Our live coverage of the 2009 Thai Update held at the Australian National University (and organised by the National Thai Studies Centre) will start at about 9 AM today.
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1 Frank Lee // Nov 5, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Recent research ‘on the street’ in Bangkok tends to confirm my own view that the ‘big three’ in terms of intellect (i.e. Abhisit, Korn, Jurin) have done about as much as could be reasonably expected so far this year in relation to what little ‘political capital’ they possess as senior partners in a weak coalition government.
PM Abhisit deserves credit for having the courage to insist on his Democrat Party providing the Education Minister (Jurin) and for installing fellow Oxford alumni Korn as Finance Minister at considerable cost i.e. having to cede “Grade A” (read most lucrative) ministries such as the Interior and Industry to the ‘Buriram Mafia’.
Providing Korn can keep corruption at a manageable level and Jurin has time to deliver on his wholesale reforms to the business of producing knowledge workers instead of industrial ‘cannon fodder’ then Abhisit One would be deserving of at least a passing grade in my opinion.
Bottom line:
There is no magic wand – “politics is the art of compromise”.
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