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Chula oath row portends our future
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 01/07/2014
» A graduation ceremony is not supposed to be an event full of suspense. Yet many people are eagerly awaiting the one being held by Chulalongkorn University on Thursday.
NBTC faces its moment of cyber-truth
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 17/06/2014
» It’s an unusual apology, perplexing and seemingly loaded more with what it omitted than what it let on about.
Prayuth must ignore urge to suppress
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 03/06/2014
» If Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha reads or watches The Hunger Games, he would know that what triggered the “revolution” is not the three-finger salute. It’s the public execution of an old man who first responded to the sign.
Singing songs of unity will not suffice
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 10/06/2014
» Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha is watching over us. He is developing dual-track railways, screening the 350-billion-baht flood-prevention projects, chairing the Board of Investment, going after those suspected of skimming from the rice-pledging project, playing nice to the Chinese while lobbying the nasty Americans and Australians, promoting tourism and overhauling the tax system.
NCPO must avoid return of patronage
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 08/07/2014
» Cronyism is one of the key factors that brought down the otherwise efficient and politically savvy regime of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, people with inside knowledge of the administration have noted over the years.
Will this coup kill or cure us of our ills?
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 27/05/2014
» In X-Men: Days of Future Past, the warring factions realised at the end it was mutually destructive to annihilate one another. So they sent Wolverine back in time to change the past so the future would not be so bleak.
Prayuth’s merry dance with time
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 24/06/2014
» We don’t know what kind of music Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha listens to. That is probably classified information. We only know the song he wrote for the Thai public is an easy-listening pop tune with its main message being a plea for time.
Moving back from the edge while we can
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 13/05/2014
» It doesn't take outsiders at The Economist, CNN or Financial Times to point out that Thailand is on the brink.
No such thing as a ‘clean’ witch-hunt
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 22/04/2014
» Are we to believe that a legal limbo or administrative void will simply happen and a new beginning will be born?
Abhisit’s plan is more than compromise
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 29/04/2014
» With “a way out of the political crisis” being flavour of the hottest month, let’s see what’s on the menu for Thailand’s solutions.