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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"?
Regime builds one-way road to disunity
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/08/2017
» Whether what we are witnessing falls along the lines of Great Expectations, The Great Escape or The Great Dictator is probably still up for interpretation.
Let's face it, reconciliation isn't working
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 10/04/2012
» It's about time to admit that the current attempt to require people in the nation to "forgive" and "reconcile" with one another by law is doomed to fail.
NCPO pat on back a slap in face for media
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 19/06/2018
» It would be comical if it was not true. Last Sunday, government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd blasted the media for spreading supposedly "false news" that the cabinet had approved a bonus for 600 National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) officials.
Voters torn between old and new
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 20/03/2018
» How do we read this? A majority of people want new political parties to form a government after the next general election but the incumbent Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha remains the most popular choice to be prime minister, according to a latest opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration or Nida Poll.
Prettier words won’t disguise the discord
Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 20/02/2018
» What is in a name? Will a new proposal to stop using the word salim, literally referring to a multi-coloured traditional Thai dessert but later used to describe a pro-coup, pro-elite, conservative group of people, especially those who prefer to overlook social injustice to maintain bourgeois lifestyles, help with reconciliation?
Laying the tracks for another lost decade
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 04/10/2017
» If former Transport Minister Chadchart Sittipunt was the proverbial stone thrown to test the viability of the road ahead, the sound of it hitting a dead end should be loud and clear.
Yingluck rice ruling to open old wounds
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 25/07/2017
» Will former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra go to jail for alleged malfeasance in administering the rice-pledging scheme?
Post-coup vision of Thai politics bleak
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/07/2017
» Will there be an election? Will Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha return to the top seat under an outsider quota? Will a love-all, serve-all ticket win Bhumjaithai Party leader Anutin Charnvirakul a chance? Or will the country see a second female PM in veteran politician Sudarat Keyuraphan?
Regime good intentions go nowhere fast
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 25/04/2017
» If somebody had told Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his military backers in the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) three years ago that their grandiose dreams of reforming the nation would come down to such a humdrum attempt of banning people from sitting in pickup truck beds, would they have felt disconcerted?