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Much hangs on Tak Bai
Oped, Editorial, Published on 03/05/2024
» Last week, the Muslim Attorney Centre Foundation representing relatives of the Tak Bai tragedy filed charges with Narathiwat provincial court against nine highly ranked security officials responsible for crowd control in Tak Bai on Oct 25, 2004.
Police explain inaction after Tak Bai massacre
Online Reporters, Published on 26/04/2024
» Police have cited force majeure as the reason they did not pursue legal action against an army officer and seven others involved in a crackdown on protesters that led to dozens of deaths in Tak Bai 20 years ago.
More voluntary conscripts this year: Army
Wassana Nanuam, Published on 14/04/2024
» More Thai males will join the army voluntarily during the conscription season this year compared to last year, an assistant army spokesperson announced on Sunday.
Two killed, 9 soldiers hurt in southern ambush
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 08/04/2024
» Two defence volunteers were killed and nine other soldiers wounded when their patrol was ambushed by gunmen in Narathiwat on Sunday night.
Conscription panic isn't the debate Europe needs
News, Published on 06/04/2024
» 'The French are all soldiers and must defend their homeland." So decreed the 18th-century law that made military service mandatory in France, until the end of the Cold War banished it to the history books and replaced it with a kind of glorified recruitment day -- which I dutifully attended as a teenager and promptly forgot about. Nobody under the age of 45 in France has forcibly worn army fatigues or picked up a weapon, including Emmanuel Macron.
Western armed forces facing a recruitment crisis
News, Peter Apps, Published on 01/04/2024
» Every morning on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower, an unsuspecting crew member is called to the bridge, presented with a cookie and asked to sit in the captain's chair.
Illegal job seekers caught near Myanmar border
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 13/03/2024
» KANCHANABURI: Twenty-two job seekers from Myanmar were arrested after illegally crossing the border into Thong Pha Phum district on Wednesday morning.
Ambush kills two defence volunteers
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 20/02/2024
» Narathiwat: Two defence volunteers providing security for teachers were killed by an unidentified armed group in Tak Bai district yesterday morning.
Indonesia says 71 election workers died from exhaustion
Published on 19/02/2024
» Seventy-one people have so far died from exhaustion following the world’s largest single-day election in Indonesia last week, according to the government.
Defence, a civilian affair
Wassana Nanuam, Published on 28/01/2024
» Defence Minister Sutin Klungsang shows he has what it takes to blend in and work with the military despite having no military background.