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Artist award saga leaves sour taste
Editorial, Published on 07/09/2025
» For the sake of its own honour and the prestige in safeguarding the National Artist Award, the Department of Cultural Promotion must break its silence. It needs to clarify whether veteran writer Sri Daoruang was pulled off the list of national artists at the last minute.
Probe maid abuse case
News, Editorial, Published on 25/08/2022
» Deputy police spokesman, Kissana Phathanacharoen, made a slip of the tongue when talking to the media about the case of Pol Cpl Kornsasi Buayaem, who is accused of abusing her maid, a former army soldier.
Rethink this London trip
News, Editorial, Published on 18/09/2018
» Just when it seemed the story had plumbed the depths, the unsavoury claim of a June 25 drugging and rape on already infamous Koh Tao has turned worse. Pol Maj Gen Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn has announced an imminent trip to London. There, he claimed late last week, he intends to interrogate the 19-year-old woman who claims to be the victim. Pol Maj Gen Surachate, the high-profile deputy chief of the Tourist Police Bureau, has quite loudly doubted the woman's claim she was a crime victim. He said his London visit could end up proving the rape claim was false.
Ban toxic farm chemicals
News, Editorial, Published on 18/05/2018
» It has now become clear that the Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives Ministry plans to ignore all the information and public alarm regarding the impact of extremely toxic farm chemicals, in particular paraquat and chlorpyrifos as well as glyphosate and renew the import licences for those chemicals instead of scrapping them when they expire next year.