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Having another go at a UNHRC seat
Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 03/08/2023
» Thailand is planning to be a candidate in the next round of elections for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), with voting on the matter due at the UN General Assembly in 2024 for a seat in 2025-2027. What might be the reasonable expectations for this and what might be an appropriate strategy for the nation to be sufficiently self-prepared?
US 2018 synagogue shooter sentenced to death
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» NEW YORK - An American truck driver was sentenced to death on Wednesday for massacring 11 Jewish worshippers five years ago in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history.
Presidential hopes darken for Senegal's Sonko
AFP, Published on 01/08/2023
» DAKAR: Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko's presidential plans have been blighted by a fresh barrage of criminal charges and the dissolution of his party ahead of next February's elections.
Lese-majeste refugee wins stock fraud case
Published on 01/08/2023
» A British court has ruled in favour of Thai businessman Nopporn Suppipat, who fled the country after facing a lese-majeste charge in 2014, in a case in which he said he was cheated out of billions of baht in the sale of shares in his company.
Pheu Thai to decide Move Forward's fate
Published on 24/07/2023
» The eight-party alliance will meet on Tuesday to conclude whether the Move Forward Party (MFP) will still join them in forming the new government after other parties refused to support the coalition in a prime ministerial vote if MFP stays on.
Police to monitor political gatherings for 3rd PM vote
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 22/07/2023
» Police have said they will closely monitor political gatherings on July 27, the day of the third round of prime ministerial voting.
Which rules count?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/07/2023
» Re: "Pita leaves chamber after court suspension ruling", (BP, July 20 ).
Teen jailed for 12 months for royal insult
Published on 20/07/2023
» A teenager has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for royal defamation, according to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR).
No jail for hospital chief over Sira slurs
Post Reporters, Published on 20/07/2023
» Mongkutwattana Hospital director, Maj Gen Dr Rianthong Nanna, was on Wednesday handed a suspended prison term and ordered to pay a 200,000-baht fine in a defamation case filed against him by Sira Jenjaka, a former Palang Pracharath Party MP for Bangkok.
Pita: No backing down from lese-majeste reform
Published on 18/07/2023
» Pita Limjaroenrat says he is willing to slow the pace of the Move Forward Party’s ambitious reform agenda if he forms a government but it would not retreat from its plan to amend the lese-majeste law.