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New rule allows citizenship for many stateless people in Thailand
Post Reporters, Published on 30/06/2025
» A new regulation that will facilitate the granting of Thai citizenship to children of stateless people residing in Thailand and also to members of ethnic minority groups living in Thailand has come into effect, being announced in the Royal Gazette on Monday.
'Delighted' PM hands out national ID cards to minority ethnic groups
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/06/2025
» CHIANG RAI: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has granted Thai national ID cards to 21 representatives of minority ethnic groups in the northern province as part of the government's policy to resolve issues of statelessness and ensure access to government welfare.
Voices for change
Life, Published on 20/05/2025
» When Kemjira Jehba was diagnosed with depression at age 12, her world became quiet. The kind of quiet where pain goes unnoticed and stigma speaks louder than understanding. It took years of therapy, self-reflection and courage for her to find her voice again. Now aged 20, she's using it to help build a world where mental health is not feared but understood.
End citizenship delay now
Editorial, Published on 11/05/2025
» They were granted Thai nationality decades ago. Yet for nearly 40 years, they have lived as second-class citizens -- invisible, powerless, and stripped of basic rights -- all because of government red tape.
Gold card healthcare rights for new Thais
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/01/2025
» The National Health Security Office (NHSO) will offer universal healthcare benefits, or the gold card scheme, to at least 480,000 ethnic people to whom the government will grant Thai citizenship.
Myanmar man busted for juvenile porn
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/01/2025
» A Myanmar worker has been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing two boys and distributing obscene video clips of the abuse in an online chat group.
Prejudice fuels border birth row
Editorial, Published on 05/01/2025
» A public uproar erupted before the year-end over claims on social media that public hospitals along the Thai-Myanmar border are being overwhelmed by pregnant women from Myanmar seeking to give birth in Thailand.
Citizenship restored to former Greek royals
Published on 24/12/2024
» ATHENS - The former royal family of Greece has been granted citizenship and has pledged loyalty to the republic in a landmark move 50 years after the country abolished the monarchy.
Foreign patients along Thai border saga 'overblown'
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 23/12/2024
» Reports of an unusual spike in the number of patients from neighbouring countries seeking treatment at hospitals along the border have raised concerns about the ability of the nation's public healthcare system to handle the increased burden.
UNHCR supports Thailand in making statelessness history
Published on 02/12/2024
» Building on the recent resolution by the Thai Cabinet to accelerate a pathway to nationality for nearly half a million stateless people, the Royal Thai Government (RTG) today reaffirmed its commitment to make statelessness in Thailand a thing of the past. At an event in Bangkok coordinated between the Royal Thai Government and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, senior Thai officials shared Thailand’s bold vision on how to empower close to half a million people who are currently stateless to become productive Thai nationals.