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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.
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.
Consult public before passing laws
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 18/08/2016
» There have been signs of relief and calls for healing from some quarters of society in the aftermath of the constitutional referendum. Now that the charter, which proposes a "half-baked democracy" that Thailand had 40 years ago, has sailed through, it seems like many of us can't wait for a new beginning.
Forced to wed a mysterious charter bride
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 14/07/2016
» At the beginning of a relationship, an unknown or ambiguous thing about a person whom we are attracted to usually excites us. Once the relationship gets more serious, we usually need to know the unknown and understand the ambiguity before committing ourselves further, let's say, to a marriage.