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Come clean on drug past
News, Editorial, Published on 11/09/2019
» Yesterday, as he denied an Australian press report on his previous conviction for heroin trafficking in Sydney in the 1990s, Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Capt Thamanat Prompow, also urged Thais not to dwell on the past and put the matter of his record to rest.
Death penalty taints the record
News, Editorial, Published on 14/10/2018
» Thailand has missed a chance to be part of the world majority in marking the international day against the death penalty this week after it carried out the execution of a young convict in June amid high publicity.
Updating the war on drugs
News, Editorial, Published on 22/11/2016
» Governments and security agencies worldwide are always trying to catch up with society. Nothing illustrates this like the global rethink on the four-decade war on drugs. Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya continues to look for a policy that somehow acknowledges both a common disgust with the "war", and the fact that the public is becoming better educated and more tolerant of its actual dangers.