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Boss case shatters public confidence
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 17/08/2020
» If you start to feel a sense of relief that justice seems to be back on track in the shameful hit-and-run case involving Vorayuth Yoovidhya, after both prosecutors and police suddenly put the brakes on their attempts to free him, you may well have to think again.
It's only right for a true hero to be recognised
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 20/04/2019
» Activist Daycha Siripatra turned from a villain to a hero overnight.
Fresh talks a step to douse far South fires
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 05/01/2019
» Despite a spate of attacks rattling the restive far South over the past few weeks, the chief negotiator of peace talks in the region, Gen Udomchai Thammasaroraj, remains hopeful.
Phuket boat tragedy shows our indifference
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 09/07/2018
» Forty-two is the latest number of tourists who fell victims to a boat mishap in Phuket last week. Or should I say, to be more exact, that they were victims of negligence, sheer dereliction of duty of the authorities concerned and of a "This Is Thailand" culture?
Sirichai exit sets example for accountability
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 07/11/2017
» No one knows if former labour minister Sirichai Distakul realises it or not, but when he packed up his personal effects from the ministry last week, he set a new standard for our political culture.
In police theatre, the joke is on us
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 27/09/2017
» Those who have lived in Thailand long enough have probably heard of a form of folk theatre known in Thai as likay.
It's the regime itself most in need of reform
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 17/08/2017
» In theory, the appointment of 11 reform committees this week should make us feel optimistic about long-awaited national reform. But in reality, we don't quite feel that.
Police blitz on alcohol pics goes too far
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 24/07/2017
» At first, I thought a reporter at a mass-circulation newspaper who covered a police warning on members of the public not to post pictures of themselves with booze on social media got it wrong.
One 'mistake' is enough for Sanit and Co
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 03/03/2017
» Was he or was he not? The questions over Metropolitan Police Chief Lt Gen Sanit Mahathavorn's possible role as an adviser to a beverage giant will remain a hot topic for some time.
Storm clouds gather over charter vote
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 27/04/2016
» Climate-wise, we are told that the almost-unbearable heat, with the mercury rising well over 40C, will soon be over. Monsoon rain is about to start and will drive away the sweltering weather.