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Put charter's idealistic bent to the vote
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/04/2015
» The new draft charter is 130 pages long, but only four paragraphs of it should justify the need for it to go through a national referendum.
Sommai hung out to dry in land tax chaos
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 17/03/2015
» The government's abrupt about-turn on the land and buildings tax has caused damage. Most prominent, is the perception the government put one of its own soldiers in the line of fire, and abandoned him.
Megaprojects yes, but cui bono?
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/01/2013
» Two trillion baht is a lot of money. It can buy about 17 Suvarnabhumi airports. Even spread over a period of seven years, which is what the government is proposing, it still amounts to spending of about 280 billion baht a year. That would be enough to buy another nine Red Line electric train routes, at an estimated 30 billion baht per line.