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Govt must focus on virus, not information
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 26/03/2020
» It was supposed to be a strong pill prescribed to contain the spread of Covid-19. But the chilling reality is the invocation of the Emergency Decree, which goes into effect from Thursday and will run until the end of April, is regularly misused by the authorities to curb freedom of speech and free flow of information.
Political cases may bode ill for democracy
Oped, Surasak Glahan, Published on 28/02/2019
» The uniquely Thai way of sabotaging popular political parties and their leaders with surprising ease yielded further progress yesterday, as the fate of the executives at the helm of the Future Forward Party (FFP) and Thai Raksa Chart Party (TRC) were left hanging in the balance.
Regime's extreme laws won't cure problems
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 03/08/2017
» Living in Thailand nowadays requires that we keep ourselves updated on new laws and new (and double?) standards of law enforcement, otherwise we may find ourselves in trouble.
The reason the govt wants media control
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 01/02/2017
» The relationship between the military and most media outlets is not bad, even though it is not completely friendly either. So why is the regime's reform body proposing a bill to control the media?
Govt cracks down on social networking forums
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 03/07/2010
» A member of the social networking website Facebook has spent the past two months in jail, accused of breaking lese majeste law in messages posted at his Facebook page.