick skin
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 02/05/2017
» The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) may have been hit hard by the multiple blowback from the pickup truck rule debacle, the secretive submarine deal and the repressive media bill, but what could do the regime in is its political insensitivity.
Silence on Pai bodes ill for rule of law
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 24/01/2017
» We have the right to remain silent, all of us. The longer we keep mum about the case of Jatupat "Pai Dao Din" Boonpattararaksa, however, the higher the risk that faith in the law and the justice system will decline.