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  • THAILAND

    Junta urged to replace rice scheme

    Online Reporters, Published on 05/06/2014

    » Former Democrat MP for Phitsanulok Warong Detkitwikrom has called on the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to put an end to the "corruption-plagued" rice-pledging scheme of the previous government.

  • LIFE

    Smiling in plain view

    Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/10/2014

    » It's very rare for him not to smile. He smiles when he speaks. In fact, he even smiled when he was hauled into a police truck on the night the military announced Thailand's 19th coup. He also smiled — as some photographs showed — when he was subsequently brought back twice to a military camp.

  • LIFE

    Art and coup: Four years and counting

    Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 23/05/2018

    » Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of the May 2014 coup d'etat. While it continues to underpin the political landscape, the coup also sparked an unprecedented rise in Thai artworks with political messages. A new political art exhibition took place almost every month since May 2014.

  • THAILAND

    Hardcore red-shirt to quit politics

    Online Reporters, Published on 30/05/2014

    » Hardcore red-shirt and pro-Thaksin activist Suporn Atthawong announced his is giving up politics after the military released him from detention.

  • THAILAND

    Students greet PM with 3-finger salute

    News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 20/11/2014

    » A group of Khon Kaen student activists surprised Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha with an anti-coup greeting during his first visit to the Northeast yesterday. 

  • OPINION

    Plan doesn't rate

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/07/2022

    » Re: "Govt plans to charge foreigners more than Thais for hotel rooms", (BP, July 6).

  • LIFE

    The AI game

    Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 28/06/2019

    » Arthit Suriyawongkul has got a pretty impressive list of achievements that seems to destine him to be an AI expert. An alumni of Thammasat Univeristy, he got his Bachelor of Science in IT then went on to study Cognitive Science and Natural Technology at the University of Edinburgh. He returned to Thailand after the 2006 coup and was one of the people who lent his voice to help protest the Computer-Related Crime Act of 2007. He also got a Masters degree for Anthropology from his alma mater. Now, he is the AI Research Engineering Manager at Wisesight and is one of the people that helped develop a new social media analytic tool called "Social Seeing". With his degree and vast experience in IT, as well as being well-versed in all things AI, we didn't just talk to him about the new software he helped develop. We also talked about privacy in the social media stage and if it's at all possible that we'll be slaves to our AI overlords in the next few years or so.

  • THAILAND

    New US ambassador approved by senate

    Published on 06/08/2015

    » The US Senate has voted to approve the appointment of Glyn Davies, a former US envoy for North Korean policy, as the new ambassador to Thailand to fill a position vacant for 10 months.

  • OPINION

    Fostering norms to sustain Thailand's democracy

    News, Published on 06/06/2018

    » With the next election tentatively scheduled for February 2019, it is not long before Thailand returns to democracy. And while many in the country are excited about the prospect of an election, others are weary of reverting to politics as usual.

  • OPINION

    Move quickly, PM

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/09/2020

    » Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has a valid point: Covid-19 could easily spread at the mass protest planned for tomorrow, especially as the protesters may stay overnight.

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