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Stop press intimidation
News, Editorial, Published on 02/01/2018
» The Thai Journalists Association wound up the year by issuing a depressing statement. It rated 2017 as yet another year where the free press was regulated and intimidated by the military government. The TJA said the regime hinders the media by restricting freedom of expression. And it says this causes public harm by not allowing examination and by barring criticism of the junta, collectively and individually.
Sek 'must face the music', Namwan's web stalker, Wut's 'short worms'
News, Mae Moo, Published on 14/01/2018
» Ex-wife turns on rocker
Hundreds of police block civil groups' march
Reuters and Online Reporters, Published on 20/01/2018
» Hundreds of police on Saturday blocked protesters planning to march from Bangkok to Khon Kaen in the northeast of the country in a rare display of public discontent.
Indonesia investigates online insults of Brunei's sultan
Associated Press, Published on 22/01/2018
» JAKARTA: The Sultan of Brunei has made a complaint of defamation to the Indonesian police about an Instagram account that criticised the wealthy autocratic leader of Southeast Asia's smallest nation.
Breaking through the glass ceiling
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 24/01/2018
» Earlier this month, the lush oasis of the Canadian ambassador's official residence was buzzing with a rare kind of energy. Sitting down were 25 young, strong and talented female leaders from 14 countries across South and Southeast Asia -- from Afghanistan to Nepal, from Maldives to Laos, in addition to Thailand.
Prawit's time bomb
News, Postbag, Published on 26/01/2018
» Re: Prawit's case 'a personal matter' (BP, Jan 24).
Myanmar students expelled after rally for funds
AFP, Published on 27/01/2018
» YANGON: Fourteen students have been expelled from a Myanmar university after staging a campus protest calling for more education funding, an activist said, sparking concern about eroding freedoms in the fledgling democracy.
Another pupil, 13, accuses Nathaphop of sex harassment
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 28/01/2018
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The state-school director in Bua Yai district under probe for allegedly having an affair with a 14-year-old student faces a further summons after another student accused him of sexually harassing her.
Protect whistleblowers
Business, Published on 30/01/2018
» Talking about how stringent the law is may be one thing. Talking about whether the law is actually enforced is a completely different matter. On the enforcement side, interestingly, weak legislation can be more effective if it is enforced strictly.
School director in sex scandal reports, hears charges
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 31/01/2018
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A disgraced school director accused of having sex with a student at his school reported to hear police charges of depriving a girl under 15 years of parental care for sexual molestation and defaming a woman who exposed the scandal.