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Thaksin urges coalition unity
News, Panumet Tanraksa and Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 25/12/2024
» Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra called for unity among coalition parties to ensure the government gets to complete its full term in office.
Let's thank Chuvit
News, Postbag, Published on 12/02/2023
» Re: "Top cops linked to illegal site/ CCIB to quiz Thai actress in Taiwan/ 46 arrested over macau888", (BP, Feb 9, 10).
Cannabis bill vetting to be done by August
News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/06/2022
» Bhumjaithai Party MP Supachai Jaisamut, chairman of a House committee scrutinising the cannabis and hemp bill, said the committee should finish work on the bill by August.
CPTPP procrastination not an option
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 29/06/2021
» It must be said, right from the start, that the debate on the merits and demerits of Thailand's joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) has been going on for far too long. Despite lengthy debate, there is still no consensus on whether the country should join the world's premier free-trade agreement.
Covid-19 exposes our broken system
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/04/2020
» The government's constant mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic evokes two images in my mind. One is a badly infected wound. The other is an overblown balloon ready to burst.
Battle for democracy
News, Postbag, Published on 12/01/2020
» Re: "Tradition corrupts", (Postbag, Jan 10)
East Asian leadership rises in Bangkok
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 05/11/2019
» The 35th Asean-related summits, which ended on Monday, saw the region's leaders display their magnanimity through collective leadership and common commitments for a stronger and more prosperous East Asia. The absence of US President Donald Trump was a blessing in disguise, since it meant the global media had to focus on the substance of their talks. These days, East Asian leaders are bolder and more willing to work together despite their domestic constraints and the longstanding bilateral disputes among them.
Noom caught in crossfire of legal spat, Aim ducks for cover
News, Mae Moo, Published on 27/01/2019
» TV news presenter Kanchai "Noom'' Kamnerdploi is facing legal action after getting caught in a widening dispute between a high profile lawyer and social advocate.
Together, we can transform China
News, Andrew Browne, Published on 26/11/2018
» The behaviour of Chinese officials at last weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Papua New Guinea, reportedly barging into the foreign minister's office to try to cut mildly critical language on trade from a final communique, seemed intended to signal that China won't budge an inch on US demands. Commerce Minister Zhong Shan has declared that those who assume Beijing will cave to President Donald Trump's bullying "don't know the history and culture of China". As a matter of fact, they might understand it better than he thinks.
'Resistance' does not equate to crisis
News, Noah Feldman, Published on 07/09/2018
» On the surface, it sounds a bit like a coup d'état. An anonymous senior official in Donald Trump's administration has written an op-ed article for The New York Times saying the official is part of the "resistance" to the president from within. But don't get taken in by the hype. What the writer describes is a lot like what happens in many, probably most administrations: Officials who share some but not all the president's goals use bureaucratic tools to avoid or delay implementing presidential initiatives they don't like.