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Written in blood
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/07/2025
» In 2015, Joe Freeman and Aung Naing Soe noticed the prominent status of poetry in Myanmar politics. At the time, both journalists heard that Maung Saungkha, a 23-year-old poet, posted a poem about having a tattoo of an unnamed president on his penis on Facebook. Saungkha, however, was charged for defaming former president Thein Sein under telecommunication law, serving a six-month jail term.
Thai diplomacy is now in need of a reset
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 24/06/2025
» For the record, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has committed the most damaging diplomatic blunder in Thailand's modern history. The leaked 17.6-minute audio clip of a phone call between her and former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen was not just embarrassing -- it was devastating, not only for her but for the Thai people and the country.
How Thai political crisis may unfold as PM fights to keep job
Published on 20/06/2025
» Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is fighting to hold on to power less than a year since taking office, after leaked comments critical of the military triggered a political crisis.
Madana – 25 years on
Life, Published on 30/04/2025
» Twenty-five years ago, composer and novelist Somtow Sucharitkul, living in the United States and never imagining a career in Thailand, was invited to compose an opera to help raise funds for the reconstruction of King Rama VI's Phayathai Palace.
Myanmar quake struck mosques as minority Muslims gathered for Ramadan prayers
Reuters, Published on 29/03/2025
» NAY PYI TAW — When Friday's powerful earthquake struck central Myanmar, Htet Min Oo was performing ritual ablutions before Ramadan prayers at a mosque next to his house in Mandalay.
Inheritance tax collection rising sharply
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 27/02/2025
» The Revenue Department has collected revenue from inheritance tax worth more than 4 billion baht over the past 10 years, with more than 1.5 billion collected in the last fiscal year alone.
Time to deliver
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/02/2025
» Re: "High school students to receive free tablets, laptops", (BP, Jan 30).
MP alarmed by beggars with kids
News, Published on 18/01/2025
» People's Party MP for Bangkok, Bhuntin Noumjerm, is calling for the government to deal with foreign beggars in the Asok-Nana area after most were found to have brought children with them to make more money.
Macondo encountered
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 31/12/2024
» Ideally, good books should be left alone, even if they sit enshrined in a cobweb after a thousand years of solitude. In the reality of today's content industrial complex, that is unacceptable. Every good book can be and must be adapted. To watch is to live, to binge is to breathe. Literature is not a paradigm of text but fodder for algorithm. So here it is, with an air of inevitability, the much-touted, long-awaited, rigidly respectful and adequately decent Netflix series One Hundred Years Of Solitude -- the first eight parts, with the remaining eight coming next year.
Poor grades
Postbag, Published on 15/12/2024
» Re: "SET lacks catalysts until year-end", (Business, Dec 14).