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    Keeping heritage above the race for tourist dollars

    News, Published on 04/02/2012

    » Once tourism becomes an industry and a commercial activity, profit becomes the driving factor in deciding which activity or cultural product, or type of performing arts, appeals most to consumers and the market. In this way, cultural treasures are transformed into commodities.

  • OPINION

    Justice for poor hinges on reform

    News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/01/2012

    » After 12 years of an exhaustive series of court battles, Paijit Silarak, the grassroots activist and arch enemy of Rasi Salai Dam, can finally let out a sigh of relief.

  • OPINION

    The prime minister's new challenge

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/02/2012

    » As head of a super committee charged with water resources management and flood prevention, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has accepted a real challenge which will prove against her critics that she is more than just a pretty face with a sense of high fashion.

  • OPINION

    Apple targets recruiting fees

    News, Published on 01/02/2012

    » There would be astounding double irony if the giant technology firm Apple can help to put a stop to one of the most pernicious and blatant problems of human trafficking in Thailand. But that is what the US firm pledged last month. It specifically named Thais as one of the most victimised groups of contracted workers.

  • OPINION

    Clarity, PM, for women's fund

    News, Published on 27/01/2012

    » It is no secret that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is no darling of women's rights groups. To them, she is only the proxy of her brother Thaksin, whom they believe still wields the real power behind this Pheu Thai-led administration.

  • OPINION

    Toasting Froc for a bad job

    News, Published on 08/02/2012

    » The government is to host a gala dinner at Government House this Friday to thank staff of the Flood Relief Operations Command and others who helped in the relief operations during last year's devastating flood.

  • OPINION

    Bangkok Today Columnist Phya Mai

    News, Published on 12/01/2012

    » Pheu Thai Party leaders must have the courage to push for constitutional amendments. This is a promise they gave voters during their campaign in last year's general election.

  • OPINION

    Yingluck on grand tour of the armed forces

    News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 12/01/2012

    » The visits to the headquarters of all three armed forces last month was just the beginning of a campaign by Defence Minister Yutthasak Sasiprapa aimed at boosting the image of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

  • OPINION

    Thawee pushes for peace by recompense

    News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 25/01/2012

    » Thawee Sodsong believes a new, friendly strategy of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre will succeed in quelling the violence and silence the critics who fear it will only inflame the situation in the restive deep South.

  • OPINION

    Give our kids a better deal

    News, Published on 13/01/2012

    » If children are the country's future, what lies ahead could indeed be grim when one child in every three comes from vulnerable and high-risk groups. We are talking about five million children under 15 years of age across the country. If this is not a cause for concern when the country observes Children's Day tomorrow, what is?

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