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Putting the people first
News, Published on 03/06/2012
» Anyone keeping up with news and current events in Thailand in the past week could not help but be struck by the tremendous difference in the behaviour of national political leaders here and that of the visiting leader of Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy Party. As Aung San Suu Kyi was taking her first steps outside the country since 1988, most of that time spent under house arrest, the Thai parliament descended into yet another display of extreme partisan and at times juvenile behaviour. In contrast Mrs Suu Kyi looks and acts the part of a consummate political leader, stemming from the impression that everything she does is with the best interests of the people of Myanmar at heart. There seems little doubt that the real reason Myanmar President Thein Sein cancelled his trip to Bangkok to attend the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok last week is that he feared being upstaged by Mrs Suu Kyi, who gave a keynote address at the conference on Friday. She has certainly upstaged local political leaders.
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Parliament is a circus
News, Published on 03/06/2012
» The incident last week in which opposition MPs hurled objects and abuse at House Speaker Somsak Kiatsuranon during a House session was a disgrace to the country.
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A drink with a bit of history
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 03/06/2012
» There was a report last week that the famous Thai whisky, Mekhong, after being withdrawn from the domestic market for a couple of years, is being relaunched, this time as a rum and aimed at ''an upscale market'' rather than the common herd. Experts will tell you Mekhong has always been a rum anyway, being primarily made from sugarcane/molasses.
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Damned by dysfunction
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 03/06/2012
» The Democrats and the People's Alliance for Democracy once again found common cause in their fear of amnesty for the bogeyman which might set up his return. They showed a mutual willingness to discard the democratic process and use thug-like intimidation and violence to achieve their goal of stopping the controversial reconciliation bill.
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Obama's Vietnam vet welcome
News, Published on 03/06/2012
» US President Barack Obama took an unusual if welcome step on the country's Memorial Day in late May, and defended the military veterans of the Vietnam War. It took a few hours, but the irreconcilable, recidivist military haters took to their spittle covered keyboards in retaliation and self-defence.
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