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Censure fiasco a win for Prayut
News, Editorial, Published on 01/03/2020
» It comes as no surprise that the Prayut Chan-o-cha coalition government survived the no-confidence vote on Friday.
Stuck with status quo
News, Postbag, Published on 01/03/2020
» I think the Future Forward Party offered hope that things would change and this government has crushed that hope. It is only natural that young people would feel disappointed and are expressing that disappointment.
The girl from the Black Country
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 01/03/2020
» My thanks to readers who pointed out that Janice Nicholls, who featured in last week's column, did not have a Brummie accent at all, but a Black Country lilt, hailing from Wednesbury, just west of Birmingham.
Stop fearmongering
News, Postbag, Published on 02/03/2020
» I find those letters that try to evoke the fear of communism very depressing. It's sad that some people seem to have forgotten that the last time this fearmongering prevailed, the US and its allies spent trillions of dollars, killed millions of Asians and alienated a good part of the world including many of their own citizens.
When our govt gets into the fake news game
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 02/03/2020
» Browsing through social media platforms, many of us must have experienced a wave of information warfare propelled by dubious and mysterious social media users whose profile pictures are images of animals or scenery and whose friend lists are very short.
Student rallies need careful handling
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/03/2020
» The wave of student "flash mobs" has been spreading fast in Thailand's universities and high schools. It began on the second day after the Constitutional Court on Feb 21 ordered the dissolution of the Future Forward Party (FFP) and banished its executive committee members from politics for 10 years at the Pridi courtyard in Thammasat University, Tha Prachan campus, with a few hundred of students attending.
Mask supply crisis looms
News, Editorial, Published on 02/03/2020
» Recent images of people waiting in a long queue to buy face masks are a warning sign about a potential crisis concerning the Covid-19 outbreak, which reflects poor management by the government.
Weathering the Covid storm
Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 02/03/2020
» The novel coronavirus outbreak has become a hot topic at home and in the office, something we've talked about almost every day as the health authorities try to educate people how to protect themselves from infection. Specialists have suggested that people shouldn't panic, but I can't help feeling nervous.
Don't leave any of the kids behind
News, Bundit Kertbundit, Published on 03/03/2020
» Two years and three months. That's how academically far behind poor Thai students are when compared to their richer peers, according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa).
Moral right to protest
News, Postbag, Published on 03/03/2020
» Veera Prateepchaikul in his March 2 column, "Student rallies need careful handling", could more plainly have stated that the students have moral right and reason on their side. The government of the man who overthrew Thailand's supreme rule of law in 2014 to make himself prime minister, whose coup also trampled into the dirt, yet again, Thailand's form of democracy, now preaches that the law is sacred and warns about touching the high institution. The hypocrisy is obvious to the least intelligent or informed, let alone to the students at Thailand's top schools and universities.