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Thai Rath Comment
News, Published on 30/04/2012
» Last Thursday's meeting between Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda was a symbolic reconciliation that will help ease the longstanding political conflict in our country.
Thaksin has done voters a real favour
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 30/04/2012
» Has Thaksin Shinawatra made any right decisions of late that will benefit the country? Well, yes, he has. Once.
Reconciled to the obvious
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 29/04/2012
» There have been three gestures that political analysts call "symbolic moves toward reconciliation". But no, really, they are not.
Southeast Asia turns up heat on smokers
News, Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Published on 25/04/2012
» With Southeast Asia to be one community in 2015, anti-smoking campaigners are joining forces to turn the fast-growing region into a healthy area by trying to make life difficult for smokers.
Asean's diversity: Asset or liability?
News, Published on 24/04/2012
» The Association of South East Asian Nations is known not only for its huge economic clout but also for its cultural diversity. This is considered an asset in today's globalised and pluralistic world, where diversity is seen as a source of strength. Or is it?
Thai Rath columnist Tawan Songklod
News, Published on 18/04/2012
» Deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has reiterated that Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda is not his enemy.
Il Duce, come-home-now
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 15/04/2012
» Aung San Suu Kyi was imprisoned for 15 of the past 21 years in her own home. Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned several times on many different occasions in South Africa and India. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison.
Let's enjoy a safe Songkran
News, Published on 13/04/2012
» Never mind that fuel prices have jumped again or that busloads of red-clad followers of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra are streaming across the borders with Laos and Cambodia to greet him or even that the National Happiness Index has taken a dip due to rising commodity prices and the situation in the South.
Oxford is no cause for shame
News, Published on 08/04/2012
» Songkran Grachangnetara is yet another columnist who criticised the Democrats when we were in government and now finds himself compelled to continue to pick on us (see ''Some things Thailand can really do without'' in yesterday's Bangkok Post) even though we are now in the opposition. Nevertheless, I will take as a compliment that he clearly feels it constructive to give us time and attention, and assume that he sees little fault with the present government compared to that of the Democrats.
Liberty and justice for who?
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 08/04/2012
» So when it is a societal norm for one man to crawl to serve another, how can there be freedom and justice in such a society?