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US, Asean meet to discuss crisis
News, Post Reporters, Published on 22/04/2020
» Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai will attend a special videoconference meeting about Asean with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo tomorrow, according to a statement.
Expose rot in tree-felling
News, Editorial, Published on 21/11/2019
» The uprooting of 11 yang na trees along highway 402 in Phangnga's Takua Thung district may seem inconsequential, but the brazen and scandalous act demonstrates, at best, recklessness on the part of the Highways Department. At worst, it is intentional wrongdoing.
Change tack in far South
News, Editorial, Published on 09/11/2019
» The government and army's responses to this week's deadly attack at a civil defence volunteer checkpoint in Yala province in the deep South are deeply worrying, largely because of their insistence on sticking with numerous failed and questionable means of tackling violence in the restive region.
Baghdadi 'The Ghost': jihadist chief who oversaw IS rise and fall
AFP, Published on 27/10/2019
» BAGHDAD - Reclusive jihadist supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi oversaw the bloodstained rise and ultimate collapse of his Islamic State group's "caliphate" while keeping such a low profile that he was nicknamed "The Ghost".
Rohingya row stymies caucus
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 28/08/2019
» A regional political meeting has been unable to proceed for the third consecutive year after Indonesia and Myanmar rowed about the inclusion of the Rohingya crisis on the agenda on Tuesday, according to the secretary-general of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (Aipa).
Separatist militant camp seized in Narathiwat after clash
Waedao Harai, Published on 21/07/2019
» NARATHIWAT: A combined government force seized a camp of Muslim militants after an exchange of fire in Rangae district on Sunday morning, police reported.
15b fare planned for electric train
Gary Boyle, Published on 19/07/2019
» The government has affirmed its intention to charge electric train passengers a flat fare of 15 baht per ride.
Free MRT ride at 5 new stations for 2 months
Thodsapol Hongtong, Published on 18/07/2019
» Passengers will be allowed a free ride for two months on the MRT's new five-station stretch, starting July 29.
Another one bites the dust
News, Editorial, Published on 20/06/2019
» Another chief of a local administration agency has fallen victim to the regime's absolute and authoritarian power.
Photographic Storyteller
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 30/05/2019
» We first interviewed Peerapat "Add" Wimolrungkarat because of his unique job as personal photographer for Abhisit Vejjajiva while he was the 27th prime minister of Thailand many moons ago. Since then Add has gone on to become the photo editor of The Momentum and The Standard news websites and since 2017, has worked as the photographer for Isra Sunthornvut, secretary-general of Asean Inter-Parliamentary Assembly. Recently he was chosen as a finalist in StreetFoto San Francisco 2019 Contest and his works, along with four Bangkok-based photographers, will be exhibited from June 3-9. Also a Leica ambassador since 2016, he is holding the “Sense Of Place” exhibition, which runs until Jun 16 at Leica Gallery Bangkok.