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Learning to get along
News, Editorial, Published on 01/11/2025
» After three months of extreme hostility, with border clashes resulting in a few dozen deaths, Thailand and Cambodia finally agreed to a peace deal brokered by US President Donald Trump.
TV plays shameful jingoism card
Oped, Editorial, Published on 19/10/2025
» A television programme which allowed critics to castigate human rights advocates including Senator Angkhana Neelapaichit for their views on the Thai-Cambodian conflict has shed new light on the dire need to regulate some unprofessional media.
Border tactics need review
News, Editorial, Published on 14/10/2025
» The war of words between controversial activist Guntouch "Gun Jompalang" Pongpaiboonwet and Senator Angkhana Neelapaijit reflects the flaws in the army's handling of the simmering border conflict with Cambodia.
Scott saga shows system's flaws
Editorial, Published on 27/04/2025
» A celebrity marine park adviser has been dismissed -- but the real issue isn't him. It's the corruption, secrecy, and autocratic control his departure exposes.
Refugee policy needs rethink
News, Editorial, Published on 09/01/2022
» The influx of ethnic Karen refugees fleeing war in Myanmar across the Thai border has raised questions yet again over Thailand's policies on refugees and its cosy ties with the Myanmar military.
Bring peace to Rakhine
News, Editorial, Published on 20/08/2019
» This week in 2017, a horrified world witnessed the beginning of brutal raids on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state by Myanmar military and security personnel, which prompted members of the minority group to flee their villages en masse. They crossed the border into Bangladesh before ending up at refugee camps in the southeastern border district of Cox's Bazar.
Today is no day for guns
News, Editorial, Published on 12/01/2019
» While pictures of five-year-old Prince George, the son of Prince William and Kate Middleton, playing with a pretend gun stirred public debate in Britain last June about whether a fascination with military hardware is damaging to little children, the majority of the Thai public has been at ease with something far more worrying for years.
Welcome the army pullout
News, Editorial, Published on 11/09/2018
» The army has revealed plans for its greatest change of strategy in public memory. Beginning in a year, it will close the bases and shift most Bangkok-based combat units to outlying provinces. The planned move includes most major units of infantry, cavalry and artillery -- troops, tanks and big guns -- as well as headquarters and support units needed to support them. Two well-known regiments are to be completely decommissioned and all their soldiers reassigned.