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ASF scandal, pork prices hit govt credibility
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 18/01/2022
» The Prayut Chan-o-cha government has survived five waves of Covid-19 but it could finally be brought down sick by a swine virus.
In 'proxy crisis' land, it's all got so absurd
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 24/12/2019
» Army chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong said last week that the nation is facing a "proxy crisis" where the instigators cannot face the government directly so they have created agents to do so.
An uncle the family has begun to shun
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 06/11/2018
» Dear Uncle Agony,
A land where the law is too easily bought
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 13/02/2018
» A photo showing fugitive former prime ministers Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra chilling out in Beijing? The alleged poaching of a rare black panther in a wildlife sanctuary by Italian-Thai Development Plc (ITD) president Premchai Karnasuta? The absurdity of a deputy premier insisting on his virtuousness in order to carry on in his job even though he was caught "borrowing" almost 30 million baht worth of luxury watches from his businessman friends without informing the relevant authority?
Granola love
Muse, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/02/2017
» Chanisara Thothong cannot force herself to watch video testimonies in which people praise Diamond Grains, the no-dairy, no-wheat granola brand she founded with boyfriend Wuthikarn Wongdeeprasith three years ago.
NCPO props up 'wall' that divides Thais
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 22/11/2016
» The scandal regarding motivational speaker Orapim "Best" Raksapon may be just another small brick but it could go a long way in reinforcing the wall of divisiveness that continues to rise in Thai society.
Government double standards just won't fly
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/10/2016
» Auditor-General Pisit Leelavachiropas was stating the obvious when he declared last week that Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon's 20.9-million-baht chartered flight to attend a meeting in Hawaii was "above board" and that the serving of expensive food like caviar is "normal".
Murky pond incident casts doubts on KU
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 13/09/2016
» As the 19-year-old first-year student from Kasetsart University lies in a coma, questions about the incident from college administrators and the public seem to focus on whether the pond in which he was told to swim was filled with wastewater or natural rainwater.
PM right to resist calls to stay at helm
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/08/2015
» As a soldier, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha may have thought his toughest battle was fighting his enemies -- people who are against the coup and the military regime and its deeply conservative way of thinking.
No such thing as a ‘clean’ witch-hunt
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 22/04/2014
» Are we to believe that a legal limbo or administrative void will simply happen and a new beginning will be born?