(photo credit: central_vietnam on Flickr) The Nation reports: Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra has vowed to mediate any peace effort between the government and Thaksin Shinawatra if his Democrat Party would allow him to do that. The only man on the government side who has met Thaksin lately, Sukhumbhand told The Nation in an exclusive interview [...]
(photo credit: isriya on Flickr) The Nation‘s resident rant machine Sopon Onkgara in his latest piece: With the appointments of three committees on political reform, reconciliation and fact-finding – each comprising prominent personalities – we are seeing the familiar act of buying more time to remain in power, while feigning ignorance of the real crisis, [...]
Thitinan Pongsudhirak opines in the Bangkok Post (emphasis added): [T]he government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva clearly cares about how foreigners view Thailand and how foreign takes should be consistent and conform to official positions. The government does not seem to detest the foreign media per se. It selectively prefers the foreign perceptions that toe [...]
(photo credit: Prachatai on Flickr) No matter which government we have in power, human rights remain essentially an alien concept in Thailand. The Rohingya affairs, the drug war, the perpetual emergency decree – you name it. And yet things have taken a strange, or should I say depressing, turn when the country was elected as [...]
…and so the saying goes. As any long-term observers would know, this is a proven fact in Thai politics. The website 2bangkok.com has dug up an old picture of a Palang Dharma Party newspaper advert, featuring the former party leader Chamlong Srimuang and his replacement, the then fresh-faced Thaksin Shinawatra. (Source: Full page ad in Bangkok [...]
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