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Somchai must start the healing process

One day after Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat gave the go-ahead to the police to use force to disperse anti-government protesters, the premier met with foreign diplomats, reassuring them that his government was still able to run the country. If....

• THAI TALK

  As crisis manager, Somchai proves totally disastrous

  HE tried desperately to sell us his nice guy image. He even listed national reconciliation as a top priority item in his first speech. But when the real test came on Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat proved he was not only....
• TELL IT AS IT IS

  When winning is the only thing, the country is casualty

  WHEN this column goes to print, a coup-de-grace may or may not have been dealt to end the riots in the streets of Bangkok. Sooner or later, everything comes to an end, but to what end? When all sides of the conflict declare themselves a winner,....
• MINI EDITORIAL

  Put your money where your mouth is

  US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama spent 90 minutes on Tuesday night discussing how they plan to pull the US economy out of a financial crisis that is the most dire since the Great Depression. The world was watching with....