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Zero burning, maximum harm
Editorial, Published on 13/04/2025
» The toxic PM2.5 haze is back -- and so is the government's misguided response. As haze blankets the country once again, the government is using the same old solution.
Weed policy is still hazy
News, Editorial, Published on 22/03/2021
» After parts of the cannabis plant were taken off the country's narcotics list, the commercial prospects of cannabis-related products have become promising. Many business operators, including those listed on the stock market, have launched business plans to cash in on the government's move to partially legalise the once-taboo and criminalised plant.
PM must embrace youthful ingenuity
News, Editorial, Published on 25/10/2020
» Although the October 6, 1976 massacre marked a bloody end to the hope of student activists in the aftermath of the popular uprising three years earlier, the spark ignited by the 1973 generation has flickered back to life this year as protests led by a new student movement have flared up across the nation.
PM must heed warning
News, Editorial, Published on 21/09/2020
» The mass demonstration of students and pro-democracy groups over the weekend should send a strong message to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha that he must show more sincerity over constitutional amendment.
Speech curbs hold back nation
News, Editorial, Published on 05/07/2020
» Last week's final acquittal of rights activist Andy Hall by the Supreme Court, whilst certainly welcome and the correct verdict, was also a stark reminder of just how damaging to free speech Thailand's laws are.
End brutality in our homes
News, Editorial, Published on 26/04/2018
» If a man's brutal attack on his girlfriend had not been broadcast live on Facebook on Sunday, the whole story would probably have ended quite differently. There might have been no intervention either by observers or the police. And the 21-year-old victim, Kuldara Yeesaman, may have ended up being forced to suffer longer while being forced to stay silent, just as many other Thai women do.