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Home: It's so close, and yet so far away
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 02/04/2012
» When Michael Buble, Alan Chang and Amy Foster-Gillies co-wrote Home (of which the lyrics above are rewritten to give a local flavour), there was no way they could have known it would echo so resoundingly with Thaksin Shinawatra. The tune was a breakthrough hit for Canadian singer Buble in 2005, one year before Thaksin was bumped from office by the coup.
Hold high the great red banner
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 05/03/2012
» You have red villages. So, we'll have a red district. You have a red district. So, we'll have a red province.
Battle looms to hold on to cheap labour
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 12/03/2012
» 'Asean chief warns firms of labour shortage", reads a headline in the Bangkok Post on Saturday. The story says the secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Surin Pitsuwan, is worried about the opening up of Myanmar which could compel its migrant citizens working in factories, trawlers, houses and the like overseas to return to their country.
Pheu Thai says the bus stops here
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 09/01/2012
» The issue of buses will most certainly be dropped in the cabinet's lap again this year. This time, do not expect the kind of road blockages which once resulted in the project moving nowhere.
The prolonged saga
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 06/02/2012
» Who could have imagined that the violence in the troubled South would have reached the point that it has today? It seems to be dragging on for a long time, but hopefully not forever.
Rubber might give Nattawut needed bounce
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 20/02/2012
» Bored with the uncontested results in the South over the past several polls? Nattawut Saikuar promises a more exciting finish in the next election.
Civil service in a rush to prepare for AEC
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 22/02/2012
» Civil servants are not immune to the ambitious plan of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to turn the region into a free-trade community in 2015.
Transport Co is taking the wrong route
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 16/01/2012
» The Transport Co chief apparently has many problems to sort out. The state enterprise firm is trying to crack down on illegal vans running inter-provincial services. According to its own estimation, about 6,000 vehicles provide such services despite having no licence or approval from Transport Co, the agency responsible for inter-city routes. Thus far, it has successfully forced many of them to operate under its control, but more are still on the roads. Transport Co and the Land Transport Department stand to lose money from those illegal passenger vans as they do not have to pay route concessions and fees to the agency. It is unacceptable to allow these illegal vans to compete for passengers with the ones legally approved by the agency.
Thaksin's shuffle tune
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 23/01/2012
» Let's say the average life expectancy of a cabinet is around six months. By the time Yingluck Shinawatra serves her four-year term, the country will have the Yingluck VIII or IX administration.