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It can't be a battlefield
Oped, Editorial, Published on 19/08/2021
» Signs of escalating violence between anti-Prayut Chan-o-cha government demonstrators, who resumed their rallies early this month, and riot control police are a matter of grave concern.
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.
Only sincerity can end strife
News, Editorial, Published on 27/10/2020
» Parliament, which saw a joint house-senate meeting begin yesterday, has one more day to find a solution to the political unrest.
Dialogue vital to find peace
Oped, Editorial, Published on 16/10/2020
» With the declaration of the state of emergency, the confrontation between Prayut Chan-o-cha and the anti-dictatorship activists has overwhelmingly intensified, and once again the country has plunged into division.
PAD protests went too far
News, Editorial, Published on 14/02/2019
» From what began as peaceful street protests against the powerful Thaksin Shinawatra government in 2006, the now-defunct yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) movement got out of control in the following years. It leaders then resorted to extremism and violence, sexed up by hate speech.
Reshuffle buys time
News, Editorial, Published on 27/11/2017
» Details of the expected cabinet shake-up were released at the very end of the working week. There wasn't even an announcement, just the bare details of the Prayut Chan-o-cha 5 government, carried in the Royal Gazette. The reshuffle includes only a few new faces and departures, although it does reduce the number of military men from 12 to nine.
Watched by big brothers
News, Editorial, Published on 16/08/2017
» The arrest last week of an investigative reporter going about his job has put the spotlight once again on the uneven prosecution of corruption -- and the apparent use of favouritism and intimidation in some cases. Reporter Natthaporn Weeranun of the Isra News Agency was looking into the background of a National Anti-Corruption Commission probe. The NACC has announced it is interested in a possibly false declaration of assets by retired Pol Gen Patcharawat Wongsuwon. He is both a former national police chief, and the younger brother of Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon.
Credibility of NACC at risk
News, Editorial, Published on 05/08/2017
» Having been criticised for the lack of significant progress it has made in recent years, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) in the past month might have found cause to celebrate.
New law must rake in all corrupt figures
News, Editorial, Published on 16/07/2017
» The recent National Legislative Assembly (NLA) decision to approve a law on criminal procedures for holders of political positions has drawn mixed public reaction.
Signs of unity take root
News, Editorial, Published on 26/05/2016
» It wasn't very much, but it was a start. When the Election Commission invited more than 50 representatives of political parties to the Army Club last week to a forum on the law governing the Aug 7 referendum, the military government blinked.