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Thailand still a bolthole for North Koreans
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 17/11/2016
» Thailand remains the safest route for asylum seekers from North Korea seeking to get to South Korea, despite frequent crackdowns by officials, according to defectors who have settled in the South's capital, Seoul.
Reform jargon not enough, government warned
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/09/2016
» The government's "Thailand 4.0" policy would fail to deliver unless the government also can kick off critical investment in human capital, further reform tax, implement a multi-year budget, and reduce corruption through deregulation and transparency, economists said.
Scholar urges quest for maritime peace
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 23/07/2016
» No immediate solutions to decades-long maritime disputes are expected from the Asean meetings in Laos this weekend, but China and southeast Asian nations must continue to engage in dialogues for a peaceful South China Sea, a prominent Philippine scholar has said.
Disabled rights in line for Asean boost, says expert
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 23/05/2016
» The Thai representative on the Asean human rights body has pledged to accelerate work on people with disabilities during his second term after he was reappointed quietly by the Foreign Ministry.
Asean civil society meet dodges Laos for E Timor
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 25/04/2016
» In the second decade of the Asean civil society and people's forum, the civic groups will meet not in the host country for the first time, but in non-Asean member East Timor instead.
Keep capital punishment 'off agenda'
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/04/2016
» Thailand was urged to keep its non-execution status for another three years to be technically considered an abolitionist state, said Amnesty International (AI), as it launched its annual report yesterday showing an alarming rise of over 1,600 executions worldwide last year.
Canada puts climate atop diplomatic concerns
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 18/01/2016
» A fresh and ambitious Justin Trudeau administration has mainstreamed the climate change agenda into its foreign policy engagement with Thailand, but comprehensive bilateral relations must await a return to democracy in Thailand, says Canada's ambassador to Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
Lao activist case moving slowly
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 15/12/2015
» The enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone, a Lao activist who disappeared in December 2012, will be probed until there is an answer, a forum was told.
Qatar seeks closer ties with Thailand
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 14/12/2015
» Qatar, a tiny Gulf state with the world's highest income per capita, is keen to expand economic and social ties with Thailand and other countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS).
Paiboon calls for new push in drugs war
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/10/2015
» Border cooperation and help for farmers are key to preventing trafficking of precursor chemicals and providing alternative socio-economic development plans for drug-producing nations, said Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya Monday.