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DSI clarifies
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 13/10/2010
» Enough people are sceptical about claims that redshirts received assassination training in Cambodia that the DSI had to make a clarification.
Blast update
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 07/10/2010
» We now have a lot more information on Tuesday evening's bomb incident, but police still have much work to do to find everyone involved.
Closer to the US
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 06/10/2010
» Yesterday's Criminal Court decision to dismiss charges against Viktor Bout was not a victory for the accused arms smuggler.
A danger to free speech
Database, Published on 06/10/2010
» He may not know it, but Sen Patrick Leahy either greatly admires the Ministry of Internet Censorship of Thailand (MICT) and has decided to ape it, lock, stock and barrel, or he has accidentally re-invented the MICT wheel of Internet blockage; he introduced and pushed a bill that would do to almost all the Internet what the MICT only does to Thailand - block all access to numerous websites because they are harmful to national security; Sen Leahy and his many backers and admirers aren't talking about evil Thaksin and making fun of Abhisit, of course, they are talking about the evil digital piracy that makes fun of Hollywood and Microsoft; just like the Thai law, the Leahy bill would force all Internet service providers up and down the food chain to block access for the whole world to any site that facilitates piracy - no trial, no formal charges, and in this bill, no definition so far of "facilitates piracy"; the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls the Leahy bill "a danger to freedom of speech," but everyone knows the wimpy EFF always politely understates the obvious.
Gen Prayuth takes command
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 01/10/2010
» Bangkok Post military affairs reporter Wassana Nanuam turns her attention from the outgoing to the incoming army chief.
General Anupong steps down
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 30/09/2010
» Wassana Nanuam, one the Bangkok Post's top reporters, takes a critical look at outgoing General Anupong Paojinda's time as army chief.
Kaspersky wants digital passports
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 29/09/2010
» In the '90s we had cyber hooligans and cyber vandals who wrote viruses just for the fun of it. In the first decade of the 21st century, cyber criminals aimed at enriching themselves. Today, with the discovery of the new Stuxnet worm, the world is facing the threat of cyber terrorism.
For or against
Database, Published on 29/09/2010
» Juti Krairiksh, the Minister of Internet Censorship in Thailand (MICT), came under nasty criticism from the employees of your ToT and your CAT Telecom because of his support for third-generation phone licences; the minister, according to the state-owned telecoms duopoly, is duty-bound to be against 3G; some 200 of the state employees showed up at censorship headquarters to give up their lunchtime to lambaste their minister; Mr Juti at one point had apologised to the public for not being able to control executives of CAT and ToT; he didn't give a reason, but it possibly was because he was busy adding URLs to the censored list.
Patronage politics in Thailand
Jon Fernquest, Published on 27/09/2010
» Bangkok Post columnist Suranand Vejjajiva describes how patronage works in Thai politics in his Friday column.