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Tourism and taxis; what is a fair fare for all?
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 28/10/2016
» Imagine you are a first-time visitor to Bangkok. You disembark at dawn at the vast, illuminated Suvarnabhumi airport, exhausted from a long-haul flight. Then, together with your spouse and children, you drowsily push your trolleys packed with luggage toward a taxi stand that has no queue of waiting passengers as dozens of airport taxi drivers eagerly await their turn, praying they get a customer who will net them the highest fare.
Regime must prove its stance on graft
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 23/09/2016
» Being the younger brother of the junta leader and prime minister may not be the best thing in Thailand right now.
Regime must get its head out of the sand
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 30/09/2016
» Ostriches bury their heads in the sand when they're scared or threatened, the myth goes. But in reality, it's an optical illusion, according to National Geographic Kids.
Thais have every right to expose state faults
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 08/10/2016
» 'Are you Thai?" is a catchphrase Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha loves asking people whom he thinks give our beloved country a bad name.
Can Prem-style govt achieve 'Thailand 4.0?'
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 25/08/2016
» Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is due today to lead his cabinet ministers and chiefs of the armed forces and police to wish Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda a happy 96th birthday, which actually falls tomorrow.
Duterte should learn from Thai drug policy
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 02/09/2016
» At the invitation of Japan's Dokkyo University, I was in Manila earlier this week to attend a media forum where I rubbed shoulders with journalists from Southeast Asia and Japan.
Might-is-right mentality hard to dislodge
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 16/09/2016
» The mug throwing incident at a Korat school was just a small example of the authoritarian attitude and might-is-right mentality which plague our schools and society at large.
Shackling students tarnishes regime image
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 07/07/2016
» The main photo on the front page of the Bangkok Post yesterday summed up the current political situation in Thailand.In the photo, a group of young men in prison garb and forced crew cuts walked barefoot with their ankles shackled from a jail van to hear a court's decision on whether to extend their detention, as requested by investigators.
Regime's war on graft mustn't discriminate
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 14/07/2016
» A day after Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited Samut Sakhon to meet with thousands of her compatriots in the country's western fishery province amid a chaotic reception, National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) chief and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha signed an order to transfer the provincial governor and three other senior provincial officials to inactive positions with immediate effect.
China must act peacefully despite tough talk
News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 21/07/2016
» In April, Chinese President Xi Jinping told foreign ministers from 26 countries at the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Chinese capital that Beijing is committed in maintaining peace and stability in the region and pledged to work with Southeast Asia in turning the South China Sea into a "sea of peace, friendship and cooperation".