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Overzealous Prayuth
News, Published on 06/01/2012
» Army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha is acting like a paranoid person, seeing anti-royalists under every stone, calling for the public to help the military defend the monarchy against efforts to undermine the institution. He acts as if he did not know that virtually everybody dearly loves our King.
Social media thriving in crises
News, Published on 07/01/2012
» Crises can bring a community closer, but can also quite easily tear it apart if communication breaks down.
Alumni wrong in blocking Nitirat
News, Published on 31/01/2012
» Thammasat University's Class 01 law graduates deem it inappropriate to use the university's premises to stage activities it says are offensive to the monarchy. The alumni misunderstands what a university should aspire to.
Tapping into prison phones
News, Published on 06/02/2012
» It is probably impossible to imagine a more complicated proposal to fight drug traffickers than the one put forward by authorities during the weekend. Certainly, it could serve as the plot for a movie or Sunday evening soap opera comedy. The source of the plot is Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung, but there are numerous other players.
Bikers in Bangkok don't bother with rules
News, Published on 08/02/2012
» The safety issue regarding motorcycles is complicated by one serious problem. I refer to the flagrant abuse of traffic laws and good sense.
Doing time made easier by FaceTime
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 13/02/2012
» One of the funniest stories in the past week has got to be the protest by prisoners in Trang province who burned their beds and belongings, as well as that of their wardens because they wanted, among other things, to get rid of the chief warden because he was too strict.
'Consensual' Rape
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 04/03/2012
» A 16-year-old girl was used as a sex object and filmed. The question of whether she gave her consent to a soldier with a uniform and a gun in a war zone is absurd
Still directing local affairs from afar
News, Published on 06/03/2012
» Re: ''No ticket home needed'' (BP, March 5). What wise words from Thaksin Shinawatra, about playing a game and ''when the game was over, those who lost did not accept the result of the game''. Question: Where is Thaksin now, and where should he be?
Words are like water
News, Published on 09/03/2012
» Re: ''PM heartens Japanese investors'' (BP, Mar 8). I read with amusement Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's assurances _ nay, guarantees _ to the Japanese government that there would be no repeat of last year's disastrous floods in Thailand.
Welcome to the land of queues, please stand by
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 18/03/2012
» One thing the current immigration woes at Suvarnabhumi have highlighted is that no one likes to stand in queues, be it at airports, banks, buffets or bathrooms.