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  • The trap of moral righteousness

    A mass prayer from the clergy. An appeal for non-violence from reformist monks. An army of cooks and cleaners from a fundamentalist Buddhist sect. Don't say that religion and politics should not mix. This popular misconception is just that, a misconception. The challenge now is how to make our ...

  • Sex in the monastery

      We used to be shocked by sex scandals in the clergy. Given the endless stream of those wrongdoings, we no longer are. Heterosex has also become old news. The rage now is about gay and paedophile monks.  The latest scandal involved an abbot in Nakhon Si Thammarat. His lover accused him of being ...

  • Should we tell our daughters not to trust the world?

    As a mother, the news that grabbed my attention over the weekend had nothing to do with the politics that are near the boiling point. It was about a boy gang rape.A nightmare for any parent, the incident involved three boys, aged 8, 11 and 12, raping a 7-year-old girl neighbour.The boys said they ...

  • Thaksin goes for broke

     Guess what Thaksin Shinawatra had in mind when he decided to go on air Sunday night, donning a red shirt and fingerpointing two privy councilors, two senior judges and an academic for plotting the overthrow of his regime three years ago.In the video-linked address to his supporters in Chiang ...

  • Abhisit, Hun Sen, Thaksin -- and what the three PMs shouldn't have done

    That you have three Prime Ministers interacting does not guarantee you will have a brilliant meeting of the minds. As events during the past few days regarding the Thai-Cambodian relations have suggested, you can have three Prime Minister materials and still end up with no wise man.Since it is ...

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  • Thaksin goes for broke

     Guess what Thaksin Shinawatra had in mind when he decided to go on air Sunday night, donning a red shirt and fingerpointing two privy councilors, two senior judges and an academic for plotting the overthrow of his regime three years ago.In the video-linked address to his supporters in Chiang ...

  • Thaksin's old broken record

     BangkokPost.com  Those of you who are fans or no-fans of exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra should have, by now, learned what he had said during his phone-in interview from somewhere abroad with the Dstation of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship on Sunday.As ...

  • Sex in the monastery

      We used to be shocked by sex scandals in the clergy. Given the endless stream of those wrongdoings, we no longer are. Heterosex has also become old news. The rage now is about gay and paedophile monks.  The latest scandal involved an abbot in Nakhon Si Thammarat. His lover accused him of being ...

  • The lie is out, now see truth for what it is

    Nukid used to be fervent fan of Thaksin Shinawatra. Not any longer."I used to like him because his policies helped us rural folk," explained my household helper, referring to the 30-baht medical scheme and the one-million-baht village fund which are dismissed by his critics as handouts and ...

  • Should we tell our daughters not to trust the world?

    As a mother, the news that grabbed my attention over the weekend had nothing to do with the politics that are near the boiling point. It was about a boy gang rape.A nightmare for any parent, the incident involved three boys, aged 8, 11 and 12, raping a 7-year-old girl neighbour.The boys said they ...

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  • Hun Sen's latest antic unbecoming of a premier

    I wonder whether it is still proper to address Mr Hun Sen as the prime minister of Cambodia.  Or whether he deserves to be addressed Mr Prime Minister, given his latest antic displayed over the weekend at the Thai-Cambodian border.The timing of Mr Hun Sen’s weekend visit to the border was viewed ...

  • Land security comes first, not money

    The rationale is simple enough. If you want the services that are crucial to your well-being, you must be willing to pay for them.This economic reasoning is behind the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), an incentive measure which is being adopted in various parts of the world to convince farmers ...

  • A comprehensive water policy is needed

     by Veera Prateepchaikul While the hot summer is just two months away, many parts of the country is already experiencing water shortage as water level at many dams and natural sources has dropped markedlyAccording to the Irrigation Department, 30 provinces, mostly in lower North and the ...

  • Forest eviction plan to steal from the poor

    Ulterior political motives aside, the Khao Yai Thiang controversy highlights how draconian central land control, legal impotency and endemic corruption are causing systematic land theft from the poor.But it is a pipedream to hope that the government will use the controversy to clean up the ...

  • Are we suffering from compassion fatigue?

    It appears as if our nation is suffering from “compassion fatigue” (a jargon coined by the United Nations and widely used during the 80s when Thailand was overwhelmed with Indochinese refugees).Initial reactions to the devastating earthquake in Haiti by the Thai media and the Thai government ...

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