Right after the coup, Ptayuth’s junta began summoning and rounding up academics and other leading Thai thinkers, and homes have been raided. Many have fled Thailand, refusing to surrender. What is left in Thailand today, as can be seen in Thailand’s press, is very little independent thought. One report of such raid, on a family,…
For decades, Thailand had tried to reform its education system, as Thai students, in general, on international test, on average, did very poorly. The problem finally came up that the Thai education system, is not real education, but indoctrination, and skills such as critical thinking and analysis, is gravely missing. However, with Thailand’s cultural reality,…
Prayuth’s junta is in a great deal of insane moves, like arresting anyone, who holds up three fingers in public, as a sign of protest against the coup. In fact, the insanity is to the point, Prayuth went on TV, to say he has no problem with people raising three fingers, but quote: If people…
Just briefly, the Thai military have come out with a propaganda campaign, to bring back happiness to the Thai people, and as it now controls all of Thailand’s information medium, minus much of social network, most of Thailand communication medium, have went on a “Love Binge” pumping out a great deal of “Lets Love Each…
In the movie, based on a true story, Schindler’s List, at a concentration camp, a Jewish women, an engineer building a housing complex to hold the Jews, screamed at a Nazi officer, in charged of building the camp, that the buildings of a housing compound, was not according to the German Construction Code and was…
There has been a great deal of talk globally, if Thai army chief, Prayuth, invoking Martial Law, just staged a “Coup.” In Thailand, as most press expert know, about 90% of Thai press works for the Bangkok Elite Establishment and their proxies. So there is virtually no discussion or narrative on the issue, inside Thailand.…
Wondering, why Thailand’s economy and business is turning sour, and consumer confidence is tanking badly? You do not have to take my word for it, but please do a deep Google search, as a few years back, the US$ billionaire, iconic global class investor, Warren Buffet, said something interesting. Buffet, then made some remarks, that…
A few days ago, I was told of a story, about an attempt to break Thailand “Political Grid-Lock.” A Chulalongkorn University, where the university is a staunch Royalist that is anti-Shinawatra and support Suthep’s PDRC, engineer department graduate, where the department is one of the most influential academic department in Thailand, where the graduate also…
I have not followed Voice of America (VOA) for a while now, as during my involvement with Thailand, I have always found VOA, to be mostly, the Voice of USA Embassy, in Thailand. But with much awakening, in global journalism, I noticed, from re-tweets, that VOA, was on a path to more independent news. And…
Yingluck made an incredibly brave move, going to the anti corruption unit, to defend herself, against corruption charges, most say is politically motivated, that most global press, for months, have been saying, the charges are not legitimate. (Up-Dated) Apart from going to the anti-corruption unit, Yinglucvk have also gone to the Constitutional Court to defend…
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