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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.
Happy days are here, the news says so
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 22/07/2014
» Minor model Ubonwan “Amy Maxim” Sirikittirat has successfully gone through breast augmentation surgery. Each of her boobs is now twice the size of a baby’s head.
Regime shows politicians the back door
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 05/08/2014
» Why are people wondering whether the coup leader Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha will take on another role as prime minister?
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.
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.
When peace seems such an ugly word
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 06/05/2014
» The emphasis on the expression of thanks is made dramatic, as an act of sarcasm should be. Indeed, the gesture could have come across as being excessively theatrical had it not been tinged with a measure of sincerity.
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.
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.
Gridlock makes losers of us all
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 01/04/2014
» As I sat trapped in the morning traffic yesterday — the summer sun blazing and no hopeful signs on the road ahead except car bumpers extending as far as the eye could see — a thought formed in my head. What a loser country we have become.