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Protect victims, end scam empires
Editorial, Published on 26/10/2025
» While China, the West, and South Korea are cracking down on cyber scam empires, the Thai government is still looking the other way.
Serious on cybercrime
Oped, Editorial, Published on 18/10/2025
» Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has made the correct, but long overdue, move in forming the National Committee for the Prevention and Suppression of Technology-Related Crimes.
Immigration Bureau faces new scrutiny
Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/09/2025
» The Police Immigration Bureau (IB) is fuming over a Reuters documentary-style interactive graphic report based on interviews with nine people who had allegedly been trafficked to scam centres in Myanmar between 2022 and 2025.
Safer tourism needed now
Oped, Editorial, Published on 11/07/2025
» The ongoing altercation between suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and her former interior minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, about the reduced volume of Chinese tourists recently is getting uglier -- with no foreseeable end in sight.
Anocha saga reopens
News, Editorial, Published on 02/12/2024
» Anocha Panjoy's disappearance 46 years ago remains a haunting chapter in Thailand's history.
Activists' fate awaits action
News, Editorial, Published on 02/09/2024
» Last Friday marked International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Unlike in the past, the return of a Shinawatra family member to Government House has rekindled hope the new prime minister will help locate political activists -- many of whom were affiliated with the red-shirt movement -- who disappeared in neighbouring countries like Cambodia and Laos.
Victim, not villain
Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/03/2023
» The story of Tor, a toddler in Nakhon Pathom who was initially believed to have been kidnapped before it was determined that he was dumped into the Tha Chin River by his own mother, is more than just a simple homicide. The case reflects a deep-rooted social problem in our society, which requires a concerted and systematic effort to eradicate.
Govt must act to shield protesters
News, Editorial, Published on 30/08/2020
» After a week in which the wife of missing Karen activist Porlajee "Billy" Rakchongcharoen urged public prosecutors to reverse their decision not to bring murder charges against four park officials over her husband's death and student activists ramped up their protests against the government which include demands for the protection of those who dare to publicly voice their opposition to the powers that be, today, somewhat appropriately, marks the United Nations' International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.
Cool heads must prevail
News, Editorial, Published on 21/07/2020
» The government should tread extreme carefully in its handling of Saturday's political protests by young students at Democracy Monument in Phra Nakhon district and in the provinces. In a challenge to the emergency decree, these were the first major gatherings since the coronavirus hit the country in March.
Rail link a worthy effort
News, Editorial, Published on 09/07/2019
» The new train service between Bangkok and Ban Klong Luk border station in Sa Kaeo province that was launched on July 1 is a major step for Thailand to boost people-to-people ties with its immediate neighbour to the east.