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Return nameless victims to heal tsunami wounds
Oped, Published on 26/12/2024
» A leader of the team that identified thousands of victims of the 2004 tsunami now believes that Interpol's 99.9% certainty rule should be adapted out of compassion to try to reunite the remaining 380 nameless victims with their families. Twenty years on, the full story behind the huge detective saga in Thailand that gave names back to thousands of victims of the 2004 tsunami is being told for the first time.
Thai defamation law fails good people
Oped, Published on 07/12/2024
» Pressure is likely to intensify in the new year for Thailand to repeal its abusive criminal defamation laws as flaws in the multiple cases against advocate-journalist Chutima Sidasathian. Many others have exposed the laws' deficiencies.
You had one job
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 09/07/2017
» Today's media control tip is when the Royal Thai Navy can't get the job done, send in the army and the Ministry of Interior. (More on the navy in a moment.)
'Death island' defamation lawsuit is a farce
Jon Fernquest, Published on 06/07/2017
» Seven dead tourists under dubious circumstances & police handling led to international notoriety to which defamation suit only adds.
'Death island' lawsuit a farce
News, Editorial, Published on 06/07/2017
» Instead of encouraging concerted efforts from all sides to dig deeper for the truth surrounding the death of 30-year-old Belgian tourist Elise Dallemagne on Koh Tao, authorities in Surat Thani choose to proceed with a disgraceful act -- a lawsuit against a local English-language news website which broke the story.
The big issue: Using process as punishment
Alan Dawson, Published on 31/07/2016
» Three years ago last month, a two-person website published an article in the pair’s continuing coverage of human trafficking, and the roles of Thai agencies and phuyai in the sordid business. The fallout from that article spread ripples, now waves across the most basic civil rights and freedoms - press, speech, recourse.
Phuket journalists' ordeal over
Published on 16/01/2016
» The long legal ordeal of two Phuket journalists facing a defamation suit by the Royal Thai Navy appears to have ended with the expiry on Friday night of the deadline for prosecutors to file an appeal against their acquittal.
Phuketwan news website to close despite court win
News, Achadtaya Chuenniran, Published on 12/12/2015
» The Phuket-based news website Phuketwan will close at the end of this year as curbs on freedom of reporting are becoming stricter, one of the website editors Chutima Sidasathian says.
Journos acquitted of defaming navy
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/09/2015
» Phuket: The Phuket Provincial Court has dismissed the Royal Thai Navy's (RTN) criminal defamation and computer crime suits against the news website Phuketwan and two if its journalists over a report implicating navy personnel in Rohingya trafficking.
Phuketwan journalists acquitted in navy defamation trial
AFP, Published on 01/09/2015
» Two journalists, including an Australian editor, were found not guilty of criminal defamation by Phuket Provincial Court on Tuesday, their lawyer said, over a report implicating the Thai navy in human trafficking.