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  • OPINION

    Abe legacy is Japan as 'normal' nation

    Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 04/09/2020

    » Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be missed throughout much of Asia, including China. His health-induced political departure attributable to a recurrence of ulcerative colitis brings to an end Japan's longest-serving prime minister in a consecutive tenure. While much will be recorded about his rich legacy, Mr Abe should be seen as a natural mover and shaker who reshaped Japan into a more "normal" country able to pursue its national interest like others by all available means.

  • OPINION

    Election augurs end of the Thaksin era

    News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 05/04/2019

    » It could have happened in August 2001, but Thailand has taken nearly two wasted decades to see the back of Thaksin Shinawatra.

  • OPINION

    Is Thailand's civil society waking up again?

    News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 19/01/2018

    » It is hard to believe how the military-backed government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha that appeared so strong not so long ago now looks shaky enough to be untenable.

  • OPINION

    Thailand counts down to final, fond October

    News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 06/10/2017

    » For the past four decades, the month of October has carried certain meanings and implications associated with a left-leaning student-led civil society uprising that overthrew a military dictatorship and a right-wing military-led suppression that crushed mostly university students and chased them into the jungle to join the local communist party.

  • OPINION

    Why the Thai people cry for His Majesty

    News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 21/10/2016

    » While the vast majority of Thais at home and abroad are in a mourning mood, yearning for a bygone past with an emerging angst for what is to come after King Bhumibol Adulyadej's spectacular seven-decade reign, this grief is not universally shared. Not all Thais feel this way. A small minority are relatively indifferent in their reaction to the end of the reign. A smaller fraction may even challenge and oppose what looks like wide and deep grief and sorrow wherever in the world the Thai sphere reaches. This minority should be allowed to hold their beliefs and sentiments without persecution and harassment but they should also pay due respect to others who want to mourn.

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