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A special Mother’s Day
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 09/08/2014
» Thais from all walks of life consider Mother’s Day as an important one in their general celebrations. So do inmates. They will celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s birthday in the next few days and hope royal pardons will be granted for the occasion.
Prison cell blues put to paper
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 31/05/2014
» Writing can tell a lot about a person’s life, especially those who are living on borrowed time. It can unshackle their despair and hopelessness as they sit without a future in maximum security in Bangkwang penitentiary.
Protests turn a page for editor
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 28/03/2014
» The anti-government protests have lit the fire of political activism for one magazine editor who finds that everything he touches turns to gold for the fund-raising activities that are helping to finance the mass movement.
Kwanchai attack puzzles
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 24/01/2014
» Speculation is rife as to the motive for the gun attack on Kwanchai Praipana, a leader of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), in the northeastern province of Udon Thani.
The villagers who could
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 07/12/2013
» In the space of just a couple of years, the villagers of Ban Sap Phut in Phetchabun have shown others how to turn their lives around by employing a sustainability lifestyle encouraged by academics, private companies and their own desire to break out of a lifestyle of abject poverty.
One day, three countries
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 14/09/2013
» Years ago, the only thing missing that would have made road travel possible from Thailand to Vietnam through Laos in one day was a bridge. Now, the third Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge is an established reality and so is the trip across the three countries that can be covered from dawn to dusk.
Hope grows deep in the forest
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 06/04/2013
» PPoverty-stricken and locked in conflicts with the state, Karang ethnic villagers in the deep-forest fringes of Phetchaburi province had endured years of misery. Until a royally-sponsored development project was introduced to their remote village in Kang Krachan district, their future seemed bleak.
Dem lawyer vows to battle on after assault
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 31/12/2012
» A Democrat Party lawyer vows to fight for justice after being brutally assaulted on the night of Dec 17.
Fugitive fears for future
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 26/07/2012
» After three years in exile, Vatana Asavahame believes national reconciliation will be tough to achieve and peace will not be restored if politicians still play politics in a way that they must win at all costs.
Fugitive Vatana appears at Chinese temple
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 23/07/2012
» LUOYANG, CHINA: Vatana Assavahame made his first public appearance at a Buddhist temple he commissioned in China on Friday after fleeing a jail term for bribery four years ago.