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Reform needs open minds
News, Editorial, Published on 03/09/2015
» Members of the National Reform Council (NRC) are scheduled to vote on the draft constitution, jokingly labelled by Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam as "a beauty queen but not yet Miss Universe", this coming Sunday.
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Education not just a numbers game
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 03/09/2015
» The education system of Thailand is comparable to Singapore only in one aspect -- the number of hours students spend in the classroom. In November, 10% of the 38,000 state schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) across Thailand will reduce compulsory daily classroom hours by two -- from 8am-4pm to 8am-2pm. This means students will spend six hours a day in the classroom or 840 hours a year, instead of eight hours a day or 1,200 hours a year.
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Fair cop, guv - and here's your reward
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 03/09/2015
» Every time I see police displaying bundles of amphetamines seized from drug dealers in a crackdown, I always ask myself if the pills -- neatly packed in black garbage bags -- are really amphetamines. Could they be just painkillers? And why do the police have to show those seized items?
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Government must tread carefully with cash-injection scheme
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 03/09/2015
» By launching the emergency economic stimulus package which targets low-income people both in the city and upcountry, the government has sent out a clear message: "There is no need to worry about economic stagnation".
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Checks and balances needed to curb money politics
News, Stephen Young, Published on 03/09/2015
» For over 25 years now the cancer of "money politics" has been metastasising in Thailand. Cutting out -- even just back -- the corruption and inequalities brought about by money politics is Thailand's immediate democratic priority.
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Should regime not have deported Uighurs?
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 03/09/2015
» While Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon and his deputy Udomdej Sitabutr are attending China's first-ever military parade to commemorate Japan's World War II surrender in Beijing today, investigators in Bangkok are busily gleaning information from two detained foreign suspects to probe their hypothesis that the deadly Erawan shrine blast was in retaliation for the deportation of over 100 Muslim Uighurs to China in July.
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