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Rising to the challenge
News, Published on 20/04/2012
» One of the big selling points of Phuket is that it is never dull. That aspect of the tourist destination's popularity got a boost over the Songkran holiday period in ways the resort island's promoters had never intended. A tsunami alert following two major earthquakes off Sumatra, measuring 8.6 and 8.2 on the Richter scale, sent residents and visitors rushing to higher ground. Then, five days after everyone had calmed down, a succession of aftershocks shook them up again.
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Calm before the storm?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/06/2012
» Pheu Thai MPs and their red-shirt supporters are clearly angry with the Constitution Court. Whether they will actually challenge the court's injunction ordering the parliament to delay the final reading of the constitution amendment bill will be known on Friday.
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Army prefers to risk lives than admit mistake
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/07/2012
» Two years after the controversy first erupted, the Department of Special Investigation has released a report which claims the GT200 and Alpha 6 bomb detectors are completely ineffective in explosives detection and that the devices were excessively overpriced.
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To avoid lying, look to the Lord Buddha
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 13/09/2012
» Anybody who has never told a lie in your life please raise your hand. What? Too unrealistic? Sorry. How about we narrow it down into a certain number of years, months and days instead? This way I'm sure we will see more and more hands shooting up in the air with a hint of pride on many faces.
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Culture is paramount
News, Published on 10/02/2013
» The letter by Kuldeep Nagi in yesterday's ''PostBag'', ''Thailand must wake up'' is off the mark in a number of its assertions.
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Myanmar baby ban has to go
News, Published on 29/05/2013
» Myanmar has shown again that 50 years as a dictatorship will lead to awkward moments in rejoining the world community of nations. Last weekend, the government did something completely outlandish and unacceptable. It decreed that Rohingya Muslim women must have no more than two children in their lifetime. No country, ever, has instituted such a policy, and Myanmar must immediately rescind it.
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Abusing my religion
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 26/07/2013
» The monastic community in Thailand has been plagued by so much bad news during the past few months. As we know, most of it relates to the improper behaviour of some members of the clergy.
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Real leader is needed
News, Published on 10/02/2014
» It is sometimes distressing to consider how close the country is to national healing, while remaining so divided. All thinking Thais agreed quite some time ago that political reform is necessary for sheer survival. Yet the major participants have been involved in political warfare about minute and ultimately unimportant details regarding this. As the rhetoric ratchets up to even more divisive heights, speakers everywhere seem more concerned with baiting and putting down their opposition than providing any of the leadership that is so sorely needed.
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The way to end the Korean 'Cold War'
Published on 07/04/2014
» The confrontation on the Korean Peninsula has an almost fossil-like quality. North Korea, in particular, has driven the peninsula into a calcified rut so deep that all perspective has been lost. Initiatives to shift the stalemate have tended to become smaller and narrower, and easily overwhelmed by the deeply embedded instincts to preserve the status quo.
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Postbag: No one cares at SRT
News, Published on 12/07/2014
» Stories of the tragic deaths of innocent children are heartbreaking, especially if they could have been prevented. About 15 years ago my son, who was in his early teens, was travelling on the night train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok with a group from his school. A couple of hours after the kids and their chaperones had settled in their bunks for the night, my son felt the groping hands of a State Railway of Thailand (SRT) employee.
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