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Vote puts regime rivals in Catch-22
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 04/08/2016
» Opponents of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) are in a "damned if I do, damned if I don't" situation when they cast their vote in Sunday's referendum on the draft charter.
Thai expert new No.2 at US embassy
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 11/08/2016
» Peter Haymond, a career diplomat with a long personal relationship with Thailand, has returned to Bangkok as the deputy chief of mission at the US embassy.
GT200 scam tests regime's mettle
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 23/06/2016
» The scandal of GT 200 has come back to haunt the Thai military again after a British court ordered a Briton serving a 10-year jail term for making bogus bomb detectors to forfeit cash and assets worth nearly £8 million, some of which should be paid in compensation to countries that bought the fake devices, including Bahrain, Lebanon, Niger and Georgia.
Don't run bike taxi rivals off the road
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 19/05/2016
» Like other unsolved problems this country has been facing for decades, the safety and reliability of motorcycle taxis are being addressed through authoritarian means, using nationalism and a perceived threat to national security as a pretext to ban services by foreign operators who have more innovative solutions than our inefficient and incompetent regulators.
Exercising might is not always right
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 31/03/2016
» 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority."
Will US interests trump rights at Asean meet?
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 11/02/2016
» Leaders of the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have something to look forward to after Valentine's Day.
Restraint is best PR strategy for the premier
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 18/02/2016
» After a short honeymoon period following the power purge that ousted the Yingluck Shinawatra government on May 22, 2014, Prime Minister and chief of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has never been short of embarrassing gaffes and outbursts directed at the media.
State propaganda isn't the media's job
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 10/03/2016
» Journalists across the country celebrated their big day last Saturday, National Reporter's Day, not long after TV anchorman Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda, who was sentenced to more than 13 years in jail for embezzling money from MCOT, bowed to public pressure to go off the air.
Oppression can't triumph over dissent
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 07/01/2016
» Less than two weeks after the May 22, 2014 coup, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) handed out leaflets to Bangkokians explaining why then army commander-in-chief Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha had to topple the caretaker civilian government of Yingluck Shinawatra.
Statesman's anti-graft wisdom is easier said than done
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 11/12/2015
» Statesman and Privy Council president Gen Prem Tinsulanonda is physically and mentally healthy for a 95-year-old, retired four-star general.