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09/02/2012 : Motorcycle taxi drivers have had to contend with extortion gangs for as long as we have had this convenient mode of transport shuttle us around to beat the city's horrendous traffic jams.
Nitirat, Nitired and Nitigreen don't mix

09/02/2012 : Politics is on the boil again after the armed forces, led by both the army chief and supreme commander, came out to oppose the Nitirat group in its attempt to seek an amendment to Section 112 of the Criminal Code.

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InMedia
Thai Rath Comment
09/02/2012 : The opposition Democrats risk falling into political oblivion if the party does not improve its performance.
Postbag
Thanks for nothing
09/02/2012 : Having lived in Thailand since the early 1980s, I very rarely comment on any of the government's actions. However, organising a party to honour the work of the Flood Relief Operations Command is just too much for me to understand.
COMMENTARY
Klity Karen left with leaden hearts
09/02/2012 : If you and your children had to suffer from lead poisoning and the court ordered the culprit to compensate you with only 230,000 baht for the crime, would you be happy about it?
GEOPOLITICS
For pan-Asian peace, a Pax Pacifica
09/02/2012 : While good relations between China and the United States are critical to Asia's future, this does not mean the region will become a Sino-American duopoly. The concept of a "G2" is never going to fly in Asia.
EDITORIAL
Rural doctors aren't helping
09/02/2012 : The Rural Doctors Society has done the country a favour with its reminder that there are Thais who would have trouble scraping together 30 baht even in an emergency. But the group has gone much too far in its attempt to take the side of the rural poor in the healthcare system.
The prime minister's new challenge
08/02/2012 : As head of a super committee charged with water resources management and flood prevention, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has accepted a real challenge which will prove against her critics that she is more than just a pretty face with a sense of high fashion.
NOISE
Fashion journalism, who and what does it serve?
08/02/2012 : There's a little rule to being a fashion writer (which could be, at times, applicable to a culture journalist). Call it elitism if you want, but it's not easy for fashion writers to not jump into argument once they start talking about fashion with friends who do not work in fashion.
COMMENTARY
Blind to the business of begging
08/02/2012 : There was an interesting piece of news last week that really impressed me about the cleverness of the guy in the story. The man was earning over 100,000 baht a month from begging _ far higher than the government's proposed 15,000 baht monthly salary for a new university graduate holding a bachelor's degree. With his wife acting as the guide, the man put on a pair of dark glasses and feigned blindness. The couple popped in and out of restaurants in Chon Buri, collecting change from the compassionate and earning 3-4,000 baht a day. Their game unravelled only after the couple had an argument. The wife grumbled about the husband's "big spending" at their rented air-conditioned bungalow, and a fight ensued. Police were called in to investigate the disturbance.
EDUCATION IN THAILAND
Without accountability, what reform?
08/02/2012 : More than a decade after the launch of reform, education in Thailand is still a chronic problem with no solution in sight.
InMedia
Post Today Editorial
08/02/2012 : In barring Nitirat from organising activities on campus, the administrators of Thammasat University lay themselves open to accusations of violating the spirit of democracy. They may also be accused of bias against the group, because many other activists have been allowed to hold seminars and other political activities in the university's auditorium.