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Firm denies ties to temple graffiti mess
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 15/02/2024
» The employer of a photographer, arrested and charged for allegedly supporting a political activist responsible for spraying a protest message on the wall of Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram on March 28 last year, emphasised on Wednesday that it had not asked him to cover the incident.
Warrant out for ex-Pheu Thai boss
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/02/2023
» The Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Political Office-Holders has ordered an arrest warrant to be issued for former Pheu Thai Party leader Charupong Ruangsuwan for failing to attend the first hearing in a case in which he is charged with accepting gifts of excessive value while he was interior minister between 2012-2013.
Warrant out for ex-Pheu Thai leader Charupong's arrest
Post Reporters, Published on 07/02/2023
» The Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions has issued a warrant for the arrest of fugitive Charupong Ruangsuwan, a former Pheu Thai Party leader, for allegedly demanding a water supply company pay for air tickets costing nearly 60,000 baht while he was interior minister in 2012.
All the world's a stage
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 30/12/2022
» Global issues such as the Russian-Ukraine war affected countries around the world, and Thailand, as the host of the Apec summit, was no exception.
In good faith
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/09/2022
» Re: "Support for nuns long overdue", (Editorial, Sept 18).
Thais can't breathe
Life, Punsita Ritthikarn, Published on 22/11/2021
» Last year, the Chulalongkorn student activist group Spring Movement arranged the exhibition "Separation/(Silence)" in memory of Thai pro-democracy activists and human rights advocates who have vanished since the 2014 military coup. To this day, the student-led organisation is searching for those missing persons.
LGBT community vows to push harder in 2021
News, Published on 15/02/2021
» As street protests came back last year pointing out pressing issues needing change in the country, the LGBT community joined the movement calling for more progress on gender equality too. And although 2021 is not a year to expect any leaps of progress, activism for the cause will continue.
Many gates, no bars
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/02/2018
» Let’s see now. First there was watchgate, then we had copgate and now we have poachgate. Will the gates ever stop? No. Because this is amazing Thailand and we all know the elites don’t do jail time.
Trapped in a gilded cage of complacency
News, Published on 08/02/2018
» Across the globe, democracy, freedoms and the rule of law are collapsing. Our planet is suffering from increasing uncontrolled migration due to resource extraction limits and global climate change which is compounding rising authoritarianism and xenophobia in countries like Myanmar. Thailand, a key middle power in Southeast Asia with great potential to lead, remains trapped in a golden cage of complacency.
Leave Yingluck be
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018
» Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.