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    NLD believes Suu Kyi can be president

    News, Larry Jagan, Published on 23/11/2015

    » Myanmar's opposition leader is planning to be the country's next president after her party overwhelmingly won this month's polls. Although the constitution bars Aung San Suu Kyi from the position -- because she was married to a foreigner and her two children are foreign nationals -- she and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), are preparing to nominate her when parliament convenes at the end of January.

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    Making big waves

    News, Nattaya Chetchotiros, Published on 20/04/2023

    » Srettha Thavisin is setting out to whip up an "economic tsunami" and ride it to election victory with a promise of kicking the pandemic-battered economy into high gear.

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    Election rules need legal clarity

    News, Editorial, Published on 19/02/2023

    » After parliament's final session ended on Friday, there were calls for the government to dissolve the House earlier than the deadline of March 23. Needless to say, voters want to exercise their rights while parties want to start campaigning.

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    By lens, stage and paint, truth

    Life, Published on 10/12/2014

    » In 2009, Tanwarin Sukkhapisit made I'm Fine Sabai Dee Ka, a three-minute satirical film/performance art piece in which she locks herself in a cage placed in front of the Democracy Monument. Passers-by (both actors and unsuspecting pedestrians) take photographs and stop to ask her what happened. She smiles and repeats the same answer: "I'm fine in here." Tanwarin, who once served as the president of the Thai Film Director Association, is a prolific filmmaker who has made independent and mainstream films. In 2010, her low-budget production, Insects In The Backyard, made headlines when it became the first film to be banned under the 2006 Film Act (censors said the film depicted inappropriate images of student prostitutes and a penis).

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    Referendum rules spark huge outcry

    News, Published on 01/05/2016

    » The Election Commission has been attacked by human rights advocates for crippling the ability of voters to discuss the constitution draft in the run-up to the referendum.

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    Panda woe Number One

    News, Postbag, Published on 23/04/2023

    » Re: "Giant panda Lin Hui dies in Chiang Mai", (BP, April 20).

  • News & article

    Draft charter 'steals democracy'

    News, Nattaya Chetchotiros, Published on 09/03/2015

    » The draft constitution is fraught with flaws as the constitution drafters have come up with the wrong solutions that will only snatch democracy from the people, Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva says.

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    ICT keen to rejig Thaicom concession

    Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 27/08/2016

    » The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministry is looking to revise the amended satellite concession of Thaicom Plc in the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision reaffirming that the minimum shareholding in the company was against the constitution and telecom law.

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    The pot isboiling over

    News, Published on 03/01/2015

    » The task of writing the constitution has been compared to cooking, with many cooks in danger of spoiling the broth.

  • News & article

    Reforms overdue

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/02/2023

    » Re: "Cops red-faced as scandals rock force", and "Whistleblowers expose misconduct", (BP, Feb 13).

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