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Cute posts, cruel trade
Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/11/2025
» For years, CITES -- the United Nations' multilateral treaty aimed at protecting endangered plants and animals from threats posed by international trade -- has focused on combating wildlife trafficking networks that smuggle exotic animals from forests and breeding centres to meet demand from private zoos and the traditional medicine trade.
Dystopia of slavery
Oped, Editorial, Published on 12/02/2025
» The government is moving in the right direction in terms of tackling online scam gangs that operate near the country's borders.
Spring clean for scammers
News, Editorial, Published on 07/02/2025
» After months of kicking the can down the road, the Thai government finally cut off electricity, internet signal and oil supplies to five border towns in Myanmar where scam gangs are based.
Illegal pork saga must end
Oped, Editorial, Published on 25/11/2023
» The smuggled pork saga is getting more rotten and its foul smell seems to be travelling afar as the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has unveiled more details about its ongoing probe.
Pheu Thai, prove yourself
Oped, Editorial, Published on 27/01/2021
» As the drum roll begins for the no-confidence debate, ironically it is not the government but the opposition Pheu Thai Party that has come under pressure.
Time for drug policy rethink
News, Editorial, Published on 17/01/2021
» The deaths of nine people last week from the overdose of a deadly "new" drug -- a combination of heroin, ketamine, methamphetamine and sleep medication -- is a shock.
Death penalty ineffective
News, Editorial, Published on 21/03/2018
» US President Donald Trump is exploring options including the use of capital punishment to battle a new and deadly epidemic of drug abuse. So many Americans have died while abusing the world's most powerful opioids that the outbreak has reduced average US life expectancy by two years. The trafficking of drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, fentanyl and the like has resisted standard "war on drugs" enforcement, and the US government is floundering and grasping at promised solutions.