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Andrew MacGregor Marshall Profile picture
@zenjournalist
May 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
With school pupils in Thailand having to study online due to the covid-19 crisis, more people around the world can now see the tragic reality of Thai education. 1/4
The vast majority of online lessons for primary school children are just royalist propaganda. Very few online lessons teach crucial literacy and numeracy skills. 2/4 ImageImageImageImage
Meanwhile, an English lesson has been widely mocked because of the teacher's inability to speak English.
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Thailand's education system is among the worst in the world, due to its focus on indoctrination and rote learning. It is not designed to create smart skilled citizens, its purpose is to create obedient slaves. 4/4

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⚠️ UPDATE — I have more details from royal and medical sources about what happened to Princess Bajrakitiyabha last Wednesday, and also spoke to a specialist foreign-based ICU and trauma consultant to help interpret the information. 1/
To make this clear once again, I have no personal animosity against the princess, and while everybody knows I am not a fan of King Vajiralongkorn, his grief is clearly genuine and he deserves compassion and understanding right now. 2/13
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⚠️ UPDATE — Here is the latest on what we know so far about the death of Princess Bajrakitiyabha on Wednesday and what will happen next. You can also read the post on Facebook: facebook.com/zenjournalist/… 1/26
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⚠️UPDATE — Here is what we know so far about the health emergency suffered by Princess Bajrakitiyabha yesterday. While running with her dogs in Khao Yai national park she had a heart attack. She is only 44 years old. 1/9
She was initially taken to Pak Chong Nana Hospital where CPR was attempted for hours without success. Vajiralongkorn rushed to the hospital in a military helicopter. 2/9
A decision was made that the only viable option was to fly her to Bangkok for ECMO treatment, which is a way of keeping people alive when their heart and lungs cannot function en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorp… 3/9
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Aug 12, 2022
A fascinating note written by former prime minister written by former Sanya Dharmasakti in June 1979, while he was head of the Privy Council, details the meddling of Queen Sirikit and the rifts in the palace. 1/14 Image
The note says Sirikit's political meddling was causing severe problems in Thailand and the royal family had become "completely divided". It says King Bhumibol had warned that Sirikit became violent when angry. The situation was getting "getting more serious every day". 2/14
According to the document, Sirikit wanted Bhumibol to abdicate on October 14, 1973, when Thailand's military dictators fled into exile after a student uprising and the country entered a period of democracy. He was persuaded not to abdicate by his advisor Vasit Dejkunjorn. 3/14
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Jun 15, 2021
How bad are the problems at Thai royal company Siam Bioscience which have derailed Thailand's mass inoculation drive after just a week and caused delays in deliveries to Malaysia, Taiwan and the Philippines (and maybe more countries we don't know about)? Here comes a THREAD 1/15
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On June 2, Siam Bioscience held a weird ceremony with no journalists invited, presided over by Vajiralongkorn's right-hand man Satitpong Sukvimol with a speech by Princess Sirivannavari's bff Nualphan “Madam Pang” Lamsam, to mark the delivery of the first 1.8 million doses 3/15
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Apr 27, 2021
My latest #SecretSiam article tells the story of political godfather Newin Chidchob, and it struck me that like a malignant Forrest Gump, he was present at most of the disasters and scandals of recent decades. Here's a THREAD about his shady past secretsiam.news/p/mafia-bosses… 1/16
An early classic episode in Newin's career was when he paid some crooked police to bomb his own house, to try to make him look like a brave whistleblower at risk of being assassinated by his enemies. Professor @bkksnow wrote about it in this paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… 2/16 Image
In 1995, his vote canvassers were caught with a huge stash of his elections leaflets each with 120 baht stapled to them. The total haul was 11.4 million baht. Newin said he knew nothing about the vote buying antics of his canvassers and escaped charges. 3/16 Image
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