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Briton's abuse claims based on 'false' info
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/05/2016
» British labour activist Andy Hall supplied false information about abuses at an export company to a Finnish civil rights group, Finnwatch, a prosecution witness in a defamation lawsuit claimed yesterday.
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.
Pridi panel slams draft charter, NCPO
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/05/2016
» The latest junta-backed draft charter carries fewer democratic values than charters written after the 1932 revolution, scholars said yesterday at a ceremony marking the 116th birthday of the late statesman and coup leader Pridi Banomyong.
Fate of Khon Kaen model defendants uncertain
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/05/2016
» Two years ago, a confused Virachai Chabunmee woke up to find himself banged up in prison with a bunch of inmates whom he was supposedly in cahoots with in an insurrection plot.
Jit remains little known in Thailand
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 06/05/2016
» Half a century after the passing of revolutionary Jit Bhumisak, the general public has yet to recognise this intellectual whose justice-for-all crusade made him join the communist insurgency and die at the age of only 36.
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
'Streisand effect' reaches out for NCPO chief
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 03/05/2016
» It's never easy for the media to work when the country is under a military regime. Poor ratings for press freedom given recently by two agencies, the US-based Freedom House and Reporters without Borders (RSF) have attested to this fact.
Somyot's lengthy detention takes a toll on his family
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 01/05/2016
» There is little Somyot Prueksakasemsuk's family can do except keep their wits about them and try to be optimistic as the former labour unionist-cum-red shirt activist notches up five years behind bars on a lese majeste conviction.
Military 'tried to dupe us'
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 01/05/2016
» Two netizens detained for mimicking the junta and attacking the draft constitution yesterday complained the military has tried to dupe them into framing other people abroad for lese majeste charges.
New peace talks yield no result
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/04/2016
» The latest informal peace talks on Wednesday between Thai military representatives and an alliance of insurgents made no progress as neither side could reach agreement, a separatist group representing insurgents said yesterday.