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Regime irked over Europe rights rebuke
Thailand has expressed disappointment with a recent European Parliament resolution that urges Thai authorities to address what it says is a deteriorating human rights situation in the country.
Published: 10/10/2015
Writer: Prangthong Jitcharoenkul
The European ParliamentтАЩs press release says the resolution, which was supported by 581 to 35 votes during its Thursday session in the Belgian capital of Brussels, is non-binding.
However, the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on its website yesterday the resolution shows EuropeтАЩs тАЬmisunderstandingтАЭ of the governmentтАЩs work to ensure that politics and the right to liberty remain on the right track..... (read more).... http://m.bangkokpost.com/most-recent/725224
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Army unit helps Isaan folk find 'correct political understanding'
JITTRAPORN SENWONG
THE NATION October 10, 2015
"CORRECT" political understanding has been given to people in 20 provinces in the Northeast - with good feedback received, Lt-General Thawat Sookplang, the commander of the Second Army Area, said yesterday.
The Second Army Area undertook the mission through the Centre for Reconciliation and Reform, sending staff to talk with people of different political opinions.... (read more)... http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politic ... 70591.html
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'Don't rely on democracy' for charter
Charter drafters have been told to avoid relying solely on the "principles of democracy", as Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha expressed hope that the new constitution would ensure there is no repeat of last year's coup.
Published: 11/10/2015
In a special тАЬMessage to the PeopleтАЭ on Saturday, Gen Prayut said the process of writing the new charter was closely linked with efforts to build national reconciliation.
But he said the new constitution must reflect the reality of problems which had forced the military to topple the Yingluck administration last year.
"DonтАЩt rely on the principles of democracy or 'unlimited liberties' as the basis [for drafting the charter] without consideration of where the real problems are,тАЭ Gen Prayut said in the statement, which was read out by government spokesman Maj Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd in a televised broadcast.... (read more)... http://m.bangkokpost.com/news/725748?re ... PLvLmtq93K
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Re: Protests update
October 12, 2015
Editorial Opinion
Charter chairman Meechai sizes up the graft threat
The former chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee who drafted the 2007 constitution, Seri Suwanpanont, recently recalled the framers of the so-called "people's constitution", or the 1997 charter, who thought decentralisation of administration could help tackle the problem of vote-buying and corruption.... (read more)....http://m.bangkokpost.com/opinion/726448
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Re: Protests update
12 October 2015
Arrest Warrant Issued for ex-PM Thaksin for Failure to Appear
BANGKOK тАФ A Bangkok court today issued an arrest warrant for fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra after he failed to turn up for a defamation case filed against him by the army.
The ruling would appear to mean little as Thaksin lives abroad anyway to avoid a jail sentence handed down in 2008 for graft, but it is another setback for the former telecom tycoon with some seeing it as the latest attempt to ensure he never returns to power.... (read more).... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.ph ... 6§ion=
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ThailandтАЩs Economy Driven Off a Cliff
Posted by: John Le Fevre October 12, 2015 in Economics, Featured, Headlines, Politics, Spotlight, Thailand
The opening of the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 70) and attendance by Thailand Prime Minister and coup master General Prayut Chan-o-cha was a case of fortuitous timing тАУ enabling the junta propaganda machine to deflect domestic attention away from a raft of worsening economic data.
Once regarded as an Asian tiger cub economy, Thailand today more closely resembles the fading footprints of tigers that strode the earth aeons ago.
From once being the economic and industrial powerhouse of developing Southeast Asia, Thailand is rapidly regressing down the path that saw neighbouring Myanmar subject to years of international sanctions. Its one saving grace to date has been its geographical location and importance to the American pivot to Asia..... (read more).... http://www.establishmentpost.com/thaila ... off-cliff/
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Ultra-royalist steps up lese majeste purge against Facebook and Youtube
Submitted by editor2 on Tue, 13/10/2015
The ultra-royalist group in Thailand has targeted Facebook and Youtube, saying that the webs allowed lese majeste contents to be distributed.
Maj Gen Rienthong Nan-na, the head of the so-called Rubbish Collection Organisation, an ultra-royalist Facebook group known for its witch-hunt against people allegedly defaming the monarchy, issued a statement on Tuesday, 13 October 2015, saying that he will file criminal defamation charges against Facebook and Youtube, including, many people allegedly defaming the monarchy, for defaming him.... (read more).... http://prachatai.org/english/node/5539
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Editorial Opinion
Is the coup a symptom of deeper ills?
Forty-two years ago today, the kids did what their parents never dreamed of doing. Fired up by youthful courage and idealism, they led the popular uprising that finally overthrew the "tyrant trio", ending the country's three decades of military oppression.
Published: 14/10/2015
Writer: Sanitsuda Ekachai
I was a first-year student then. Like the rest of the country, I believed the reign of fear and terror was finally behind us. How wrong we were.... (read more).... http://m.bangkokpost.com/opinion/728900 ... fUutGIJA88
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Pheu Thai against outsider PM in charter
The Pheu Thai Party on Wednesday fumed over proposals to allow provision for a non-MP to become prime minister in the new constitution.
Published: 14/10/2015
Pheu Thai acting deputy secretary-general Chaowalit Witchayasut reiterated the party's strong objection to an outsider becoming prime minister and for non-elected senators.... (read more).... http://m.bangkokpost.com/news/729840
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Thai junta plan to seize $30m from ousted PM Yingluck Shinawatra
October 13, 2015
Lindsay Murdoch
Bangkok: Thailand's military government has issued an order to seize US$16 million ($30 million) in assets from ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra over a failed rice subsidy scheme for farmers.
A Thai court has also issued an arrest warrant for Ms Yingluck's exiled brother Thaksin Shinawatra, after he failed to turn up for a defamation case filed against him by the army.... (read more).... http://www.smh.com.au/world/thai-junta- ... k7wdl.html