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Grumpy PM no martyr for progress
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 12/06/2018
» Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is grumpy and has been for the past week, almost four years actually. What with his lamenting that he is all too human, that people should respect the premiership or how he could have left the country in a civil war had he not staged the May 22 coup.
Corruption is embedded in the sex trade
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 16/01/2018
» The "Victoria's Secret" police list has laid bare the failure of the military regime's anti-corruption and reform attempts.
Tribalism lets the blind lead the blind
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 26/09/2017
» It comes in a package. A coup that is not a coup. Airport seizures that are retroactively described as self-imposed closures by the authorities themselves. An act of forcing freshmen to strip naked and simulate sex acts is explained away as a rite of passage and bonding activity.
Regime bent on digging hole for itself
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 20/06/2017
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha made a major case for Thai cultural propriety with his criticism of popular mor lam sing singer Lamyai Haithongkham for wearing racy costumes and making raunchy dance moves.
Paving a new path
Life, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/11/2013
» When Venerable Dr Anil Sakya left his home in Nepal as a novice at the age of 14, he thought he was in for an adventure involving the then-unknown thrill of a plane ride to join a training programme in Thailand.
Caught in web of sex, fungus and audiotape
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 09/07/2013
» If Deputy Defence Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapa can get hold of some chong cao or caterpillar fungus now, he might want to take a double dose and stand up to the storm of doubt surrounding a YouTube audio clip with openness and valour.