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Thailand's tale told via 'The Nation'
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 28/06/2019
» Nearly five decades ago, The Nation newspaper started out as a pro-democracy, anti-military news organisation. It was fiercely independent and invariably hard-hitting vis-à-vis the powers-that-be. An English-language newspaper owned by Thais from the outset, it prided itself for having neither fear nor favour. Its lamentable expiry as a print newspaper today -- an online version will continue -- provides multiple parallels for Thailand's contemporary political history, ongoing polarisation and the changing nature of the business of journalism worldwide.
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Gen Prem is right, corruption is contemptible
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/02/2015
» Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda is known to be a man of few words – the kind of a man who speaks little but hits hard.
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Peaceful revolution possible
News, Postbag, Published on 18/10/2020
» Re: "Water cannon blast rally", (BP, Oct 17).
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Enforcement first
News, Postbag, Published on 03/08/2019
» Re: "Need for speed will not help solve gridlock", (Opinion, Aug 2).
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Feast of metaphors
News, Postbag, Published on 08/11/2019
» Re: "Rowing in the same boat", (BP, Nov 6). I was charmed by the rich feast of metaphors produced by Chinese premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha as they signed the three memoranda of understanding. It was enough to send this dried-up old connoisseur of great rhetoric into raptures of pre-orgasmic ecstasy.
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Into the political fray
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 30/09/2018
» Last June 30, the sometimes-accurate online Wikipedia updated the opening line of its entry on the general prime minister. For the first time, the introduction read, "Prayut Chan-o-cha is a Thai politician..." Before that, according to Wikipedia, Gen (Ret) Prayut was just a retired army general and head of the military junta -- which is what he claimed to be.
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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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A paragon of virtues
News, Postbag, Published on 31/12/2017
» As Pliny the Younger noted, "Example [is] the surest method of instruction."
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Will regime keep three key pledges for 2018?
News, Soonruth Bunyamanee, Published on 03/01/2018
» We have kicked off 2018 -- with the hope that there will be changes ahead.
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Thais have every right to expose state faults
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 08/10/2016
» 'Are you Thai?" is a catchphrase Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha loves asking people whom he thinks give our beloved country a bad name.
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