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Halt to water megaprojects offers hope
News, Published on 17/06/2014
» The recent announcement by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) that it has ordered state agencies to put on hold projects related to the Pheu Thai government’s 350-billion-baht flood control and water resources management scheme is significant, as it brings with it a glint of hope for a more rational and coherent approach to the sector in future.
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Facing uncomfortable truths
News, Published on 06/07/2014
» The latest edition of the London Review of Books — Europe’s most-popular intellectual periodical — makes uncomfortable reading for Thailand’s most capable politicians.
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Week of epochal events in Asia
News, Published on 25/05/2014
» A week, it is said, is a long time in politics. But events in Asia during the past week may define the region for decades to come.
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Stopping the cycle of blame through collaboration
News, Published on 27/05/2014
» I’m an incredibly opinionated person. Whether politics, religion, psychology, education or virtually any other topic, you can be almost certain that I’ll have a view that I’m willing to defend. Debate and dialogue play a critical role in my personal and professional life, from my time as a debate coach to my interactions with friends and colleagues. Yet as I’ve got older, I’ve become much more aware that however much knowledge I may gain, I could always be wrong — as could we all. Watching the debate rage over the coup in my adopted home of Thailand, never have I been more reminded of our collective fallibility.
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Learning from a long history of coups
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 06/06/2014
» As Thailand’s latest coup bears striking similarities and differences to its dozen precursors, it behooves the National Council for Peace and Order to learn from the past. The military’s seizure of power on May 22 is now accompanied by daunting challenges and pitfalls that are consequential for all who want to see Thailand regain its democratic traction and way forward.
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End farming reliance
News, Published on 20/06/2014
» Everyone should have a good quality of life. That should be the ultimate aim of any society.
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Charupong’s surprise ends up as a yawn
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 26/06/2014
» A clip of former interior minister Charupong Ruangsuwan announcing the launch of the Organisation of Free Thais for Human Rights and Democracy (FT-HD) on Tuesday morning at dawn came as a real surprise.
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America must not work against NCPO
Published on 30/06/2014
» There was a time when Thai-American relations were almost a love affair. The Americans got the kingdom off the hook with the British and French, who wanted retribution for Thai participation alongside the Japanese in World War II.
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Regime apologists
Oped, Published on 28/06/2014
» I have been disappointed and incredulous over the contents of PostBag for the past few weeks. It seems to contain little but apologias for military dictatorship, anti-Western venom, and childlike belief in the miraculous powers of the junta.
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Battling lese majeste law from a jail cell
News, Published on 29/04/2014
» I am sitting here in my prison cell late at night. The lights are on, the other prisoners are asleep and I sit alone hunched up against the wall. I am thinking of the times before my incarceration when I would be composing articles for the magazine, Voice of Taksin, at this time of night. I was the editor and publisher of this bi-weekly magazine. The work was exhausting but very rewarding as 30,000 copies would be printed and sold. Its publication was much anticipated by its readers and would be the focus for political discussion and comment. Some of the articles were incendiary because they were considered to be defamatory to the Thai monarchy by the Thai media and conservative political elite.
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