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Stakeholders chip Computer Crime Act
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/11/2016
» The new Computer Crime Act (CCA) draft drew flak from stakeholders, including prominent law enforcers, at a parliamentary public hearing yesterday.
The mother of change
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 27/01/2016
» Her profile is not a fascinating story of a revolutionary mother. She's just a striving housewife juggling her many odds job as a housemaid, a fortune teller and a mother of four children. The eldest one of which happens to be a big pebble that is clanking in the powerful military's boots.
Tourism a security nightmare
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 17/01/2016
» The ease with which tourists can enter Thailand and move about the country is a weak point that terrorists could exploit to launch attacks here, security experts have warned.
The problem that refuses to stay silent
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/07/2015
» It was a case of deja vu. The military court’s swift proceedings against 14 students at midnight on June 26 evoked parliament’s rushed passage of the Pheu Thai-sponsored amnesty bill in the early hours of Nov 1, 2013. Regardless of political leaning, whichever side is in power always mobilises all available resources for its own benefit.
Banpodj insists he is a lone voice
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/04/2015
» At the age of 66 and facing a long prison term, Husdin Ouiraiprayvan maintains there was never any malice in the hundreds of anonymous voice clips he produced which led to his arrest.
Smiling in plain view
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/10/2014
» It's very rare for him not to smile. He smiles when he speaks. In fact, he even smiled when he was hauled into a police truck on the night the military announced Thailand's 19th coup. He also smiled — as some photographs showed — when he was subsequently brought back twice to a military camp.
New crackdown on criticism has ominous overtones
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 09/09/2014
» Ton Kla (not his real name) shed tears when he saw his drama mentor and older friend, Golf, behind bars at the Central Women's Correctional Institution three weeks ago.
Detainees’ fate ‘uncertain’
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/07/2014
» The fate of two lese majeste detainees under the military regime is still uncertain after being repeatedly refused bail.
Losing our sanity in the political abyss
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 13/05/2014
» The political chaos made me rush to check my Oxford Learners’ Dictionary for the meaning of "sanity" (the state of having a normal healthy mind; and the state of being sensible and reasonable). It is something that is currently hard to find in our society as warring parties try to justify their own unbending aims. Those holding the middle ground will be automatically dubbed “un-Thai”, disloyal, or hired/paid by the other side.
US, watchdog voice concerns over poll block
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 28/01/2014
» The United States and the regional poll watchdog have expressed grave concerns over anti-government protesters' blockade of polling units and violence during advance voting for the election on Sunday.