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Families decry 'harsh' detentions of 'Facebook 8'
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/04/2016
» The families of those arrested for allegedly violating the Computer Crime Act have called for their release and decried their harsh and inhumane detentions.
French ambassador dodges lese majeste request
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/07/2015
» The French ambassador has told the justice minister that "France doesn't have a lese majeste law" after being asked this week about whether France would extradite three Thais wanted here for insulting the monarchy.
Stamping out criticism only foments gossip, mockery
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 10/03/2015
» On the surface, Thailand appears quiet on the political front, with relative peace and order as it enters another stage of the political roadmap.
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.
Military regime can't turn back the clock of progress
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/08/2014
» My memory of one of this country's democratic milestones — the student uprising of Oct 14, 1973 — was my grandmother sobbing while watching His Majesty the King's announcement on TV about a new government replacing the military dictatorship that students had tried to topple.
Peace advocate: Dear insurgents ...
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/09/2012
» A peace advocate has sent a strong message to southern insurgents to renounce violence as it is not conducive to the aims they are pursuing.