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The blame game won't cut it with Covid
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 29/12/2020
» Taweesilp Visanuyothin, the spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), was right in pleading for tolerance and empathy amid anti-Myanmar hate speech and discrimination after the recent surge of new infections centred around Samut Sakhon shrimp market.
'Graft-busting' draft charter falls short
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 04/08/2016
» Thailand's 1997 constitution was widely praised as the "People's Charter" for unprecedented public participation in the drafting process while the 2007 constitution was dubbed by some as the "de-Thaksinisation edict" as it was drafted after the 2006 coup that ousted then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Lessons from the live suicide broadcast
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 25/05/2016
» For almost five hours last Thursday, many TV viewers were captivated by the live broadcast of an attempted arrest of a double-murder suspect which tragically ended in his suicide.
The big squeeze: media profits versus ethics
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 22/03/2016
» The character assassination of Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda, a famous news show host and media mogul, earlier this month after he was convicted by the Criminal Court for bribery and malfeasance may have seemed far-fetched for an otherwise ethically-lukewarm Thai society.
Censoring free speech, caging bright minds
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 23/02/2016
» Free speech may be a luxury in a society under a military regime. But for university students yearning to make their political voices heard, free speech may indeed become a struggle as experienced by a group of university students during the traditional 71st Chulalongkorn University-Thammasat University football match at the National Stadium two weeks ago.
Charter draft puts media freedom at risk
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 18/01/2016
» It has been a precarious time for rights and freedom in Thailand, particularly the right to communicate and freedom of the press, since the May 2014 coup. But in light of revelations made last week by the coup maker-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), our communication rights may indeed be hanging by a thread.