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  Democracy puts limits on protests

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 24/09/2017

  » Just over a decade ago, friends knew they had to go to either Sanam Luang or Siam Square to find me after work. I was not there selling goods on the pavements, but instead I was being the typical democratic-minded youth looking for fairness from the government that I had not voted for.

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  New poll date promise yet to be tested

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 28/02/2018

  » On Jan 1, 2018, the <i>Bangkok Post</i> took the bold step of sending a message to the coup-led government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha that there were just 329 days remaining before the election he promised would have to be held.

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  Poll delays do nobody any favours

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 21/01/2018

  » Once again, hopes of an election in November this year seem to be slipping with each passing day -- the latest blow coming courtesy of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) vote on Friday to change Section 2 of the organic law on the election of members of parliament.

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  Broken vows test patience to the limit

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 28/01/2018

  » The military government has managed to break yet another promise as its proteges who go by the name of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) last week passed a bill that could delay the long-promised general election by another 90 days.

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  Standing up for Thailand

  Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 25/07/2016

  » It was about a decade ago that Kowit Sanandang, then the editor of the Bangkok Post, asked me to think of something that would be transformational in the years to come and how the newspaper should cover it. My first thought was of Asia and how it was becoming the engine of growth for the world.

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  Mahathir starts off with a bang

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 13/05/2018

  » Mahathir bin Mohamad, the 92-year old and seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia has gotten down to work on the very first day of assuming office with orders to ban overseas travel of the former protege turned nemesis Najib Razak, setting up an investigation team to look into the corruption allegations against the Najib government and was also looking for an early pardon to the jailed protege turned nemesis turned protege -- Anwar Ibrahim.

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  Regime just delaying the inevitable

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 25/02/2018

  » The junta shocked the nation this past week when its puppets in the national assembly shot down all seven election commissioner candidates who were supposedly handpicked by the regime.

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  A welcome, if late offer from General Rolex

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 01/02/2018

  » The words uttered by Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon Wednesday -- that he would be willing to step down from his position if that is the people's will -- are welcome, and come as something the country and the international community has been waiting for ever since his luxury watch scandal broke in early December of last year.

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  All signs point to an election

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 17/12/2017

  » The messages coming from the men in uniform and those who helped them seize power are all positive. It makes democracy lovers such as myself feel a little more secure that after failing to deliver its promises for the past few years, the military government could hold an election in November 2018.

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  Stacking the deck doomed to failure

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 24/12/2017

  » After months of waiting, Thailand's political sector saw light at the end of the tunnel but that ray of hope came in the form of the use of Section 44 with an announcement by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Friday.

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