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Saudi envoy hopes to restore ties
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/10/2015
» Twenty-five years after downgrading ties with Bangkok, Saudi Arabia is offering an olive branch to "normalise'' its relationship with Thailand.
Activists, relatives mark 1976 massacre
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/10/2015
» Former students and activists say they remain determined to win justice for victims of the Oct 6, 1976, student massacre despite the current stark political climate and fewer people attending the annual commemoration ceremony yesterday.
PMO dealt landmark compensation defeat
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 23/08/2015
» The Prime Minister’s Office has been ordered to compensate the family of a suspect beaten to death in 2007 while in the custody of security forces in Yala.
Free bird
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 04/08/2015
» Hers is neither a story of a pretty canary in a cage, nor a Cinderella-like fairy tale of a girl who will soon get rich and find love.
Outspoken schoolgirl aims to teach Prayut a lesson in exam paper protest
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 26/07/2015
» University students are not uncommon players in Thai political history, but high-schoolers who speak up for their rights and challenge the educational system are a rare breed.
French ambassador dodges lese majeste request
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/07/2015
» The French ambassador has told the justice minister that "France doesn't have a lese majeste law" after being asked this week about whether France would extradite three Thais wanted here for insulting the monarchy.
The problem that refuses to stay silent
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/07/2015
» It was a case of deja vu. The military court’s swift proceedings against 14 students at midnight on June 26 evoked parliament’s rushed passage of the Pheu Thai-sponsored amnesty bill in the early hours of Nov 1, 2013. Regardless of political leaning, whichever side is in power always mobilises all available resources for its own benefit.
Scholar seeks justice for student activists
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 04/07/2015
» A Thammasat University vice-rector has urged the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to amend one of its previous orders to allow for the release of 14 detained students.
UN rights body urges govt to free 14 activists, drop charges
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 01/07/2015
» The United Nations' human rights body and European Union delegation have raised concerns over the 14 student activists recently arrested in Bangkok and called on the government to drop the charges against them and release them.
Dissident students unite 'in protest'
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 25/06/2015
» Anti-coup student activists from Khon Kaen who failed to report to police on June 19 arrived in Bangkok yesterday to support eight Bangkok students trying to sue authorities for allegedly violating their rights.