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Thanks Chin, Taweesak for making history
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/10/2013
» In a world of instant video clips and on-demand visual recordings - just draw your smartphones and start shooting, like gun-slingers - it's hard to recall a time when documenting events in moving images was a feat.
Human rights defenders 'ignored'
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 27/09/2013
» Although more people are emerging to defend human rights in Thailand, they are still ignored or stigmatised for fighting against the culture of official impunity, say activists.
Snapper's saga: A life spent caught up in the frame game
B Magazine, Kritini Upayokin, Published on 14/07/2013
» 'My life is like The Adventures of Tintin," says photojournalist Vinai Dithajohn. "My own version has been quite a ride. If I passed away tomorrow, I'd know that I had lived."
Weep for the fallen, never stop caring
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/05/2013
» We weep for the South. We send prayers and we will remember, or try our best to remember, all the deaths and not consign them to the faceless realm of statistics. On Wednesday night, ruthless, lawless, godless insurgents killed six civilians, including two-year-old Jakarin Hiangma, in a sign of escalating violence that leaves Buddhists and Muslims alike in shame and shock.
Getting on the peace train a welcome move
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 04/04/2013
» The peace talks held last week in Malaysia between the government and key figures of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani (BRN) created a feeling of anxiety across the country.
Draconian laws still rankle as new ISA era beckons
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 04/03/2013
» Experts are warning the government against rushing to expand the scope of the Internal Security Act (ISA), saying hard lessons still need to be learned from the use of draconian special laws in the far South.
Study the past before using ISA, say experts
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/03/2013
» The government needs to study the hard lessons learned from the use of special laws in the southern border provinces before it considers expanding the use of the Internal Security Act (ISA), say experts.
Learn from cyclist deaths
News, Published on 20/02/2013
» A tragic road accident which killed a British couple on a world cycling tour echoes one undeniable fact: our roads are dangerous (''British cyclists die in pickup crash'', BP, Feb 17).
Insurgents have 'a deep pain' in their hearts
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/02/2013
» A two-minute video clip of the funeral of some of the 16 dead Islamist insurgents from the failed attack on a marine outpost in Narathiwat's Bacho district was posted on the YouTube social network last Friday _ just two days after the attack.
The good, the bad and the BBC's ugly Abhisit interview
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 14/12/2012
» A good interview raises more questions than it answers, while a bad one raises more questions about the interviewer than the interview. A mix of both was in play last week when former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was interviewed by BBC news presenter Mishal Husain about murder charges recently levelled against him.