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Rice wealth fantasy turns to nightmare
News, Kamolwat Praprutitum, Published on 06/03/2014
» The populist politics of the rice-pledging scheme has kept many of us poor and made us immature. Yet, it has the immense power to lure.
Fanning the flames of segregation
News, Kamolwat Praprutitum, Published on 28/02/2014
» Never before have we had a caretaker government so embattled, leaving the country so rudderless.
When water rises, you need nerves of steel
News, Kamolwat Praprutitum, Published on 11/10/2013
» The wet season is upon us once again and with it comes a test of nerve. Around this time two years ago, Bangkok was helplessly complacent. Quite a few of us thought the water from the North that had swallowed the Central Plains, one province after another, would somehow be diverted away from us.
Public deserves answers over expo bid failure
News, Kamolwat Praprutitum, Published on 20/06/2013
» The government has gone quiet over the country's failure to remain in the running to host the 2020 World Expo.
The dubiosity of donations
Life, Kamolwat Praprutitum, Published on 05/04/2012
» The annual trip to pay ancestral homage at a temple in Ayutthaya two weeks ago was much too usual to bear.
Trading security for the tourist dollar
Life, Kamolwat Praprutitum, Published on 26/01/2012
» The beauty of Thailand, for some, is that one can enter and exit the country almost as easily as walking in and out of a 7-Eleven.
Goose that lays the golden egg killed
Life, Kamolwat Praprutitum, Published on 23/02/2012
» It's incredible how the prospect of making money from tourists can bring out the entrepreneurial spirit.