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When students rise
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 28/10/2025
» Back in the mid-19th century, female education increased literacy and access to jobs and they began to fight for participation in public life. The public sphere promised them a new horizon. From the 1890s onwards, print media began to allow women to express their voice and authors vaunted personal talent and equality, including gender relations. Following the Siamese Revolution in 1932, women were enfranchised for the first time.
Written in blood
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/07/2025
» In 2015, Joe Freeman and Aung Naing Soe noticed the prominent status of poetry in Myanmar politics. At the time, both journalists heard that Maung Saungkha, a 23-year-old poet, posted a poem about having a tattoo of an unnamed president on his penis on Facebook. Saungkha, however, was charged for defaming former president Thein Sein under telecommunication law, serving a six-month jail term.
Dough therapy
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/04/2025
» Oranong Chanasit, an activist, took a bakery course to learn how to knead dough in the hope of teaching hilltribe children, but encountered a life-changing experience.
Giving evidence
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 20/03/2023
» Under authoritarian rule, truths are silenced, censored and mutilated. Yet, many people find ways to tell their stories. It is an irony, though, that a repressive regime is a precondition of creative resistance.
Panel chases aid for duped berry pickers
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 13/10/2022
» The chairman of the House committee on Labour is speeding up coordination efforts with the Labour Ministry to provide financial aid of 30,000 baht for Thai berry pickers duped into working for a company in Finland in 2013.
Gaysorn bookstore moves stock to Chiang Mai
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 17/06/2022
» After six years, The Papersmith, an independent magazine shop in Bangkok's Gaysorn Village, will close its doors by the end of this month due to a lease expiry.
The healing power of art
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 05/04/2022
» Seated at an easel, a boy put his heart and soul onto blank paper. With bold brush strokes, he painted a red house with six yellow fish. As Tommy put it in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, art says what is inside of you. Little does anybody know this is part of art therapy for patients with rare diseases.
US pitches in with B1bn aid
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 25/04/2020
» The United States has provided public health emergency assistance worth US$35.3 million (1.1 billion baht) to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
Yuam River dam diverts more than just flow
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 07/04/2020
» Flowing freely along the Salween Basin, the Yuam River has been home to Karen villagers for many generations. From cradle to grave, they live off the land and the river, and for years they have been passing down the wisdom of their traditional ways to their descendants.
Seoul can help to regulate Mekong's flow
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 29/10/2019
» In 2017, South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced the "New Southern Policy", which is aimed at deepening relations with Southeast Asia to the extent that four other major powers -- the United States, China, Japan and Russia -- have done.