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Detained poet blasts military regime
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/05/2016
» A poet is continuing to challenge the regime in a military court, almost two years after being arrested, calling the coup-makers possible traitors.
'Popcorn gunman' gets 37 years in prison
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 04/03/2016
» The Criminal Court yesterday sentenced the so-called "popcorn gunman", who opposed the aborted February 2014 general election, to 37 years and four months in jail.
Finding 'fatherhood' in unlikely places
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/12/2015
» Being a father transcends bloodlines, biological ties and even the health conditions of the offspring, as renowned artist Sannarong Singhaseni has discovered. When Sannarong first dated his future wife at Silpakorn University in the 1970s, he often spent time with her younger sister, Samanjit Saengjak, a little girl with Down Syndrome.
Charged scenes as dramatist pair jailed for lese majeste
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/02/2015
» The Criminal Court has sentenced two dramatists from The Wolf's Bride political play to five years in jail for lese majeste but reduced the term by half after they confessed.
Public can afford to be less uncritical of the coup
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/07/2014
» Congratulations to the military for taking control of the nation and managing to win over the public in opinion polls, even if they are doing so with the connivance of a largely uncritical media.
Anti-corruption spirit needed
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/03/2013
» Independent organisations alone will never be able to eradicate corruption if Thai people themselves do not embrace the fight, say crusaders for good governance.
Soldiers 'did not see' who shot teenager
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/07/2012
» Military officers testifying to the Criminal Court yesterday at the inquest into the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old orphan during the red-shirt protests in 2010 said they did not see who opened fire.
DSI officers pin two 2010 unrest deaths on military
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 18/07/2012
» Soldiers probably killed a taxi driver and a 14-year-old boy during a crackdown on red-shirt protests on May 15, 2010, the Criminal Court was told yesterday.