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The teachers at risk of detention
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 06/12/2015
» In the halls of higher learning, some academics believe the Thai military is waging a war against teachers who encourage their students to think critically. Attachak Sattayanurak, an economics and political history professor at Chiang Mai University, says the ruling junta is engaging in Orwellian “thought control” and trying to produce a generation of “stupid” students.
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Child sex case dropped, but a life still left in ruins
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 11/10/2015
» On June 8 last year, the life that American engineer Christopher Lee Hobbs had been building for himself and his family came tumbling down. The 56-year-old was arrested in Pattaya on six counts of molesting two underage boys — a Thai and a Cambodian — and faced the prospect of 42 years in prison.
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Students play game of follow the leader
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 19/07/2015
» At Ramkhamhaeng University, the path from student activism to national politics is a well- trodden one. But for some students now enrolled at the open university, there is no irony in supporting the military government and having the chance of one day participating in parliamentary politics themselves.
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'Sin City' races NCPO to clean up its act
News, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 31/08/2014
» Pattaya officials are racing to clean up the resort's beaches and vice spots to try to shake off the "sin city" tag and prevent the military stepping in as they have done in Phuket and Hua Hin.
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A different school of thought
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 14/09/2014
» 'We don't have a flag ceremony at 8am," Mechai Viravaidya said. "I have learned that children's brains seem to be able to absorb things much better in the morning, so I make them skip the ceremony in the morning and go straight to class.
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Nothing to see here
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 27/07/2014
» For more than 40 years, Kao Bart was a lively village of 170 households tucked away in the mountains of Buri Ram’s Non Dindaeng district. Now it stands as a creepy, abandoned town no one dares set foot in.
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