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Shifting political tides portend turmoil
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 06/01/2012
» Thailand has arrived at the outset of 2012 more bruised and battered compared to its previous bouts of political instability, characterised by several years of protests and violence and then capped recently by the floods.
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Just whose land is Thailand?
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 03/02/2012
» The Nitirat campaign to amend Article 112 of the Criminal Code, commonly known as the lese majeste law, has generated a political tempest.
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Don't just keep relying on luck
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 17/02/2012
» Faraway tensions from the precarious brinkmanship in the Middle East have reached Thai soil with the apparent terrorist bungle in central Bangkok. The government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra continues to deny international terrorist presence in Thailand, but the weight of evidence increasingly points to the contrary. Thailand is a soft target among third-country theatres of operation. Unless the Thai authorities beef up their security measures and conduct deft diplomacy in the near term, the risk of this easygoing country degenerating from a transit point for illicit crimes to an outright staging ground of international terrorist violence will grow.
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After Europe, Suu Kyi faces tough challenge
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 15/06/2012
» Less than two weeks after her spectacular visit to Bangkok and surrounding provinces under the aegis of the World Economic Forum, Aung San Suu Kyi has embarked on a long-awaited whirlwind tour of western Europe. From Geneva to Oslo and Bergen, and from Dublin to London and Paris, she is deservedly expected to be feted like a rock star of international politics by European leaders who have been her longtime supporters through thick and thin while she spent years in the political wilderness.
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Speaking peace to Asean
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 01/02/2013
» Never before in its 45 years of existence has the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) received so much public attention in Thailand.
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Bringing insurgency to an end will be a long, hard slog
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 01/03/2013
» The media hype in Bangkok surrounding Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's recent meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in Putrajaya sounded as if peace was at hand in Thailand's restive southernmost border provinces where a deadly Malay-Muslim insurgency has festered for almost a decade.
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Thailand, Myanmar share common destiny
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 17/05/2013
» One of the exaggerated nuggets of official Thai history focuses on Siamese independence in December 1767 after its capital Ayutthaya had been sacked by converging Burmese armies seven months earlier.
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Street rallies yield to parliamentary process
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 09/08/2013
» It felt like deja vu for a while. As parliament reconvened, anti-government columns lined up, ready to rumble and depose the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, this time under a new rubric called the People's Democratic Force to Overthrow Thaksinism (Pefot).
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Opportunities and risks in Myanmar's chairmanship
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 05/10/2013
» No country resembles a laboratory of political and economic development more than Myanmar. A country with effectively two capitals, old and new, in Yangon and Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar is briskly moving from one reform to another. Its multiple exchange rate system has been unified and stable. The infrastructure is receiving facelifts all over, much slower than demand but moving forward nevertheless. Human resource capacity is being bolstered in short order.
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Protesters must unite for democracy
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 31/01/2014
» So deep and visceral is Thailand's polarisation that it is no longer enough to go around in Bangkok with a neon sign saying "Thaksin is a crook". To the protesters led by Suthep Thaugsuban under the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), it is necessary to condone and partake in their efforts to uproot the corrupt "Thaksin regime" by blocking parts of central Bangkok and opposing the election this Sunday. But this should not be the case. It is imperative for the "anti-Thaksinites" everywhere to come out against the divisive and convicted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra and to be in favour of electoral democracy at the same time.
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