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Forsaking food for a cause
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 14/02/2012
» Panitan Prueksakasemsuk, a student who started a 112-hour hunger strike on Saturday in sympathy for his jailed father, is wondering whether he will follow in his father's activist footsteps.
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Attackers out for revenge, pundits say
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/02/2012
» The bomb blasts in Bangkok are more likely to be the work of independent armed groups than state-sponsored organisations, a local academic says.
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Migrant workers 'unprotected'
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 04/03/2012
» The International Labour Organisation has criticised Thailand for failing to include migrant workers in its Workmen's Compensation Fund.
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International journalists: Free Somyot
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 23/03/2012
» The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged Thai authorities to release Voice of Taksin magazine editor-in-chief Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, who is being detained without bail pending a verdict in his ongoing trial on charges of lese majeste.
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Kachin refugees face aid crisis
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 27/06/2012
» As many as 10,000 ethnic Kachin refugees from Myanmar are facing food and water shortages and inadequate sanitation at makeshift camps in China, a human rights group said yesterday.
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US sets an example
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 13/11/2012
» The US presidential election last week, which saw the first black American president being re-elected, did more than delight many Thais.
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UN denounces Somyot verdict
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 25/01/2013
» Jailing former editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk for lese majeste has undermined freedom of expression and is a setback to human rights, says the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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Jihadists do exist, and talks are the only option
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 22/02/2013
» There have been many high-profile incidents involving the southern insurgency in the past few weeks. Former prime minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh was reportedly approached to help find a solution to the violence. The military was successful in quashing a separatist attack with 16 militants killed, but this was quickly followed by retaliation with bomb blast scares in Pattani. The Malaysian king's Bangkok visit, previously scheduled for this week, was also postponed due to his poor health.
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Govt, military must adapt to ensure success of South talks
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 17/05/2013
» After checking old news clippings of mine and listening to security officers on the ground, I've come to believe the government has not been very successful in tackling the separatist movement in the far South.
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Activists riled by PhD for CPV leader
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 26/06/2013
» Regional human rights defenders are upset by Thammasat University's conferral of an honorary doctorate degree on the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).
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