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Hillary decimates Tea Party hawks at Benghazi hearing
News, Maureen Dowd, Published on 26/10/2015
» Nobody plays the victim like Hillary Clinton. She can wield that label like a wrecking ball.If her husband humiliates her with a girlfriend in the Oval Office, Mrs Clinton turns around and uses the sympathy engendered to launch a political career. If her Republican opponent gets in her space in an overbearing way during a debate, she turns around and uses the sympathy to win a Senate seat. If conservatives hold a Salem witch trial under the guise of a House select committee hearing, she turns around and uses the sympathy to slip into the high-occupancy vehicle lane of a superhighway to the presidency.
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Digital television on brink of disaster
News, Boonrak Boonyaketmala, Published on 26/10/2015
» After six decades of stunted development, the state-oriented television industry entered a new epoch in 2014 when digital television technology became a reality, and 24 fresh television licences were granted to both old and new operators through an open bid administered by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission of Thailand (NBTC).
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Migrant crisis is proving very lucrative for some
News, Antony Loewenstein, Published on 26/10/2015
» Monetising the waves of refugees surging into Europe is not the most common human response to tragedy. One of the greatest mass movements of people in modern history has caused a huge outpouring of solidarity with those on the move. But it has also created anger, suspicion and violence.
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Bomb probe cannot stop
News, Editorial, Published on 26/10/2015
» Police, and presumably other authorities including the government and the military, have made a poor decision to create an exit strategy for the Erawan shrine bombing investigation. It must be hoped this decision does not come back to haunt them in the form of more violence.
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Sweeping dust under the carpet
Life, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 26/10/2015
» There's been a lot of effort on the part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to "regulate" streetside vendors. Silom Road was a prime target area, followed by Saphan Lek and various other locations in the city. In some areas, not only were vendors using up pavement space to sell their wares, they had also erected semi-permanent structures with steel reinforcements.
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Expats are a resource
News, Postbag, Published on 26/10/2015
» I’ve been reading about retirees in Thailand recently. Why is the Thai government so unwilling to take advantage of their expertise in their selective areas?
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