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Reshuffle a bad sign
Oped, Editorial, Published on 17/10/2025
» The mass reshuffle involving 45 senior officials under the Interior Ministry, including provincial governors and department heads, is causing a stir.
Long road ahead for hill tribe justice
Editorial, Published on 28/04/2024
» In November 2016, a forest ranger shot dead Chalee Laijo, 36, a Karen forest dweller, while he was collecting wild mushrooms for food in the Huay Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, the ancestral home of the Karen hill tribes.
Politics, sports don't mix
Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/07/2023
» The Football Association of Thailand (FAT), which oversees football, futsal and beach football, has made national headlines over the past few days, but not in a good way.
Summit snub a good move
News, Editorial, Published on 19/10/2021
» The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has finally given the cold shoulder to Myanmar's junta leader Min Aung Hlaing by excluding him from a forthcoming summit later this month, much to the latter's chagrin.
A failure to communicate
Oped, Editorial, Published on 17/07/2021
» In a time when society needs unity to overcome the pandemic, it's dispiriting to see the Governmental Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) filing a libel lawsuit against Thonburi Healthcare Group (THG) chairman Boon Vanasin, who recently voiced his frustration about the slow pace of vaccine imports, a reaction related to his group's vaccine procurement having to go through state agencies.
'Boss' outrage fires up again
Oped, Editorial, Published on 11/12/2020
» The "pass the buck" attitude of the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) in handling the hit-and-run case involving Red Bull scion Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya comes as no surprise at all to anyone.
A verdict of controversy
Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/12/2020
» With Wednesday's ruling by the Constitutional Court, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is not only innocent of occupying an army welfare house inside the 1st Infantry Regiment, King's Guard, but he can also lawfully stay on where he and his family have lived since he served as army chief until he retired in 2014.
Thai critics need state protection
News, Editorial, Published on 29/11/2020
» Sitanan Satsaksit, the sister of pro-democracy activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit, who was abducted in Phnom Penh, arrived in the Cambodian capital earlier this month, together with legal aides, to seek answers about her brother's disappearance.
Hope at last in 'Boss' case?
Oped, Editorial, Published on 28/08/2020
» Progress in the probe by a committee under former graftbuster Vicha Mahakun, tasked with reviewing the aborted hit-and-run case of the Red Bull scion Vorayuth Yoovidhya, point toward light at the end of a long dark tunnel.
One belt, but many burdens
News, Editorial, Published on 05/09/2018
» China has suddenly encountered a number of problems with its grandiose scheme to revive, modernise and then massively expand the Silk Road of old. Not only have several countries questioned and even pulled out of vital parts of the project. Some have rudely questioned the motives of Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), often and even better known as the One Belt, One Road programme.