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Avoiding the third rail
News, Published on 12/03/2023
» The Move Forward Party (MFP) has declared amending the ultra-sensitive lese majeste law will not take precedence in its election campaign, a "watered down" stand that could see the party easing into membership of the next government.
Dictating the internet
News, Published on 16/12/2019
» Disinformation or freedom of expression? Hate speech or free speech? Threat to national security or whistleblowing on corruption and tyranny?
Cambodia's opposition urges world to help
Reuters, Published on 04/09/2017
» PHNOM PENH - Foreign donors must open their eyes to Cambodia's "false democracy" and put more pressure on Prime Minister Hun Sen after the arrest for treason of his main rival, Kem Sokha, a top opposition figure said on Monday.
In Singapore, family feud deepens over Facebook posts
New York Times, Published on 05/08/2017
» BANGKOK - Singapore’s government has been trying for two weeks to get Harvard University economist Li Shengwu, a grandson of Singapore’s founder, Lee Kuan Yew, to apologise for comments he made in a private Facebook post that were seen as critical of the country’s leadership.
Revolution's legacy back from the brink
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 25/06/2017
» Meanings assigned to specific persons and objects change through time. Once they were defined as supreme, then redefined as degenerate and consigned to oblivion.
Failing the lecturers
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 20/11/2016
» At Thepsatri Rajabhat University, a lecturer was locked out of his office after exposing alleged corruption involving the budget allocated for a field trip. His three staff were moved to other roles, and this semester his classes were reduced until he had no students to teach. Nowadays he goes to the university in the morning and signs his name, fearful he will fail his performance assessment.
Philippines' Duterte endorses killing corrupt journalists, drug dealers
AFP, Published on 01/06/2016
» DAVAO - Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday that corrupt journalists were legitimate targets of assassination, as he amped up his controversial anti-crime crusade with offers of rewards for killing drug traffickers.
Dads' diary: The fight to keep a young family whole
Spectrum, Published on 03/04/2016
» It was supposed to be a three-week visit to witness the birth of their daughter. Instead, American Gordon Lake and his Spanish husband Manuel Valero have been trapped in Thailand for the past 14 months, locked in a desperate battle for custody of their child.
Waves of fear over phone tower claims
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 27/03/2016
» ‘Radio waves from cell phone towers are not as harmful as you think” has become the official government tagline. It’s heard on radio spots, published in leaflets and banners on song thaew vehicles, as well as printed on billboards in front of schools and government buildings.
Carving into the smelliest stories of the year
Spectrum, Published on 03/01/2016
» From the political arena of football administration to the floodplains of downtown Bangkok and the iron-clad corruption-free Hua Hin monument, controversy was out of the ballpark in 2015.