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It's a power grab, not a push for reform
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 27/11/2013
» All parties must come to an end. So must all political protests. The country's biggest anxiety right now is how the anti-government rally will end.
People's council can't succeed minus dialogue
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/12/2013
» When anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban said he wanted to set up a "People's Council" to reform the country, he made almost everyone scratch their heads and say, "What on earth is he talking about?"
Drums of war imperil 'good people's rally'
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/12/2013
» One of my best friends works in an office building next to Lumpini Park, where a hard-core anti-Thaksin Shinawatra group staged a protest for several months with little public support.
Blanket bill will only stoke deep South tensions
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 06/11/2013
» If Thaksin Shinawatra believes that he can "set zero" for the deep South by extending the power of his blanket amnesty bill to also cover the southern insurgency, then he is dead wrong.
Media gives short shrift to South issues
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/09/2013
» For the past decade, our country has been trapped in two bloody conflicts. One is the divisive colour-coded politics. The other is the southern violence.
Politicians ignore plight of the poor
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/10/2013
» Every October, we get to revisit two significant events in contemporary Thai politics _ the Oct 14 students' uprising in 1973 and the Oct 6 massacre three years later.
Unprincipled capitalists need to feel the heat
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/10/2013
» Rows and rows of denuded mountains stretch as far as the eye can see. That is what many of the once green mountains in Nan have have now become.
For students, first the cram, then the crush
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/09/2013
» Sunday was Car-Free Day, but traffic in the Muang Thong area on Chaeng Watthana Road was bumper to bumper from 5am.
Mae Jaem dam suicide threat must be heard
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/10/2013
» The name Mae Jaem evokes a romantic Shangri-La like image in many Thais' minds.
We educate unfairly, and favour the few
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/09/2013
» The central university admission exam will not take place until June next year. But for some 120,000 Mathayom 6 students, the race toward the finish line has already begun.