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Let's hear it for the year's real heroes
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 25/12/2017
» With the constant chilly breeze in the evening and nice temperatures during the day, the cold spell this year has been more generous to Bangkokians than the increasingly suppressive political climate (We have been through many rounds of political turmoil for years, but had rarely experienced this kind of pleasant winter.)
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Rights claims fall flat amid cadet scandal
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 27/11/2017
» Actions did speak much louder than words last week. The government on Tuesday announced its new national human rights agenda for government agencies. It didn't generate any news buzz. Over the following days, the government's top brass publicly endorsed the military's culture of corporal punishment, which allegedly involves rights violations, in the wake of the death of a military cadet. Their endorsement generated national news.
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Moving on from the great escape
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 25/09/2017
» If it hadn't happened in Thailand but in some other country, many of us in the media might have seen the Yingluck Shinawatra escape from a different angle.
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PM has put his reputation on trial
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 29/05/2017
» As well as being a sign of potentially worse things to come, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's posing of four leading questions last Friday was an act that perfectly demonstrated his unchecked egoism.
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Govt 'victories' become our nightmares
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 27/05/2017
» Being overly critical of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) may not help if you want to be in a state of sanity while gauging its three-year performance and trying to understand why the regime and its cheerleaders still think it has done a great job and should prolong its stay in power.
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Activist celebrates rights award ... in jail
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 18/05/2017
» As our dear military government busily prepares itself to boast next Monday about its achievements during the past three years on the anniversary of its seizing power, the parents of jailed student activist Jatupat "Pai Dao Din" Boonpattararaksa will today pick up the prestigious 2017 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights award on behalf of their son in South Korea.
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Senate lucky draw idea is huge gamble
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 01/03/2017
» One can only hope that a proposal to use a lucky draw as a means of choosing 200 members of a new ultra-powerful Senate is just a joke, intending to give us temporary relief from depressing political and economic realities. Otherwise, luck will become a determining factor in the future of our Upper House and our country.
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Thailand and Bhutan: A growing bond
Life, Surasak Glahan, Published on 06/01/2017
» As a Thai awkwardly dressed up in a gho, the Bhutanese traditional dress for men, wandering through Bhutan's capital city of Thimphu, I found myself amid interesting scenes where Indian pop culture seems to top the interest of young Bhutanese with Indian songs played in cafés and bars and Bollywood movies shown on television.
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Does Yingluck punishment fit the crime?
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 16/09/2016
» Both are the first female national leaders similarly alleged to have committed fiscal crimes of responsibility. They, however, faced the music of a different tune.
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Voters in the dark about reform 'changes'
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 06/08/2016
» Reform has become the buzz-word in the context of pre- and post-2014 coup Thailand. First, the defunct People's Democratic Reform Committee made a demand for national reform before elections. Since the military staged the coup, national reform has also been part of the key agenda of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). Now, the draft constitution that will be decided at the referendum tomorrow promises national reform as part of its key elements.
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