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Lottery farce continues to be PM's Achilles' heel
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/03/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha was surely joking on Friday when he said during his weekly "Return Happiness to the People" monologue that he would scrap the lottery altogether if it becomes too messy.
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A sound tactical retreat
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/07/2012
» Lose a few battles in order to win the war. This famous quote appears to have inspired the strategy adopted by the Pheu Thai Party as it made a tactical retreat from trying to ram the reconciliation bills through the final reading in parliament over a month ago and is now likely to withdraw the bills when the House reconvenes next month.
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Somsak in hot seat for just doing a good job
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/07/2012
» House Speaker Somsak Kiatsuranont said he managed to convince Thaksin Shinawatra to change his mind and not force through the controversial reconciliation bill, averting a potentially explosive political showdown, but the Democrats think otherwise and want him removed.
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Life without populism
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 06/05/2018
» Once upon a time in a land very, very far away with a "government by the people, for the people" there was a plan to fix recalcitrant taxi drivers and make them pick up passengers, politely, and then to reward the drivers with a fare increase. And that plan was carried out in the faraway country, and passengers were happy to reward deserving, hard-working, uncomplaining taxi drivers.
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Break the mould
Oped, Postbag, Published on 07/05/2022
» Re: "Dove seeks to end forced haircuts," (BP, May 6).
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Tigers, greed: The modern Thai temple
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 06/06/2016
» Among the most notorious of the influential monks, it's Luang Ta Chan, otherwise known as Phra Archan Phusit Khantitharo, the abbot of the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi, who amazes me the most.
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Root for city workers
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/02/2024
» Re: "High-perched garbos killed as truck enters underpass", (BP, Jan 24).
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'Yellow vests' just want their aspirations respected
News, Published on 06/12/2018
» Just over 50 years ago, Jacques Tati's Playtime opened in French movie theatres. In the comedy, Tati once again features his iconic character, Monsieur Hulot, the confused but courtly Parisian who confronts the challenges of a rapidly modernising France. This time, Mr Hulot tries to navigate the shining and sleek newly developed periphery of Paris, suddenly bristling with buildings and streets that are indistinguishable from one another. The camera captures the hopelessness of Mr Hulot's quest when it focuses on a rond-point, or traffic circle, around which slow-moving cars and buses, like brightly coloured horses on a merry-go-round, circle endlessly.
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How to be a hypocrite
News, Postbag, Published on 28/05/2016
» Re: "A sorry situation", (PostBag, May 26).
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Knockin' on parody's door
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 07/11/2016
» Enough about Bob Dylan and his Nobel Prize in Literature. He took his time but finally accepted the honour and will make it to the ceremony in Stockholm in December if he can.
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