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Crisis panel reveals PM's guiding hand
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 18/08/2015
» Who needs an electoral democracy when there is Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's "roadmap"?
Elite hide behind phoney shield of 'patriotism'
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 03/12/2019
» Why can't people hate their own country?
Will the Empire strike back at the Skywalkers?
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 17/12/2019
» The dark spectre of street politics has returned to a deeply polarised society, as the ruling conservatives try to hold on to their unstable coalition over a feast of shark fin soup.
Coalition allies won't read from same script
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 28/05/2019
» As soon as parliament opened for business, we got a glimpse of the endgame.
Sex scandal casts a shadow over Jurin
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 26/04/2022
» 'Taking more responsibility than necessary can amount to an act of irresponsibility."
City governor poll offers us a glimmer of hope
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 08/03/2022
» Following a long delay, the cabinet is expected to set the date for the Bangkok governor election for May 29, according to news reports. To say that it's long-awaited is an understatement.
By-election loss bad for PPRP, worse for PM
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 01/02/2022
» It was a case of third time not lucky for the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), and its frontman Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha. The setback suffered by the PPRP in the by-election on Sunday for Bangkok's Constituency 9 covering Laksi and parts of Chatuchak district was its third defeat in a row.
Governor poll will be a contest of imagination
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/12/2021
» Imagination is more important than knowledge, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein famously once said. The Bangkok gubernatorial election, expected to be held early next year but has not been officially scheduled, looks set to be a fascinating contest of imagination.
Bureaucratic mess lays bare govt inefficiency
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 14/04/2020
» A future of less mobility? An accelerated pace of AI and robot applications? An economic slump greater than the Great Depression?
Too many cooks will be recipe for political disaster
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 14/05/2019
» Who will be the next prime minister? That is the immediate question. The next issue, possibly more pressing and relevant, is how he or she will govern a Thailand divided by increasingly fragmented politics and vacillating rule of law.