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Dry dreams, wet country
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 31/01/2012
» I have no way of knowing whether international business leaders at Davos over the weekend bought the Thai prime minister's assurances that there will be no repeat of last year's flood crisis in Thailand. All I know is that my large and clunky treadmill machine still stands outside the house because water from last year's flooding is still lodged within its machinery, and I have no plans to clean it up and haul it back inside until I am confident there will be no more flooding.
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Nation on road to recovery after floods
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 24/02/2012
» Deputy Transport Minister Chadchart Sittiphan admits he has no excuse for last year's catastrophic flooding but says the government will do its best to make sure it will not happen again.
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Mum on matters of (vital) interest
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 28/02/2012
» During his opening remarks at the 2012 Post Forum, Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong said the question he has been asked most often these past several months has been: Will there be floods this year? From most of the ordinary people out there, however, the question I have heard most often has been: Where is the floodway?
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Drowning in excuses as the floods advance
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 11/09/2012
» The run-off which has wreaked havoc in the lower northern region has only just reached Ayutthaya, but Bangkok is already flooded in a sea of excuses from politicians, bureaucrats and technocrats.
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Sickened as politicians play on flood misery
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 02/10/2012
» The Bangkok governor election won't be held until next year but many voters are already feeling like they've been taken hostage by the two main parties vying for the city's leadership.
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Three reasons for doubting Plodprasop
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 24/09/2013
» If Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has some good reasons why she lets Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi supervise the crucial, 350-billion-baht flood prevention scheme, I would like to hear them.
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Mr Suthep, the road ahead is empty for you
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 07/01/2014
» Dear Mr Suthep Thaugsuban,
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Yingluck's speech a setback
Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 19/02/2014
» Leaders and politicians can be defined by words they probably wish they had never uttered.
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Unity can’t be forged if you have no say
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 02/09/2014
» The Prayuth Chan-ocha "military cabinet" has generated less buzz this week than the news that Hello Kitty is not actually a cat (She's a British girl).
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Has reform failed, or has it even begun?
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 23/06/2015
» Maybe it's the natural swing of the pendulum — what goes up must come down — and that explains why we have gone from fight-to-the-death battles against inequality a few years ago, to high-minded campaigns for national reform last year, to struggles against overpriced lotteries, motorcycle racers and the age-old question of whether casinos should be allowed to operate legally in Thailand now.
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