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OPINION

Rethink debt servicing

News, Editorial, Published on 01/12/2023

» Informal debt has been a chronic problem in Thai society, affecting a large number of people, particularly low-income earners.

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Police graft case not over

News, Editorial, Published on 26/09/2022

» The Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions last week cleared veteran politician Suthep Thaugsuban of corruption in relation to construction projects at police stations and police living quarters while he was deputy prime minister more than a decade ago.

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Budget needs more scrutiny

Oped, Editorial, Published on 07/06/2022

» The scandal involving the bogus GT200 bomb detectors seems to return to haunt the government every now and again.

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No escaping this scandal

Oped, Editorial, Published on 21/04/2022

» The leader of the Democrat Party Jurin Laksanawisit has finally apologised for the high-profile sex scandal involving the party's ex-deputy Prinn Panitchpakdi.

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Fuel tax cut needed

Oped, Editorial, Published on 22/10/2021

» The price of oil is a notorious headache for governments around the world. Now, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is reaching for the pill bottle with the global price of oil having risen sharply from US$20 per barrel last year to over $80 this week.

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Keep elderly payment as is

Oped, Editorial, Published on 29/09/2021

» A proposal to limit recipients of the old-age allowance to only the poor -- shifting from a universal principle -- is a step in the wrong direction.

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PM tenure a timebomb

Oped, Editorial, Published on 30/09/2021

» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's controversial tenure is set to become another political timebomb that might plunge the country into crisis.

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Stipend fiasco reveals flaws

Sports, Editorial, Published on 28/01/2021

» Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith made a timely move to intervene in cases of elderly people who are inadvertently indebted to the state for accepting monthly living allowances for years without being aware that they are ineligible. Such decisiveness is noteworthy.

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Reconciliation path unclear

Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/11/2020

» With the country currently so polarised, the expectation that the reconciliation panel set up by parliament will be able to find a way out of this political conflict is low. Parliament president Chuan Leekpai revealed on Monday that he had approached three former prime ministers to join the reconciliation committee.

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Cops bend to royalist mob

Oped, Editorial, Published on 13/11/2020

» If the scene of a yellow-clad royalist crowd trying to surround and viciously attack a car they believed was carrying Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, the ex-leader of the now-defunct Future Forward Party (FFP), at a hotel in a southern province on Wednesday, made the public concerned about the state of disorderliness in the country, the lack of police action in the case demonstrates something much worse. Indeed, the question now is if Thailand is on the verge of becoming a failed state.