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Pass clean air bill now
Oped, Editorial, Published on 15/12/2023
» PM2.5 returns again this year, with a critical surge reported in the capital city. Even so, there is a reason for people to be optimistic as the government is determined to have the much-awaited clean air legislation drawn up next year.
Facing up to dope changes
Oped, Editorial, Published on 17/09/2022
» Delays to the second reading of the cannabis and hemp bill are just disheartening. Instead of giving the bill a chance, MPs, most of them from the Democrat and Pheu Thai parties, on Tuesday voted to suspend debate at the second reading. The bill now goes back to the committee that has already spent three months revising the bill, for another round of changes.
OAG loses 'Boss' focus
News, Editorial, Published on 17/08/2021
» The Office of the Attorney General has come under the spotlight once again, after its prosecutors aired their frustrations over a TV series broadcast on Channel 3.
Jab memo sows mistrust
Oped, Editorial, Published on 07/07/2021
» Following a public uproar, the Public Health Ministry yesterday decided to provide booster vaccines for frontline health personnel as soon as possible.
Weed policy is still hazy
News, Editorial, Published on 22/03/2021
» After parts of the cannabis plant were taken off the country's narcotics list, the commercial prospects of cannabis-related products have become promising. Many business operators, including those listed on the stock market, have launched business plans to cash in on the government's move to partially legalise the once-taboo and criminalised plant.
A charter for the people
News, Editorial, Published on 06/03/2020
» In June 2016, 13 activists were arrested for distributing "Vote No" leaflets in Bangkok in the lead-up to the constitutional referendum. They were charged with the crime of "breaking the law".
Deal with proxy vote MPs
News, Editorial, Published on 10/02/2020
» The Constitutional Court ruled on Friday to keep the the 2020 fiscal budget bill alive and ordered MPs to hold a new vote on the second and third readings, during which illegal proxy voting was found when the votes were held originally.
Speed up charter push
News, Editorial, Published on 19/07/2019
» Even though the Democrats have said constitutional amendment is incorporated as part of the coalition government's manifesto, it is pointless for them or other proponents of this agenda to expect the No.1 direct beneficiary of the 2017 charter, namely Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, to give charter change his full support. The premier already made it clear on Wednesday that there was no rush to alter the constitution, while also cautioning that the process is "lengthy".
Lift the Voice TV gag order
News, Editorial, Published on 15/02/2019
» The broadcasting regulator's complete shutdown of Voice TV, and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's continued exploitation of free airtime to promote himself in the lead-up to the upcoming general election are both highly unethical and unjustified.
Hypocritical cyber bill
News, Editorial, Published on 03/01/2019
» Foreign Affairs Minister Don Pramudwinai, in his op-ed published on Tuesday in the Bangkok Post, underscored "a digital Asean" as one of the priorities which Thailand as the Asean chair envisions for the region to move "towards the blessings of peace, freedom and prosperity". On the same day, Vietnam's cybersecurity law, described by critics as "a totalitarian model of information control", took effect.