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Absorbing Rohingya becomes a regional challenge
Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/12/2016
» The Myanmar army crackdown in Rakhine state has overwhelmed the border area of Bangladesh and also eliminated the possibility of sending Rohingya migrants in Thailand back to Myanmar. As a result, Thailand must consider other solutions such as new shelter arrangements or reuniting families in Muslim-majority Malaysia, suggests the Migrant Working Group (MWG).
South Korea's big transition
Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/11/2016
» Koreans might see a change of the guard at the Blue House before the presidential election scheduled for late next year. But the current outrage directed at President Park Geun-hye is more of a sideshow taking place against the backdrop of more profound changes.
Joshua Wong due to mark Oct 6 events
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 19/09/2016
» Lessons learned from the youth-led Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong will be conveyed by Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong for the 40th commemorations of Thailand's Oct 6, 1976, massacre.
Draft 'no answer to conflict'
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/08/2016
» The constitution alone cannot heal political divisions, according to constitutional experts.
Higher tax, welfare urged
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 01/08/2016
» The military government has fallen into the same populist trap as its predecessors over economic policy and lacks the necessary fortitude to raise taxes and increase investment in the welfare system amid a rapidly ageing population, says an academic.
Anfrel pulls out of poll monitoring role
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/07/2016
» An Asia-wide election monitoring group, Anfrel, will refrain from observing the Aug 7 charter referendum because the Election Commission took so long to respond to its request, its chief said Thursday.
Political prisoners to get more help
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 26/05/2016
» Activists have set up a group to provide financial support to "political" prisoners as signs of repression have yet to subside two years since the coup.
Isan offers no easy path for CDC draft
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/05/2016
» NORTHEAST: Two years after the coup, urban middle-class voters and rural residents in the country's Northeast, the biggest stronghold of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, remain split on whether the junta-commissioned draft charter should be passed at the August referendum.
Remembering a faded revolutionary
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/05/2016
» SAKHON NAKHON -- Thailand needs to use something other than idolisation and propaganda to attract the younger generation to the scholarly works and ideology of late leftist intellectual Jit Phumisak, said historians commemorating the 50th anniversary of his death
Three women take on the military regime
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/03/2016
» On International Women's Day today, I would like to highlight the lives and work of three women who have championed rights protection for people they believe have been unfairly treated by the state. Their work at times puts them in difficult situations, but they press on regardless.