Showing 1-10 of 437 results
-
War correspondent David Butler dies
News, Published on 13/01/2012
» David Butler, a former Vietnam War correspondent, editor of Playboy magazine and long-time Thailand resident died on Wednesday after a battle with throat cancer. He was 70.
-
Former sweet troopers hit the streets
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 27/01/2012
» Since the start of this week, motorists in central Bangkok might be thinking traffic police in the capital are much sweeter and friendlier than before.
-
Priewpan plans island jail for drug inmates
News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/01/2012
» National police chief Priewpan Damapong yesterday floated the idea of building an island prison for drug inmates.
-
'Joss Stick' Stands alone, Defiant and Unapologetic
News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 29/01/2012
» Abhinya Sawatvarakorn trusts in democracy, but she can't say the same for the legal system and the political traditions of her country. But her fate may be decided by the very legal system she distrusts, a system she believes is influenced by politics.
-
At first taste of freedom, dreams of a new path
Spectrum, Published on 29/01/2012
» It was Jan 12, the night before they were freed. Pyone Cho, a leading member of the 88 Generation Students Group detained in the remote Kawthaung Prison in southern Myanmar's Tenasserim Division, was immersed in a weekly journal when a prison guard he hadn't noticed standing in front of his cell asked him what he was reading.
-
Recent wildlife seizures open lid on burgeoning industry
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/03/2012
» A series of large hauls of live and dead wild animals _ and especially tigers _ over the past two months has blown the lid off the illegal wildlife trade and unlicensed breeding of exotic animals in Thailand.
-
Constitution Court still vital for the country
News, Published on 02/04/2012
» Some MPs argue in favour of rewriting the charter to abolish the Constitution Court. Court president Wasan Soypisudh, in an interview with KING-OUA LAOHONG, argues the court is in fact a vital organ to resolve constitutional conflicts and is making efforts to maintain its relevance.
-
Restoration could wreck temple treasures
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 08/04/2012
» Phra That Lampang Luang temple has survived the elements and battles for about 500 years, but concern is growing that it might fall prey to modern day efforts to restore it to its original glory.
-
Boozing altruist a 'Kindly Killer'
News, Jim Algie, Published on 06/05/2012
» What sort of person leans over a sub-machine gun bolted to the floor, takes aim at a target on a white curtain in front of a condemned man strapped to a cross, and then pumps 10 to 15 bullets into his back?
-
A mercenary's tale
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 06/05/2012
» Peter Slade was once in prison for five years on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit another murder and attempting to overthrow a foreign government _ partly a victim, he says, of a corrupt Australian judicial system. He fought in the Vietnam War, was a security contractor in 1973 Rhodesia, a debt collector at home in Melbourne and as far afield as Nigeria, and arrived in reconstruction-era Cambodia and Iraq without connections but a desire to start anew, in stints that would last some seven years each. He witnessed first-hand the Bangkok coup that killed journalists Neil Davis and Bill Latch in 1985 and was on the beach in Patong the morning the tsunami struck Phuket in 2004.
Your recent history
-
Recently searched
-
Recently viewed links