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People’s Party’s diplomatic 'elegance' rings hollow
Oped, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Published on 16/01/2026
» On Jan 11, the People’s Party held a high-profile event to showcase its “People’s Government”, offering a glimpse of its proposed executive leadership. Among the key speakers was Pisan Manawapat, a former diplomat and senator, designated as the party’s future foreign minister.
Paetongtarn must avoid past trends
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/10/2023
» It came as no surprise that Paetongtarn Shinawatra, former prime minister Thaksin's youngest daughter, was overwhelmingly voted as the new leader of the Pheu Thai Party on Friday.
Chadchart needs more time on the job
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/09/2022
» Bangkok governor Chadchart Sitttipunt has come under fire from critics over failing to solve flood problems in the capital after it was lashed with heavy rain last Tuesday night.
Rebel with a cause Netiwit riles 'adults'
Oped, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 05/03/2022
» When I read a while back that Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal -- a young political activist, was going to Chulalongkorn University, it struck me as inconceivable.
Student protesters must be respectful
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/08/2020
» The sudden announcement of a 10-point demand for reform of the monarchy at a student protest at the Rangsit campus of Thammasat University on Aug 10 was, indeed, unprecedented, daring and shocking for many Thais.
This year must not see a repeat of 1976
Oped, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 15/08/2020
» If Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is really serious about averting the current political crisis stemming from the confrontation between pro-democracy and right-wing factions, he must immediately take steps to have the charter rewritten and set up a drafting panel.
Update the computer law
News, Editorial, Published on 18/04/2018
» If events over the past two weeks do not convince the government to write an actual law covering computer fraud, maybe nothing will. The first unfortunate event was to threaten a Chiang Mai magazine editor with a computer crime charge over something that had nothing to do with computers (or crime, come to that). The second was the reluctant admission by the country's second mobile phone company of security misbehaviour, putting tens of thousands of customers at risk. That is not a crime.
Manacled again
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/04/2018
» It has been quite an early summer harvest for the regime combines baling up inconvenient voices.
Walls close in on free press
News, Editorial, Published on 06/04/2018
» With news reports and commentaries swapping between praising and criticising the ruling regime, most mainstream media staff survive direct state intimidation. But two senior journalists recently ran foul of the junta.