• OPINION

  Hong Kong: It's purely symbolic

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/08/2019

  » The anti-government demonstrations in Hong Kong are now eight weeks old and still going strong, but the level of violence is rising.

• OPINION

  Red Bull case must rev up

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 29/02/2024

  » After a long delay, justice is starting to take its course in the notorious hit-and-run case involving Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya, the Red Bull scion who allegedly killed a policeman in the Thong Lor area of Sukhumvit in September 2012 before fleeing the country.

• OPINION

  Wanted: Russia's Vladimir Putin, war rogue

  News, Published on 03/04/2023

  » The internet has recently been flooded with AI-generated images of Russian President Vladimir Putin being put on trial or incarcerated. But while the images are fake, international criminal justice is becoming a reality. On March 17, after years of being mired in controversy and crisis, the International Criminal Court surprised the world by formally indicting Mr Putin and issuing a warrant for his arrest.

• OPINION

  The global ambitions of Chinese law

  News, Published on 05/12/2022

  » A recent report by the NGO Safeguard Defenders about the existence of "secret Chinese police stations" in cities around the world, including New York, has sparked investigations in several European countries and attracted the attention of the FBI. But while these investigations aim to protect the rule of law from subversion, they also highlight how unprepared Western democracies are to grapple with China's growing international influence.

• OPINION

  Aussie ties out of the woods, raring to go

  Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 27/09/2022

  » 'Thais that bind: secret mission ends Aussie's torment," read the front page headline of The Australian on Nov 22, 2020. It was referring to Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the British-Australian academic arrested in late 2018 by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard as she was about to leave Tehran over an espionage charge. She was subsequently sentenced to 10 years in jail in a secret trial.

• OPINION

  Beating scams, trafficking no easy task

  News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 01/09/2022

  » This region has been in the news in recent weeks in regard to online scams and human trafficking, compounded by other forms of exploitation such as forced labour and forced criminality.

• OPINION

  Stand with Türkiye against terror

  Oped, Published on 15/07/2022

  » On the evening of July 15, 2016, the "Fethullahist Terrorist Organization" (Feto) launched a bloody coup attempt against the people and the government of my country. Their aim was to establish a radical, fundamentalist regime, loyal only to their ringleader Fetullah Gülen.

• OPINION

  Thai 3Rs secret to handling US, China

  Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 19/07/2022

  » Recent visits by the foreign ministers of China and the US created lots of buzz among the Thai public and diplomatic community regarding the direction of Thai foreign policy. Many questions were raised but no satisfactory answers were given.

• OPINION

  The battle to destroy the whistleblowers

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/10/2021

  » A long time ago now I was asked to do a television series about the world's intelligence services -- and I turned it down flat. My main reason was a feeling that there was less to the whole intelligence world than met the eye, and the subsequent 30 years have only served to confirm that judgement.

• OPINION

  Peru on edge after Castillo's election victory

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/08/2021

  » Peru holds the current record for revolving presidents -- three came and went in a month last November; for coronavirus deaths -- almost 6,000 per million, and for the youngest-looking president -- seen from afar, under his trademark straw hat, he looks like a 13-year-old boy. But appearances are deceiving.

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