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Activists suing govt over Pegasus spyware
Published on 14/02/2023
» Activists in Thailand are suing the government for using spyware technology to monitor dissidents, the first such case in the country that they hope will help raise awareness and better protect citizens who are subject to increasing surveillance.
Farmers brave bullets, prison for community land titles
Published on 06/10/2020
» SURAT THANI: Somruedee Bunthonglek has not repaired the bullet holes in the pickup truck her husband was driving when he survived an assassination attempt barely a year after her father was shot dead on the same communal farm in southern Thailand.
With social media and academia, villagers save ancestral forest
Published on 29/09/2020
» CHIANG RAI: The villagers of Ban Boon Rueang in Chiang Khong district of this northern province had long known that they benefited from the community wetland forest that supplied them with fish and firewood, but it wasn't until devastating floods in 2010 that they realised just how much.
Hill farmers swap opium for coffee
Business, Rina Chandran, Published on 22/11/2019
» DOI TUNG: Somchai Sophonsookpaiboon does not remember much about his younger years, except that they were spent in an opium haze.
As Bangkok cleans up, street vendors resist
Published on 06/08/2018
» BANGKOK: Vendors in one of Bangkok's biggest tourist hotspots have vowed to fight regulations preventing them from hawking their wares on the street, arguing that their livelihoods and the city's unique character are at stake.
Rights must be upheld when Thai firms go abroad
News, Rina Chandran, Published on 11/04/2018
» Thailand's businesses and its government must do more to protect the rights of vulnerable people abroad, analysts and activists said, after a landmark case filed by Cambodian farmers in a Bangkok court against a Thai sugar firm.
Slumdog entrepreneurs
Business, Published on 17/10/2016
» Malik Abdullah's plastic recycling business in Dharavi, the sprawling slum in Mumbai that is among the largest in Asia, has survived fire, building collapses, and the criminal underworld for decades. Now, it is threatened by development.