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Thaksin's return and 2025 prospects
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 03/01/2025
» Thailand's political environment last year was marked by machinations to keep the biggest election winner, the Move Forward Party, from power and to ensure the runner-up, the Pheu Thai Party, leads a coalition government the old guard can put up with. These manoeuvres after the May 2023 poll, initially forced Move Forward into the opposition and ultimately dissolved the party while bringing Thaksin Shinawatra back from self-exile in August 2023 for a perfunctory jail sentence and installing Srettha Thavisin as prime minister over the same period.
Red Bull case must rev up
Oped, Editorial, Published on 29/02/2024
» After a long delay, justice is starting to take its course in the notorious hit-and-run case involving Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya, the Red Bull scion who allegedly killed a policeman in the Thong Lor area of Sukhumvit in September 2012 before fleeing the country.
Cop bribery queries
Oped, Postbag, Published on 25/01/2023
» Re: "DSI suspends five officers suspected in Nauru consul embezzlement case," (BP, Jan 22) and "DSI must clear up image," (Opinion, Jan 20).
Hymn to power
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/04/2022
» Re: "'Soft power' is not built upon sweet music", (Opinion, April 19), and "Milli's sticky rice and mango stunt grabs world's attention", (BP, April 18).
Let's have vaccine clarity
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/02/2021
» The government's immediate tasks are to ensure the Thai people will have access to safe and fairly priced Covid-19 vaccines, preferably from diverse sources, and rev up education campaigns about their efficacy and risks.
Share the blame
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/01/2021
» Re: "Stipend fiasco reveals flaws", (Editorial, Jan 28). Many elderly Thais inadvertently received monthly living allowances for years, sometimes decades, without being aware that they were ineligible.