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Thais in South Korea join hands to mourn King
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/10/2016
» SEOUL - Gazing at the photo of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the foyer of the Thai embassy, Phitsamai Schroeder trembled, her eyes welled up, and she crouched on the floor.
Well of tears dries up for grieving gran
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/04/2015
» Jiem Wongnoi, who lost her daughter and grandchild on the eve of the Songkran festival, has no tears left. "The tears are all dried up in my heart," she says.
UDD to commemorate May 19 crackdown
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 18/05/2014
» Things will be different from previous commemorations of the May 19, 2010 crackdown when red shirts gather on Monday to remember the violence at Ratchaprasong and pay respects to the Italian photographer who was shot dead.
Red-shirts mourn loss, look forward to election
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 13/12/2013
» Sorrow and solidarity marked the cremation of the third red-shirt supporter killed in political violence earlier this month.
Time to 'modernise' Sangha, Sulak
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 28/10/2013
» The change of guard at the country's Sangha institution should provide a wake-up call for reforming the clergy, encouraging new generations of Thai monks to engage with modern society, a leading social critic says.
Thais pay respects to Chin Peng
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/09/2013
» The former Communist Party of Malaya leader, Chin Peng, who led a bloody insurgency against British colonial rule in the 1940s and 50s, was cremated in Bangkok Monday.
Chin Peng's remains could stay in South
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 23/09/2013
» The ashes and remains of the Communist Party of Malaya's former leader Chin Peng, who is being cremated today, are likely to be kept in southern Thailand.
Remains of Chin Peng to stay in South
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 22/09/2013
» The ashes of Chin Peng will likely be kept for remembrance in four southern villages where his Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) comrades resettled after the 1989 peace agreement, sources said Sunday.
Chin Peng tale shows difficulties of confronting history
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 19/09/2013
» Lying still in a chilled casket in his navy blue suit at a high-end hospital in Bangkok, Chin Peng's face looked smaller than he appeared when I first met him four years ago.
Former communist leader dies
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 17/09/2013
» Chin Peng, the former leader of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), passed away at a Bangkok hospital early yesterday.