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The problems with impeachment
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 16/11/2014
» As state agencies weigh corruption charges against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra over the rice-pledging scheme, legal experts are questioning the legality of an impeachment.
Farming out new ideas, or replanting old seeds?
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 02/11/2014
» The Prasert Singsuksri family has farmed rice for four generations in Ayutthaya's Bang Sai district, where a typical pioneer farm during his grandfather's era would start out with 5-10 rai of land.
Is Khon Kaen the new model of justice?
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 24/08/2014
» At the Khon Kaen Central Prison at 3.30pm on Thursday, seven inmates gathered in a 2m-wide room behind a thick glass window to have half an hour with their lawyers. Wearing light brown prison uniforms, the inmates are among the 26 suspects allegedly involved in the so-called "Khon Kaen model" of red-shirt resistance.
The isan 'Problem'
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 10/08/2014
» Throughout history, Isan has seen "revolts", "mad people's movements", "segregation bids" and "communist domination". Anthropologist Charles Keyes writes in his book Finding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State that the 1901 Phu Mi Bun uprising in Isan, which followed economic restrictions and tax burdens, foreshadowed the subsequent challenges by rural northeasterners to the Thai state's authority.
Cash for no comment
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 20/07/2014
» Few people outside the media industry had heard of the Thailand Information Centre For Civil Rights and Investigative Journalism (TCIJ), but by Monday it had the attention of every major news organisation in Thailand.
Online gambling explosion is just waiting to kick off
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 01/06/2014
» Each with a pen in their hand, the two men with grey hair sitting on stools at an old billiards table, now fitted with a marble top, flip through the Sport Pool and Talad Look Nang (leather ball market) tabloids while studying football teams' form. For 20 baht, these daily sports papers offer results and analyses of previous matches.
The highs and lows of illegal gambling
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 25/05/2014
» As a former supervisor of an underground casino, M promised he would make me some profit. My stake was 3,000 baht.
Mission to fight corruption with facts and figures
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 19/05/2014
» When Kongake Prommanee started his job as a research assistant at the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) two years ago, he was assigned to a 10-member team responsible for the newly set-up Transparency Index.
Nursing some trepidation
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 18/05/2014
» Filipina nurse Maria Judith Avestruz was considered lucky to land a full-time job at Manila’s semi-private Philippine Heart Centre, where she stayed for almost three years. But the pay was very low, so in October, 2012, she decided to come to Thailand, where she was accepted right away by Phyathai 2 Hospital as an international case manager.
A yen for thailand
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 26/12/2013
» Despite scepticism about the long-term effectiveness of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "Abenomics" stimulus policies, one certainty is Japanese companies will continue to develop their presence in Thailand.