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WATCH: Thai parliament quarrel sparks ‘Heil Hitler’ tirade

By Siam Voices Thu, May 03, 2012 9:40PM UTC View Comments

By Saksith Saiyasombut After last month’s public misbehavior involving a Thai MP peeking on a pornographic image on his phone (we reported), another crass misdemeanor played out for everybody to see in the Thai parliament. This time, a heated debate escalated in one MP giving the Hitler salute and screaming “Heil Hitler” at the top of...

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Thailand: Survey blames Facebook for teen pregnancies

By Siam Voices Tue, Feb 28, 2012 5:27PM UTC View Comments

By Saksith Saiyasombut We recently had Valentine’s Day and like every year, the Thai Moral Taliban Police has been patrolling the streets to crack down on young lovebirds who might commit the crime of love (making) – since some survey suggests that many teenagers are hell-bent to loose their virginity on February 14. Well, apparently...

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Thai education failures – Part 1: Ridiculous O-NET questions

By Siam Voices Thu, Feb 23, 2012 10:14PM UTC View Comments

By Kaewmala We’ve heard much lamentation about the sorry state of Thai education and how Thai students perform so poorly compared to those in other countries far and near. Not only that Thai students rank near the bottom in international standardized test scores, they even flunk national standardized tests year after year. Thai students...

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Tongue-Thai’ed! Part X: The one where Prayuth calls Nitirat ‘abnormal’

By Siam Voices Tue, Feb 07, 2012 10:30AM UTC View Comments

By Saksith Saiyasombut “Tongue-Thai’ed!” encapsulates the most baffling, amusing, confusing, outrageous and appalling quotes from Thai politicians and other public figures – in short: everything we hear that makes us go “Huh?!”. Check out all past entries here. Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha is by a stretch the most outspoken highest-ranked military officer in recent history....

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Foul-mouthed chat app has Thai Cultural Heralds up in arms

By Siam Voices Mon, Feb 06, 2012 10:30AM UTC View Comments

A screenshot of Simsimi, a chat-roboter application that has the Thai Culture Ministry up in arms - one wonders why...? (Source: Twitter)

By Saksith Saiyasombut We thought we would hear less of Thailand’s National Knee-Jerk Outrage Machine (“กลไกสร้างปฏิกิริยาอย่างไร้ความยั้งคิดแห่งประเทศไทย”, trademark pending), also known as the Thai Cultural Heralds or ThaiMiniCult, now that that there’s someone new in charge at the Ministry of Culture. But apparently it was just a matter of time, and now they’re back to bemoan...

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