AS A former member of the National Reform Steering Assembly working to turn the reform blueprint by its predecessor, the National Reform Council, into action, Assistant Professor Khwanchai Duangsathaporn well realises that reform needs to materialise and to be seen as a tangible success.

Kwanchai Sarakham, a hardline red-shirt leader from Udon Thani, on Wednesday turned himself in to authorities to serve two years in jail for conspiring to murder rival yellow shirts.