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Stop cheating flood victims
News, Published on 18/02/2012
» After repeatedly expressing her concern for the plight of those whose homes and livelihoods were ruined by last year's great flood, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has understandably moved on. The focus now is on the huge and costly infrastructure projects, so beloved by politicians, which are supposed to stop such a calamity from recurring. But, in the rush to launch these new schemes, let us not forget that there are still those who are struggling to put their lives back together after the ravages of nature were compounded by shabby treatment from the government and private sector.
Scoring political points at the public's expense
News, Published on 18/02/2012
» Re: ''Govt whitewashing bombings'' (BP, Feb 17).
As ever a tourist, not terrorist, haven
News, Arglit Boonyai, Published on 18/02/2012
» By now the bombings that occurred on Sukhumvit 71 on Tuesday have become old news. So has the fact that those responsible made a complete and utter mess of whatever their plan was. Whatever you believe their intention was, terrorism, assassination, general mayhem, I think we can all agree these incompetent bombers never intended to destroy their rented home, attack a taxi driver and blow off their own legs. That just wasn't the plan.
A plague of legal scholars seeking to subvert ethics
News, Thirasant Mann, Published on 18/02/2012
» Nitirat is not pronounced "nitty rat" and does not mean "a rat with nits (baby lice)". The word, derived from Pali and Sanskrit, translates as "ethics of the citizenry" and in today's parlance means political science. In Thai, it is written one way (Nitirasadorn) and pronounced another (Nitiraad), giving one the impression that what you see isn't quite what you get. Which makes it an apt name for the group of lecturers whose recent lallations about the lese majeste law have caused alarm in certain quarters and made people wonder what's brewing in the political pot. So let us tackle Nitirat head-on, questioning it as we would an individual whose motives are suspect.