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Let the punishment fit the crime
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 02/07/2017
» Just when people thought that capital punishment no longer exists in Thailand, a Thai criminal court recently ordered sending two repeat offenders to death row for fatally stabbing a young man during an iPhone robbery.
A long way from home
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 11/12/2016
» Mohammad, a teenage refugee, barely escaped becoming a child soldier in Somalia three years ago. "They [the militants] wanted to take me and use me as a child soldier but my grandmother refused to let me join them," the 16-year-old recalled of the incident in Mogadishu, the capital city where Mohammad, who uses an alias, was born and raised.
Reading from the same script
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 02/10/2016
» Rohkiyoh Abu recalls the bad experiences in primary school which she hopes her children will never have to face. Referring to her first months in school, the 28-year-old Muslim mother of two from the southern province of Pattani explained, "I could not communicate with the teacher who spoke Thai in the classroom."
Songs of the jailbirds
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 18/09/2016
» Thanadda Swangduen's latest book Khang Ying reveals the astonishing life behind bars of women inmates.
It's risky, but elephants are feeling frisky
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 17/07/2016
» Despite concerns over their possible extinction, wild elephants in Thailand are enjoying boom years.
Fear of a banana republic
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 05/06/2016
» Sam-Ang Butprom describes the green bananas from his farm as a miracle. "This is the best banana in the world -- the miracle fruit," he said.
Found in translation
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 24/04/2016
» During prime-time weekend slots, thousands of Myanmar TV viewers are glued to the box to catch up with the latest instalment of Karma, a drama so popular that it's currently being rerun for the third time.
Cracking under the force
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 21/02/2016
» Pol Lt Col Jan Chaisawasdi did not seem like a man who was about to kill himself.
Out of a war zone, into a Thai prison
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 07/02/2016
» Mustafa*, a Palestinian from Syria, was finally freed to leave Thailand last month. After serving almost two years in a Thai jail and one month in an immigration detention facility on charges of illegally entering the country, the 38-year-old was released to be reunited with his young daughter and wife.
Saving the scapegoats
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 20/12/2015
» On Dec 11, Songkod Supmee walked out of Bang Khwang Central Prison after serving 13 months for a crime he says he did not commit. The 30-year-old was trembling with emotion when he embraced his mother who was waiting for him with his wife.