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Air quality vs tradition
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/02/2024
» Over the past few years, government agencies have tried, with limited success, to convince worshippers to stop burning incense during Chinese New Year in Thailand.
Reconciliation path unclear
Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/11/2020
» With the country currently so polarised, the expectation that the reconciliation panel set up by parliament will be able to find a way out of this political conflict is low. Parliament president Chuan Leekpai revealed on Monday that he had approached three former prime ministers to join the reconciliation committee.
Dialogue vital to find peace
Oped, Editorial, Published on 16/10/2020
» With the declaration of the state of emergency, the confrontation between Prayut Chan-o-cha and the anti-dictatorship activists has overwhelmingly intensified, and once again the country has plunged into division.
No 'peace and order' at all
Oped, Editorial, Published on 14/10/2020
» With the decision to round up the leaders of anti-dictatorship activists who occupied areas surrounding the Democracy Monument ahead of today's planned rally, the police may have hoped to prevent a face-off between the protesters and right-wing extremists.
Collar bombers not scapegoats
News, Editorial, Published on 04/08/2019
» The series of bombings in Bangkok and Nonthaburi, which injured four people last week, is a challenge to the new Prayut Chan-o-cha administration and those in charge of security affairs.
An activist punchbag
News, Editorial, Published on 04/04/2019
» Prominent anti-coup activist Ekachai Hongkangwan has again become a victim of violence. This time his car, which was parked in the compound of his residence in the Lat Phrao area, was burnt beyond repair by a group of unidentified arsonists.
Prayut faces exam fiasco
News, Editorial, Published on 08/01/2019
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha rather curtly ordered tens of thousands of students to continue waiting but the young people have a point about their examination dates. When he suggested Feb 24 for an election date, Gen Prayut "forgot" that university entrance exams already had been scheduled for Feb 18-23.
Eyewitness to injustice
News, Editorial, Published on 21/07/2018
» As a key witness in the deaths of six people killed during the military's dispersal of red-shirt protests in 2010, former paramedic Nathathida Meewangpla, who is now 40, has found herself at the other end of the justice process -- as a defendant in two criminal lawsuits that have seen her taken into custody without bail for more than three years pending court hearings.