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A broken system
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 24/04/2023
» Last year, Mintra Chuawangkham, better known as Minton, a young female influencer with 3.5 million followers on TikTok and 1.92 million subscribers on YouTube, revealed in a video that she had been stalked and sexually harassed by a security guard for a year. The security guard also created a fake Facebook account pretending to be her. The fake account defamed the influencer by posting false information about their sexual relationship. He created a fake marriage licence and tried to deceive other people into believing that they were a couple. He also posted many creepy messages which expressed his sexual desire for her on social media.
Data theft soldier surrenders
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/04/2023
» An army sergeant major who claimed to have obtained the personal digitalised data of 55 million Thais surrendered to police on Wednesday and confessed he just wanted to be in the spotlight.
Boy's suicide leads to woman's arrest for swindling
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 11/01/2023
» A woman has been arrested for public swindle after a teenage student she is alleged to have cheated out of 14,000 baht he invested with her committed suicide.
Free vs hate speech as world changes
News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 28/12/2022
» While the Asia-Pacific region is home to a wealth of constructive traditions and practices, it is also confronted with the conundrum of how to protect freedom of expression at the same time as tackling hate speech which is rampant today. A morass of laws of a prohibitive and inhibitive kind are emerging, entrenching censorship and self-censorship, especially in the face of more authoritarian trends, rather than a broader range of actions to respect a diversity of opinions and to counter incitement to hatred.
Lecturer in hot water over 'ritual'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/12/2022
» A well-known former university lecturer has apologised for having solicited cash donations to finance a ritual that he claimed could cure Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendiradebyavati of her ailments, after he was charged by the police over his actions.
Senior cop's free food and drinks ran pub into the ground
Online Reporters, Published on 08/11/2022
» A police station chief with a 3% share in a pub, held by his wife, allegedly creamed off 100,000 baht a month in free food and drinks, eventually leading to it closing down.
Dating sites put love on the line
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 07/11/2022
» Women have been warned against so-called romance scams or online dating fraud which have cost victims millions of baht, a seminar was told.
Chuan charged with defamation
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 27/10/2022
» Parliament president Chuan Leekpai has been indicted for defamation in a suit filed by former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who claimed the House speaker defamed him in a speech back in 2012.
An 'inconvenient truth' about money laundering
Business, Published on 20/10/2022
» The cryptocurrency industry is far from perfect, but it has grown by leaps and bounds over the past three years. Crypto is a completely new innovation. And just like many regulators and policymakers, we in the industry are still working through what an appropriate regulatory framework should look like.
Let's talk about gun control in Thailand
Oped, Boonwara Sumano, Published on 12/10/2022
» Oct 6 marks one of the most tragic days in Thailand's history. Back in 1976, hundreds of students and protesters were attacked and killed at Thammasat University's Tha Prachan campus. Last week, 37 people, 24 of them preschool kids, lost their lives in a gun and knife attack at a childcare centre in Nong Bua Lam Phu province.