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Two wasted decades in Thai politics
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 20/12/2024
» Now that Thaksin Shinawatra appears actively back in Thai politics, it is demoralising to look back at Thailand's wasted time and opportunities. Once a promising country on the way from democratic transition to consolidation in the late 1990s, Thailand has become semi-autocratic, and its rocky political trajectory over the past two decades is now structural. The traditional institutions of power that grew out of the Cold War have been calling the shots in earlier decades and are just unwilling to let the country move forward in the immediate years ahead.
Another wasted year in Thai politics
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 26/12/2025
» As Thailand winds down 2025 with an early election looming on Feb 8, the most consequential issue to watch in the coming year will be whether recent topsy-turvy political patterns of polls, protests, and military and judicial interventions give way to a compromise between the old guard clinging on to vested interests and the new generation clamouring for reform and change.
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Published on 25/03/2025
» Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra responds to opposition allegations made against her on the first day of censure debate in the House of Representatives yesterday.
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Published on 28/03/2023
» สภาอุตสาหกรรมแห่งประเทศไทย (ส.อ.ท.)งานเสวนาเรื่อง "วิสัยทัศน์การขับเคลื่อนภาคอุตสาหกรรมไทย" โดย 9 พรรคการเมือง ในงานประชุมสามัญประจำปี 2566 สภาอุตสาหกรรมแห่งประเทศไทย ภายใต้ธีมงาน "EMPOWERING THAI INDUSTRIES FOR POWERFUL THAILAND เสริมสร้างพลังอุตสาหกรรมไทย สู่ประเทศไทยที่แข็งแกร่ง" ณ ห้องประชุม Convention Hall A2 (ชั้น 22) โรงแรมเซ็นทาราแกรนด์ บางกอก คอนเวนชัน เซ็นเตอร์ แอท เซ็นทรัลเวิลด์ Photo By SOMCHAI POOMLARD---------------------------------------Published caption::Representatives of political parties competing in the upcoming election pose for a photograph at ‘Empowering Thai Industries for Powerful Thailand’, a forum organised at Centara Grand at CentralWorld yesterday, in which they showcased their parties’ visions for Thailand’s industries. SOMCHAI POOMLARD
Context is decisive in Thai high politics
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 28/02/2020
» In Thailand's high politics where governments survive or succumb, context is everything. After two decades of a political merry-go-round, marked by a series of elections, street protests, military coups, and judicial interventions only to end up with a problematic post-election rule under military domination, no deep expertise is needed to understand what has been happening in this land.
If Thai politics were good... part 2
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 04/09/2020
» #IfThaiPoliticsWereGood returned as a trending hashtag on Twitter earlier this week. The heavy rain may help give it a boost as people have taken to it to air grievances about the status quo, paint an ideal picture of Thailand and even made light of Thai politics. Here are a few memorable ones for your entertainment (and commiseration).
Thai politics: No country for young men?
Reuters, Published on 25/03/2018
» A 39-year-old motor parts billionaire and extreme sports enthusiast seeking to shake up Thai politics has been compared to France's Emmanuel Macron and Canada's Justin Trudeau for his youth.
Keep politics out of THAI rehab: Korn
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/05/2021
» Kla Party leader Korn Chatikavanij has warned the government to keep politics out of Thai Airways International Plc's (THAI) debt-rehabilitation and not to seek to revert the airline to its former state enterprise status.
The local politics of Thai soft power
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 29/04/2022
» It was yet another passing storm in Thailand's overflowing teacup. The overnight sensation of 19-year-old rapper Danupha "Milli" Khanatheerakul at the recent Coachella Music Festival in the United States has shaken Thailand to its core foundations and revealed much that is still right and all that is wrong with this country. At issue are the ramifications from her global showcase of Thailand's sticky rice and ripe mango on the Coachella stage in view of her talent and political standing against the local conservative establishment.
Making room for youth in Thai politics
Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 29/10/2022
» Thailand is heading towards national elections next year, and this is an opportune moment to ask how much room there is for the participation of youth in politics. The record to date has been ambivalent, and much depends on both political and social will to broaden the civic and political space.