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		<title>Unwanted news, Rangoon electricity &amp; irrationality</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/10/21/unwanted-news-rangoon-electricity-irrationality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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Burma’s government claims to welcome complaints about malpractice, inefficiency and corruption against those in public service. But a recent case of a man imprisoned for repeatedly complaining about electricity problems speaks to how easy it is in an irrational system for the complainant, not the government officials, to wind up in trouble.
In early August, U [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1307&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thai lottery not child’s play in Burma</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/10/03/thai-lottery-not-childs-play-in-burma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ratchasima.net/?p=1294</guid>
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The Supreme Court of Thailand on Wednesday found that a former deputy minister and two ex-officials had failed to comply with a number of laws when they set up a scheme to legalize two- and three-digit lotteries.
The politically motivated case has attracted a lot of media interest and online commentary. By contrast, the judgment this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1294&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pinning hope on a hopeless constitution</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/09/18/pinning-hope-on-a-hopeless-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://ratchasima.net/2009/09/18/pinning-hope-on-a-hopeless-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ratchasima.net/?p=1287</guid>
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Last year, amid the death and debris in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, Burma got a new Constitution. Now people inside and outside the country are readying themselves for a general election of some sort, followed by the opening of a new Parliament, which is when the charter will take effect.
The ballot is expected in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1287&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand’s “unsubstantiated” police abuses</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/09/07/thailands-unsubstantiated-police-abuses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ratchasima.net/?p=1273</guid>
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Thailand’s representatives to the United Nations still cling to the outdated idea that if they turn up at a big get-together and make nice comments about how they cherish human rights, then everyone will think things are fine in the land of smiles.
Not surprisingly, they are unhappy when other people tell a different story. So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1273&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangkok court shoots self in foot, again</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/09/07/bangkok-court-shoots-self-in-foot-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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A court in Thailand inched closer to its counterparts in neighboring Burma last week when it sentenced an anti-coup protestor to 18 years in prison. The Bangkok criminal court convicted Daranee Chanchoengsilapakul on three counts of lese majesty arising from statements she made in a rally to support the ousted prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1275&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thai police put crime report before medical help</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/08/21/thai-police-put-crime-report-before-medical-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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A television station in Thailand broadcast an interview early last month with Nuch Phosri (above), a mother who is raising two sons alone on a meager income. Nuch is having an especially hard time because one of her sons is paralyzed. But he wasn’t born that way. He was shot.
Nuch’s boy, Virjit Sriraksa, was riding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1265&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sound and fury after Suu Kyi verdict</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/08/16/sound-and-fury-after-suu-kyi-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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The verdict handed down against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her co-accused in Burma this week surprised no one. The trial was throughout political, not legal in character. The only real question has been what, if anything, anyone else will do about it.
A chorus of angry statements from across the world quickly followed the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1256&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sons of sorrow</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/08/09/sons-of-sorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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Accompanying all the latest to-do over whether or not Burma’s regime is trying to obtain nuclear weapons has been the usual background noise about the menace of its conventional armed forces. Foreign pages’ editors excitedly describe the army as having half a million troops, as if they are all poised on the border to spill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1244&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Six men, two years, Hinthada</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/07/24/six-men-two-years-hinthada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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Two years ago a court in Burma sentenced five farmers to four years’ jail for allegedly causing a public disturbance; a sixth man received eight years for two counts of the same offence. Tomorrow, on July 24, the five will have served half of their terms. In all likelihood, they will have to serve the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1230&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ban’s visit a watershed moment</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/07/11/bans-visit-a-watershed-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Political analysts and international journalists have criticized the visit of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Burma last week. Various observers have described it as ill-advised and fruitless. Some have remarked that Ban risked his reputation to achieve nothing.
What was striking about his visit was the level of negativity that accompanied it from the moment it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1223&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Torture still a dirty secret in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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(การทรมานยังเป็นความลับที่สกปรกในเมืองไทย)
A little over a week ago, the Bangkok Post reported that a special inquiry unit under Thailand’s Justice Ministry had asked the public prosecutor to lodge charges against six police officers for allegedly torturing a man in their custody.
The police in Ayutthaya, near Bangkok, hooded Ekkawat Srimanta and beat him all over his body to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1210&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics, not law, will determine Suu Kyi’s fate</title>
		<link>http://ratchasima.net/2009/06/22/politics-not-law-will-determine-suu-kyis-fate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Awzar Thi</dc:creator>
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At a meeting of lawyers in Hong Kong this April, Aitzaz Ahsan described how as counsel for the Chief Justice of Pakistan in the petition against his unconstitutional removal from office during 2007, neither the president nor any other senior official had even read the charges brought against the judge, which they had signed. Had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratchasima.net&blog=1058093&post=1203&subd=ratchasima&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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