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Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/02/2022
» If the victim were not a young woman with a bright future as an ophthalmologist and the culprit were not a policeman, the accident on Phaya Thai Road on Jan 21 would have been worth at most of a few inches of coverage, and certainly not its current position as the nation's most talked-about story.
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 04/09/2021
» The case of a police officer brutally torturing a drug suspect, that has gone viral in a leaked video clip, is just an infected sore that happened to burst in public.
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 21/08/2021
» We're inching toward the day of reckoning, so it seems. Everyday there's a battle, and the Din Daeng Triangle is the battle ground. At least for the past several days.
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 20/03/2021
» Navigating Bangkok's pavements is like walking in a mine field or an obstacle course. But everybody who has ever travelled in the city on foot knows that.
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 06/03/2021
» Three members of the cabinet and several others were given jail sentences last week for their roles in toppling the Yingluck Shinawatra government.
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 12/12/2020
» I picked up my older brother who flew down from Chiang Mai a few days ago. The first thing he said to me was that when he looked down as the plane flew over Bangkok, all he saw was haze.
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 28/11/2020
» So, the Prayut Chan-o-cha regime is resorting to slapping the lese majeste law against protesters again. Up to 14 protest leaders have so far been summoned to answer charges.
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 17/10/2020
» Words can hardly express my sense of outrage and dismay at the use of overwhelming force to disperse peaceful protesters early on Thursday morning.
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 19/09/2020
» All eyes are on the big event this afternoon at Thammasat University.
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/09/2020
» When Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha visited Rayong in mid-July to lend moral support to its residents following a coronavirus scare, the security detail around him was, as usual, tight.