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Prayut's questions attract ridicule, not input
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 16/06/2017
» Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha's proposed four questions must have many people stumped. What is he thinking? What's the purpose of posing such questions out of the blue?
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Law enforcement gets off lightly again
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/02/2022
» If the victim were not a young woman with a bright future as an ophthalmologist and the culprit were not a policeman, the accident on Phaya Thai Road on Jan 21 would have been worth at most of a few inches of coverage, and certainly not its current position as the nation's most talked-about story.
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Talk capital punishment after justice reform
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 23/06/2018
» A day after convicted killer Theerasak Longji was put to death, my teenage daughter asked me at our dinner table what I thought about it.
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Tale of activist's 'stupidity' hard to swallow
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 24/03/2017
» Chaiyapoom Pasae must have been really stupid. He was a local Lahu boy. He knew where the military had set up their semi-permanent checkpoint. He had with him 2,800 tablets of ya ba, a knife and a hand grenade -- all stuff that could put him in jail.
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Thais should become less pragmatic
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 12/08/2016
» So the circus-like referendum came and went. And the vote came down decidedly on the side of the junta government.The constitution drafters and supporters are understandably ecstatic. Their work in drafting the country's supreme law will not go to waste, and, with the public mandate on its side, the junta can now carry on with its national reform agenda and returning the country to a democratic path.
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Regime on shaky ground as 'Pai' rebels
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 19/08/2016
» I don't know Jatupat Boonpattararaksa personally. Like many people, I first got to know of him from news reports when he and a group of his friends joined a villagers' protest against gold mining in the northeastern province of Loei three years ago.
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NCPO underestimates activists' strength
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 18/03/2016
» Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, things get worse.
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Accountability, not the death sentence, is the answer
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 11/07/2014
» For a long time, I struggled with the question of whether capital punishment should be taken off the books. Could it be morally justified in modern society?
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Oil spill panel fails to win over public trust
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 30/08/2013
» It's been just over a month since at least 54,000 litres of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the sea off Rayong.
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Impact assessment process has glaring flaws
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 13/09/2013
» An impromptu street drama took place last Sunday in front of Wat Phon Thong in tambon Na Pong of Loei's Muang district. The temple was the venue of a public hearing to consider an application to expand a gold mining area.
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