EDITORIAL

N Korea even harder to predict than usual

China's desire to prevent a collapse of the regime and flood of refugees is one stabilising factor

OVERDRIVE

Stick with His Majesty's sufficiency theory, it might save us
RIGHT AFTER THE 1997 financial crisis, His Majesty's concept of a sufficiency economy was widely circulated. He has been the champion of the sufficiency theory for the past several decades and has initiated thousands of projects to help improve the life of the poor. What he has found is that Thai people would be happy enough if they could live within their means.
BANGKOKIAN

When Thai politics takes a kinky turn
Move over "Bangkok Dangerous", there's another film waiting to take Bangkok by storm. Though this one has yet to be given a title, it has all the ingredients of "Sex, Lies and Videotape" - a kinky blockbuster about a sexually repressed woman's husband who has been having an affair with her sister.
EDITORIAL

Thailand needs to show leadership quality
The government must get its house in order before hosting the upcoming Asean summit

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Wise thoughts on |democracy from Thaksin

I agree with Thaksin Shinawatra when he says: "Thai democracy is at a crossroads. I would like to urge everyone concerned to give freedom to the Thai people to exercise democratic power. Don't think that they are less educated, they are poor. I think they have better understanding of democracy than many who have had better education."

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