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  • OPINION

    Fake or real, the audio is juicy stuff

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/07/2013

    » Deputy Defence Minister Gen Yuthasak Sasiprapa is caught in an awkward controversy, in which he may find it embarrassing to confront the military top brass, among them army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha.

  • OPINION

    Can a coup be justified?

    News, Published on 09/07/2013

    » Last week's military intervention in Egypt, supposedly to restore stability and political calm, has started badly. Supporters of the overthrown government of elected president Mohamed Morsi took to the streets. Within a day of declaring calm, the army killed at least 26 people. A campaign of nationwide arrests has begun.

  • OPINION

    Resilience needs finance overhaul

    News, Published on 09/07/2013

    » Resilience, like love, is difficult to define. Yet everyone _ from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to government agencies, company boards and community groups _ is talking about how to build or maintain it. Is resilience a useful concept or just a fleeting buzzword?

  • OPINION

    Question PM, not Supa

    News, Published on 09/07/2013

    » Re: ''Government questions Supa's agenda'' (BP, July 7).

  • OPINION

    A coup is unlikely, but PM must tread carefully

    News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 09/07/2013

    » Of course, the audio clip posted online, allegedly recording a conversation between fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and Deputy Defence Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapa has caused a stir.

  • OPINION

    Reviving 'Venice of the East' offers traffic congestion fix

    News, Published on 09/07/2013

    » Since the late 1990s, policymakers started implementing mass transit systems such as the BTS Skytrain, MRT and Airport Rail Link to deal with the notorious traffic congestion in Bangkok that has been part of the city for the past few decades.

  • OPINION

    Caught in web of sex, fungus and audiotape

    News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 09/07/2013

    » If Deputy Defence Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapa can get hold of some chong cao or caterpillar fungus now, he might want to take a double dose and stand up to the storm of doubt surrounding a YouTube audio clip with openness and valour.

  • OPINION

    Why repeating history doesn't always work

    Life, Published on 09/07/2013

    » During China's feudal period, three generations of Qing emperors spent 150 years constructing the magnificent imperial garden, Yuanmingyuan, which is commonly known as the Old Summer Palace. The Old Summer Palace was a compound of palaces, gardens, and other classical-style structures before a terrible invasion in the 19th century. Besides being a masterpiece of Chinese landscape gardening, the Old Summer Palace housed a very large number of artistic and cultural collections as a royal museum.

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