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23/05/2012 : Re: ''Ministry orders school to enrol pupils, launches bribe inquiry'' (BP, May 22)
THINKBOX The cost of education

23/05/2012 : My daughter has just started her G1 in a new school last week, and you can guess I'm now just living out of complimentary frozen food in Life's fridge and packed lunch, nothing more glorious than a decent left-over dinner from the day before.

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Who's to blame for the Greek tragedy?
23/05/2012 : Greece is following the road taken by several other crisis-ridden emerging economies over the past 30 years. Indeed, as I argued earlier this year, there are stunning similarities between this once-proud eurozone member and Argentina prior to its default in 2001. With an equally traumatic implosion _ economic, financial, political, and social _ now taking place, we should expect heated debate about who is to blame for the deepening misery that millions of Greeks now face.
EDITORIAL
Economy on a tightrope
23/05/2012 : Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was _ literally _ the picture of confidence in parliament on Monday. She was photographed on the parliament's TV system calmly sipping a drink while watching opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva speak.
Short-term relief
23/05/2012 : There have been complaints of rising prices in the past weeks. The most obvious examples are in the fresh markets and food stalls. Many vegetables have gone up in price.
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Thai Rath columnist Mud Lek (Iron Fist)
23/05/2012 : The government must clearly explain how it will stimulate the economy through its 2.4 trillion baht budget bill for 2013, which includes a deficit of 300 billion baht.
Pheu Thai MPs at each other's throats in local polls
22/05/2012 : The Pheu Thai Party appears to have no real foes to fight with and is instead warring on its own MPs in local government elections for seats on provincial and tambon administrative organisations and municipal councils. The fight has not always been clean, one MP was physically assaulted last week in an attack he says was politically motivated.
Govt must now take lead in peace dialogue
22/05/2012 : The government has long been paranoid that involvement of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation would internationalise the insurgency in the deep South and heighten the possibility of secession.
POSTBAG
Thaksin gets it right
22/05/2012 : Re: ''Red shirts' affair with Thaksin cools'' (BP, May 21).
THINKBOX
Triumph and the Trojan Horse
22/05/2012 : Snap-happy revellers never learn the lesson. Photographic records of sin aren't supposed to be worse than sin itself, but sometimes they are close. The latest incident, quickly dubbed the army scandal, involved a photo showing a group of soldiers in an act that looks like an orgy with a woman. A gang rape, some charged. Mutual consent, others defended. Punishment, however, has been rightly promised by the Army Chief against the participants. To observers, the moral and philosophical debates entail: is such punishment is meted out against the orgy, or against taking pictures of the orgy and posting them online?
Eurozone shambles will force Asia to adapt to survive
22/05/2012 : The eurozone has a scent of political revolution in the air. France's presidential election saw Nicolas Sarkozy rejected and the Socialist contender Francois Hollande replace him.
EDITORIAL
Public robbed of Dawei say
22/05/2012 : The government's decision to pour a massive amount of money into a single project in Myanmar deserved a much better public debate. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and ministers took advantage of a special cabinet meeting in Kanchanaburi province to pull a very fast vote on an issue that is little understood.