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  • THAILAND

    Calling on the red shirts: Pheu Thai needs you to beat the dope vote!

    News, Published on 26/06/2022

    » The Pheu Thai Party has welcomed former red-shirt stalwart Nattawut Saikuar back to the fold, hoping his oratorical skills will help win support in the Northeast that has been tapped by the Bhumjaithai Party, political scientists say.

  • THAILAND

    Justice minister signs order for release of Nattawut, other prisoners

    King-oua Laohong, Published on 18/12/2020

    » Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin has signed an order for the early release of 76 prisoners who received royal clemency, but they will have to wear electronic tags.

  • THAILAND

    Democracy on wane since protest: UDD

    News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 17/05/2020

    » The overall political situation has changed for the worse since the red shirt protest in 2010 with democracy regressing and people's power suffering a setback, claims Jatuporn Prompan, chairman of the red-shirt United Front for Democrat against Dictatorship (UDD).

  • OPINION

    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.

  • THAILAND

    Same old faces playing the same old game

    News, Published on 07/11/2019

    » Despite having a democratically-elected government after five years of military rule, a political expert says progress is hard to spot in Thai politics, as the country remains bogged down by the power struggle between liberals and conservatives.

  • OPINION

    Enforcement first

    News, Postbag, Published on 03/08/2019

    » Re: "Need for speed will not help solve gridlock", (Opinion, Aug 2).

  • OPINION

    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.

  • OPINION

    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.

  • THAILAND

    Cops stop activists outside Prawit home

    News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 17/04/2018

    » Two political activists were detained briefly by the police Monday for announcing their intention to carry out a symbolic gesture of protest at the residence of Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon.

  • THAILAND

    Boon-eau dies aged 97

    News, Published on 14/10/2016

    » Former House speaker Boon-eau Prasertsuwan, a veteran politician of Suphan Buri province, died at Siriraj Hospital about 8am yesterday. He was 97.

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