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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Women's plight in men's war

    Having lost her husband in the southern violence and forced to struggle for her son's freedom from detention in the Tak Bai crackdown, Yaena Salaemae has only one wish for International Women's Day. "It is peace," says the widow. "I just want peace back." Women suffer when their ...

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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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  • Forest dweller's fight for justice

    People kept staring at No-ae Mimee when he turned up at the Civil Court. And you cannot really blame them. No-ae's long hair was tied in a bun covered by a red turban. His lips were reddened and teeth blackened from betel nut chewing. His cotton shirt looked commonplace, but definitely not the ...

  • Ombudsman barking up the wrong tree

    Although an increasing number of foreigners now own land in Thailand through nominees or their Thai spouses, the ombudsman's claim that foreigners now own one-third of the country is simply just not credible. Ombudsman Siracha Charoenpanij (Photo by Kitti Woraranchai) And if the truth be ...

  • Women's plight in men's war

    Having lost her husband in the southern violence and forced to struggle for her son's freedom from detention in the Tak Bai crackdown, Yaena Salaemae has only one wish for International Women's Day. "It is peace," says the widow. "I just want peace back." Women suffer when their ...

  • Berlin and the Bolsheviks

    Berlin, Feb 10Overthrown kingdoms mark the first two highlights of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, commonly known as the Berlinale. On Feb 9 the festival, taking place amidst the temperature so cruel to tropical creatures that I'd venture to nickname the event the Brrrrrrlinale, opened ...

  • Water agencies just can't seem to communicate

    An old man sits on a makeshift wooden plank used as a walkway over flooded ground on Feb 8, 2011 after a flash flood in tambon Nom Kho of Sena district, Ayutthaya. (Photo by Sunthorn Pongpao) The conflicting statements from the various agencies about the current, unseasonal flooding in Sena ...

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  • Forest dweller's fight for justice

    People kept staring at No-ae Mimee when he turned up at the Civil Court. And you cannot really blame them. No-ae's long hair was tied in a bun covered by a red turban. His lips were reddened and teeth blackened from betel nut chewing. His cotton shirt looked commonplace, but definitely not the ...

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  • Ombudsman barking up the wrong tree

    Although an increasing number of foreigners now own land in Thailand through nominees or their Thai spouses, the ombudsman's claim that foreigners now own one-third of the country is simply just not credible. Ombudsman Siracha Charoenpanij (Photo by Kitti Woraranchai) And if the truth be ...

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  • Berlin and the Bolsheviks

    Berlin, Feb 10Overthrown kingdoms mark the first two highlights of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, commonly known as the Berlinale. On Feb 9 the festival, taking place amidst the temperature so cruel to tropical creatures that I'd venture to nickname the event the Brrrrrrlinale, opened ...

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  • Thanks Alphabet

    Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra knew all along that which country she wanted to visit first in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It's Brunei. The problem was she got to have better reasons to break the tradition set by past prime minsiters who always went to Laos first.Alphabetical ...

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  • Forest dweller's fight for justice

    People kept staring at No-ae Mimee when he turned up at the Civil Court. And you cannot really blame them. No-ae's long hair was tied in a bun covered by a red turban. His lips were reddened and teeth blackened from betel nut chewing. His cotton shirt looked commonplace, but definitely not the ...

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  • Politics of the First Lady's Outfits

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    • Sunday, January 30, 2011

    I love Michelle Obama. Actually, I mean I love her approach to First Lady's dress code. I don't even mean I love 'her style.' No, it's not her style that I keep a regular check once in a while, that's for the likes of my two Kates, and Middleton is none of them. It's apparently Kate Moss and Kate ...

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  • Slamming Body and More

    It's been almost a week since Big Mountain Music Festival closed its first curtain successfully, but the rage is still going on strongly in the media and, especially, across social networking sites.All right, I am not gonna beat around the bush now.  The "rage" is mostly stemmed from ...

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  • Sports and politics

    More and more politicians -- particularly those who are suspended from politics have become involved in sports. In the past, one of the most popular ways for politicians to appear on TV was sponsoring a boxing match. However, this has become less fashionable because it is costly during the economic ...

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  • The lily pond of Map Ta Phut

    Any (good) student of environmental management would have heard of the lily pond metaphor. For those who haven't, the story goes like this. Suppose you have one pond, in which a water lily grows. The plant doubles in size each day. If nothing is done _ no water added, no expansion made to the pond's ...

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  • My 2 Satangs: If You’re Abhi And You Know It Clap Your Hands!

    In a small piece of news this week there was good news for anyone who likes the colour blue as the Democrat Party was let off the hook in its dissolution case thanks to a technicality. No doubt this has given prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva cause to clap his hands in glee. Or not, considering ...

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  • A full circle after two years

    Two years ago today, I was in Australia on a semi-holiday. I had just hopped into bed in my hotel room – preparing for a relaxing evening in front of the television. I was supposed to deliver a lecture about the state of Thai journalism at the University of Queensland’s School of Journalism in ...

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