• OPINION

  Call off rap song probe

  News, Editorial, Published on 30/10/2018

  » Just as the sun rises every day, the Royal Thai Police and its Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) were predictably quick to pounce on the flash-mob popularity of song sensations Rap Against Dictatorship (RAD).

• OPINION

  Tackling the 'lone wolves'

  News, Editorial, Published on 18/03/2019

  » The worst massacre of innocents in eight years occurred in peaceful Christchurch on Friday. In a 36-minute orgy in two separate mosques, 50 people were shot dead. A definitely demented but functioning man created an unwatchable Facebook video as he killed from close range. Heroes emerged from the mosque mats and in police ranks, but the worst of the killer's work was done.

• OPINION

  Walls close in on free press

  News, Editorial, Published on 06/04/2018

  » With news reports and commentaries swapping between praising and criticising the ruling regime, most mainstream media staff survive direct state intimidation. But two senior journalists recently ran foul of the junta.

• OPINION

  Another tragedy in the making?

  News, Editorial, Published on 09/10/2022

  » On Thursday afternoon in a small province in northeast Thailand, an ex-policeman killed 24 pre-schoolers and 13 adults.

• OPINION

  Lessons from Pimrypie

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 13/01/2021

  » Government offices can draw lessons from the Omkoi district office of non-formal and informal education regarding the "drama" of a charity project by popular YouTuber and online retailer Pimrypie.

• OPINION

  We must all act to curb hate speech

  News, Editorial, Published on 27/12/2020

  » Reports of online hate speech against Myanmar nationals over the recent Covid-19 outbreak at a seafood market in Samut Sakhon are of grave concern.

• OPINION

  PM must embrace youthful ingenuity

  News, Editorial, Published on 25/10/2020

  » Although the October 6, 1976 massacre marked a bloody end to the hope of student activists in the aftermath of the popular uprising three years earlier, the spark ignited by the 1973 generation has flickered back to life this year as protests led by a new student movement have flared up across the nation.

• OPINION

  Toxic tea will not stamp out critics

  News, Editorial, Published on 23/08/2020

  » Early Thursday morning, a routine flight from Siberia to the Russian capital Moscow made an emergency landing in Omsk after a passenger, Alexei Navalny, a fierce anti-corruption campaigner and Kremlin critic, fell violently ill after drinking a cup of tea.

• OPINION

  Plug digital VAT bill holes

  News, Editorial, Published on 15/06/2020

  » The cabinet last week approved a first-of-its-kind bill requiring foreign digital platforms to pay a value-added tax (VAT) from payments they received from users in Thailand.

• OPINION

  Don't worsen political woes

  News, Editorial, Published on 22/01/2020

  » The Constitutional Court's decision to acquit the Future Forward Party (FFP) of seeking to overthrow the monarchy on Tuesday offered a reprieve not just for the party but also for a boiling political climate. However, the slew of legal hurdles awaiting the FFP, its leaders and political activists in the coming months are a reminder to the international community that political turbulence in Thailand is here to stay.

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