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Army chief sings out hateful blast from gory past

News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 19/02/2019

» The anti-communist song <i>Nak Phandin</i> or "Useless Weight to the Land" is so loaded with hateful political baggage it could have sunk army chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong's career.

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Distress signals from FFP?

News, Published on 22/12/2018

» The Future Forward Party (FFP) has gone through a rough patch lately and the internal cracks are all too conspicuous.

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China is blowing an opportunity with Meng's arrest

News, Published on 21/12/2018

» China is blowing the geopolitical opportunity of a lifetime. There has probably never been a better moment to undo America's greatest strategic advantage by dividing the US from its global network of democratic allies, many of which are horrified by President Trump's rhetoric and policies and deeply worried about Washington's staying power. Yet, Beijing is doing its best to remind that democratic world that it has far more to fear from a hegemonic China than from an erratic America.

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New party shows hints of cracks

News, Published on 17/11/2018

» The Future Forward Party (FFP) is facing stiff competition even from the ranks of parties considered to be its allies, and the reported undercurrent being whipped up within the FFP is not helping the situation.

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Myanmar's shirked duty

News, Editorial, Published on 08/10/2018

» Last Thursday, police arrested two men in Ayutthaya for possession of drugs. They were driving a pickup with 700 one-kilogramme bags of crystal methamphetamine, a so-called recreational drug without medical or social value.

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Time to lift rights bans

News, Editorial, Published on 17/09/2018

» The best thing that can be said about last week's action by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) is that the all-male group understands it has created a problem. It has returned to the public a tiny bit of the civil and human rights it removed 52 months ago. On Friday, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha used his extraordinary powers under Section 44 to give some small but important freedoms to political parties. While the order restores the right to organise party affairs, it falls lamentably short of restoring basic and constitutional rights to all Thais.

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Philippines' hollow victory over China

News, Johanna Son, Published on 20/08/2018

» In an Asean multilateral meeting in Cambodia in 2012, the Philippines' then-foreign secretary, Alberto del Rosario, found himself in an uncomfortable diplomatic situation.

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Sticking to poll roadmap

News, Published on 04/08/2018

» Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam has given his assurance that constituency boundaries will be redrawn and primary votes carried out within 90 days of the law on the election of MPs taking effect.

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Charter intricacies and electoral delicacies

News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 28/07/2018

» Thailand has witnessed 20 constitutions since 1932. The most recent, the 20th, came into effect last year, after an interim constitution, the 19th, which emerged as a result of a coup d'etat in 2014.