• OPINION

  Airship loss produces much hot air

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 17/09/2017

  » "Personally, I would agree if there is a call for a malfeasance probe. This would ward off criticism which emerged without proper information," Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda was reported to have said on Friday when the issue of the waste of 340 million baht on an airship was raised by the media.

• OPINION

  Hypocrisy of double standards

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 01/10/2017

  » Thailand's political landscape saw a dramatic change on Wednesday when the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions handed down its verdict to imprison former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra for five years for negligence of her duty as premier.

• OPINION

  Regime is destroying rule of law

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 08/10/2017

  » Bending the law and going back on words seems to have become the norm ever since the coup that ousted the elected government in 2014. Over the past week the supporters of the coup must have had a field day as their idol managed to have an audience with the head of state of a country that until recently was considered to be the beacon of democracy.

• OPINION

  Great escape could lead to backlash

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 27/08/2017

  » Friday was supposed to be Judgement Day but became Great Escape Day when former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra reportedly managed to sneak out of the country ahead of the verdict by the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Political Position Holders.

• OPINION

  Time to ease 'I'm the boss' attitude

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 02/07/2017

  » Waking up on Tuesday for most Thais was just another day but by evening there was a whole lot of social media buzz on a decision by the cabinet passed earlier in the day -- the decision to build a Bangkok Observatory.

• OPINION

  Rail project right on time for election

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 18/06/2017

  » The government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha late into the week came out to say Section 44 will be used to expedite the construction of the long-delayed 252-kilometre railway linking Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima.

• OPINION

  Submarine deal has no mandate

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 30/04/2017

  » Over the next 24 hours we all are going to hear the Royal Thai Navy come clean with its procurement procedure for the secretly negotiated deal to procure three submarines -- and I for one am not holding my breath to hear anything earth-shattering.

• OPINION

  VAT increase low on govt priorities

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 21/05/2017

  » The rubber-stamp parliament of the coup leaders gave Thai people yet another scare over the past week when it announced it was looking to raise value-added tax (VAT) by another percentage point.

• OPINION

  Army needs to learn to be neutral

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 26/03/2017

  » The Prayut Chan-o-cha government's plans to forge reconciliation in the country seem to be falling flat after the Pheu Thai party came out to denounce the committee put in charge of the process.

• OPINION

  Military must accept the obvious

  News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 02/04/2017

  » The Central Administrative Court on Friday ruled the military junta's moves to take away the three passports held by the former Education Minister, Chaturon Chaisang, was a "serious violation" of the fundamental rights of the key leader of the previous government.

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