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Censorship a futile tactic
News, Editorial, Published on 20/10/2020
» The embattled Prayut Chan-o-cha government seems set to ignore calls by several sectors of society to compromise and hold out the olive branch of a seat at the negotiating table for the young protest leaders. Instead, it looks increasingly prepared to up the ante by censoring the news reports of media outlets sympathetic to the cause of the pro-democracy movement.
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Defusing heritage rows
Oped, Editorial, Published on 18/04/2024
» As the Songkran water-splashing festival draws to a close in Thailand and Cambodia, the war of words among netizens -- sparked by a Thai influencer who made sarcastic comments about the Khmer New Year -- drags on.
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Red faces in fugitive saga
News, Editorial, Published on 30/11/2023
» A villain wanted by state authorities, runaway inmate Chaowalit Thongduang, who remains at large more than a month after escaping from a southern hospital, projects himself as a "victim of injustice."
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When fake news curbs go too far
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/04/2022
» As Covid-19 pandemic restrictions ease and society gradually learns to live with the disease, Thailand is at a point where it must decide whether to usher in a sense of normalcy or continue enforcing regulations -- some of which are aimed at what the government sees as a different kind of malady.
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Call time on booze rules
News, Editorial, Published on 19/03/2022
» Reports that K-pop superstar Lisa Manoban has become a brand ambassador for a whisky-maker have caused something of a frenzy here in her home country.
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Army must clear its name
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/03/2021
» Plain denial will no longer suffice in this case. It will not do justice to the allegation that the military was engaged in "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" on social media to influence people's opinions in the far South by having the Defence Ministry look into the matter either.
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PM must embrace youthful ingenuity
News, Editorial, Published on 25/10/2020
» Although the October 6, 1976 massacre marked a bloody end to the hope of student activists in the aftermath of the popular uprising three years earlier, the spark ignited by the 1973 generation has flickered back to life this year as protests led by a new student movement have flared up across the nation.
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Stop the cyber bullies
Oped, Editorial, Published on 24/09/2020
» When Pacharaporn Chantarapradit, a young beauty contestant vying for the Miss Grand 2020 title, voiced support for the pro-democracy demonstrators during a question-and-answer session, she might have expected some criticism. But some of those who disagreed with her views went too far.
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Don't politicise the Hagia Sophia
News, Editorial, Published on 19/07/2020
» After it was designated as a museum in 1936 by the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Hagia Sophia took on a different meaning. It wasn't just a place of worship as it had been under the Byzantines and the Ottomans. It became a meeting place for people of different faiths but held by no religion in particular. It was a place where laymen, leaders, popes and presidents met to marvel at the grandeur of its domed roof, which has seen empires come and go over its long history.
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