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Charter stokes downturn
News, Editorial, Published on 02/12/2019
» The government can blame its trouble in dealing with the economic slowdown and its recent defeat in a Lower House vote on one thing -- the 2017 constitution.
Future bleak for Thai R&D
News, Editorial, Published on 21/10/2019
» On Saturday, the House of Representatives passed the first reading of the 3.2-trillion-baht budget bill for next year. However, several contentious issues raised during the debate need to be addressed by the vetting committee, particularly on education spending.
Cheaper EVs, cleaner air
News, Editorial, Published on 18/10/2019
» Let's admit it. The car culture of Thai commuters will not go away anytime soon, even though Bangkok's electric rail networks will see a lot of improvements in the coming years.
Cooperation vital to end haze crisis
News, Editorial, Published on 31/03/2019
» More than a decade after fine dust particles known as PM2.5 emerged as a health threat in Chiang Mai, the province has started to embrace a new approach that opens the doors to cooperation between state and civic sectors to tackle the problem.
Be realistic on traffic laws
News, Editorial, Published on 04/05/2018
» Over the past few weeks, there have been two proposals to regulate traffic. One was a proposal for harsher punishments for drivers blocking ambulances, and the other was a move by the Expressway Authority of Thailand (Exat) to curb speeding on expressways.
Graft sagas left undone
News, Editorial, Published on 29/09/2017
» Supoj Saplom, former permanent secretary of transport, is finally being punished for amassing unusual wealth.
Failing the graft battle
News, Editorial, Published on 28/02/2017
» From all evidence, corruption is flourishing at high levels, and for the corrupt, their crime pays, even when it is exposed. The country's top two graftbusters raised questions recently whether they deserve the description. The official anti-corruption agency operating under the constitution for 20 years admitted it is poorly organised. The unofficial but respected agency funded by Big Business displayed appalling lack of awareness.
The futility of the NACC
News, Editorial, Published on 31/01/2017
» The past two weeks have seen more details about high-level corruption emerge than any similar period in memory. There have been details of eye-watering amounts of bribery over foreign purchases of aircraft engines. Agents of the top state-run telephone and electricity suppliers received kickbacks for buying hundreds of kilometres of wire. The world's most respected graft watcher reported that 100 countries have less corruption than Thailand. Depressingly, it is clear for now that the agencies tasked with fighting corruption are dragging their feet.
We are losing the fight against graft
News, Editorial, Published on 29/01/2017
» Graft-busting agencies are expected to give a vow to identify suspects in bribery allegations implicating several Thai companies and state enterprises in recent revelations by the United Kingdom's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the United States Department of Justice.
THAI must unravel corruption claim
News, Editorial, Published on 22/01/2017
» They said corruption leaves no receipts. The damning revelation by Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) regarding alleged bribery by engineering giant Rolls-Royce to "agents of the state of Thailand and employees of THAI Airways" to influence purchases of its engines is as good as one.