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Fortune-tellers & politics in Thailand
Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/07/2016
» Public figures cannot avoid fortune-tellers, observes former-PM Abhisit, but predictions for careful living, not policy. Everyone from Gen. Prayut to Thaksin uses them.
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Toyota Thailand to cut 800 workers
Jon Fernquest, Published on 06/07/2016
» Voluntary layoffs with compensation & promise to be hired back within a year for contract employees, 40% of Toyota's 16,477 workers.
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"Be united" song is "Not be united" song critics say
Jon Fernquest, Published on 09/06/2016
» Song urges Northerners to "not be fooled & manipulated by anyone" while "southern people love democracy & freedom" according to the song.
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Police reform: Promises but little progress
Jon Fernquest, Published on 19/05/2016
» Young well-connected police officers get promotions from their connections. Police have lost faith in their own organisation.
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Pracharath: 76 provincial enterprises to boost rural economy
Jon Fernquest, Published on 18/04/2016
» With focus on agricultural products, tourism & OTOP, first social enterprise already underway in Phuket & Chiang Mai, with end-of-year deadline for the rest.
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Premocracy 2.0 in the 2010s?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 05/04/2016
» In the 1980s General Prem shared power with politicians, delegated economics to technocrats & was untainted by corruption, can it work again?
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Military given police powers
Jon Fernquest, Published on 31/03/2016
» Aimed at fighting criminals who cause trouble for the public, critics say powers too vague & could lead to abuse of power.
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Showdown over Supreme Patriarch
Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/03/2016
» Phra Buddha Isara on how Wat Dhammakaya's rise to power is a problem, if power corrupts & absolute power corrupts absolutely, as the saying goes.
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Amnesty International: Human Rights Report 2015-16
Jon Fernquest, Published on 25/02/2016
» Restrictions on media & political gatherings, military courts for civilians, lese majeste, attitude adjustment sessions & forced disappearances, all ways dissent silenced in the name of security, says Amnesty International.
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Time to fix Sangha Act
Jon Fernquest, Published on 23/02/2016
» Current Sangha Act unresponsive to public concern over temple corruption, rogue monks & commercialisation of Buddhism & lacks public accountability.
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