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EC, beware the chaff
News, Editorial, Published on 12/09/2024
» Opponents of the Pheu Thai-led government have wasted no time in lodging a plethora of petitions against the government in an attempt to bring it down through so-called lawfare tactics.
Fresh petition to disband govt
News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 10/09/2024
» A fresh petition was lodged on Monday with the Election Commission (EC) seeking the disbandment of the ruling Pheu Thai Party and five coalition partners for allegedly allowing themselves to be influenced by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Safer to stay, say stranded students
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 01/04/2020
» Several Thai students stranded in the United States have said they would rather stay put than return home and risk contracting or transmitting Covid-19 en route because the US has more than 160,000 Covid-19 cases.
Red shirts plead guilty to violence
News, Published on 28/09/2019
» Four red-shirt co-leaders have pleaded guilty for their roles in a violent 2007 protest outside the home of the late Privy Council president, Prem Tinsulanonda, apparently hoping the Supreme Court will give them clemency and a less severe punishment.
Court defers red-shirt ruling
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/09/2019
» The Supreme Court has decided to defer its ruling in a case against four red-shirt co-leaders yesterday, after the accused confessed to their roles in a violent protest outside the home of the late Privy Council president, Prem Tinsulanonda, in 2007.
Asean must aim higher at November summit
News, Kobsak Chutikul, Published on 10/08/2019
» 'Like red ants on a log floating downstream each certain it is controlling the direction of the flow." That was the acute observation of a coarse-skinned farmer staring at the TV screen at a small coffee shop in a 100-year-old market in Suphan Buri province in central Thailand when images of the grand Asean meeting in the capital Bangkok were being beamed across the world.
Suffering a case of the whirlygigs
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 07/10/2018
» It was the unlikely setting of the US Senate Judiciary last week which has sparked considerable debate on what constitutes drunkenness. There were references to a "stumbling drunk", a "sloppy drunk", a "slurring drunk" and a "belligerent drunk". But there seems to be a certain lack of creativeness in these descriptions. Perhaps a little European influence would liven things up a bit.
Throwing the cat among the pigeons
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 30/09/2018
» The rapidly increasing numbers of pigeons (nok pilab) has ruffled a few official feathers in Bangkok. There was bit of a flap after authorities warned that citizens caught feeding the birds would face a stiff fine, explaining the pigeons were spreading disease. These birds divide opinion, some calling them "rats with wings", others more generously "doves without the PR".
Democracy to dictatorship
News, Postbag, Published on 23/09/2018
» Re: "Even dictators can't monopolise a poll", (Opinion, Sept 22).
City Hall keeps pigeons in crosshairs
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 22/09/2018
» Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) officials descended on Wat Bukkhalo in Bangkok's Thon Buri district on Friday to pursue the campaign to remove pigeons from bird-infested places.