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'Phuyai' must lead kids by good example
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 05/01/2018
» As National Children's Day draws near, it's time for the public to pay attention to the annual slogan (<i>kham kwan</i>) thought up each year by the prime minister of the day for kids.
Old solutions no answer to dust menace
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 25/01/2021
» When pressured by newshounds last week about another round of PM2.5 dust that has blanketed the capital city and some other provinces for several days in a row, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon answered, "The government has tackled it all along." Really?
Know-it-all leaders keep on bumbling
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 03/11/2016
» I cannot help but feel a bit of pity for Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon who has been bombarded with heavy criticism for his gaffe regarding falling rice prices.
Political will needed for Mahakan fix
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 07/10/2016
» "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." This quote by Helen Keller immediately came to mind when I learned of the decision by the government to back the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's plan to uproot the Mahakan Fort community in its eviction plan.
Pareena saga a test of land reform resolve
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 15/11/2019
» When Deputy Agriculture Minister Thamanat Prompow defended Pareena Kraikupt -- a Palang Pracharath Party member and MP for Ratchaburi who is being grilled in a high-profile land scandal -- by suggesting that she may escape forest encroachment charges because her family "had lived on the disputed plots prior to the enactment of land reforms", I could sense his triumph, as well as relief.
PM must tread carefully or else feel the heat
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 29/01/2018
» If Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his NCPO brothers are not in the habit of checking the temperature, it's the time for them to start.
Getting to the bottom of PM poll of polls
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 13/09/2017
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has every reason to be miffed with pollsters.
Prayut plays with fire over appointments
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 30/04/2018
» After nearly four years in executive power, what Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha sees as "usual" appears to be not so usual, at least for those who want to see new things in politics.
Our leaders like keeping it in the family
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 22/09/2016
» With their fathers on opposite sides of the political spectrum, Pathompol Chan-o-cha and Panthongtae Shinawatra should not have anything in common.
Storm clouds gather over charter vote
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 27/04/2016
» Climate-wise, we are told that the almost-unbearable heat, with the mercury rising well over 40C, will soon be over. Monsoon rain is about to start and will drive away the sweltering weather.