• News & article

  Righting land deed wrongs

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 06/10/2023

  » A court saga over land ownership involving Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Progressive Movement, suggests managing state land can be a messy business.

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  Treat activist professionally

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/03/2021

  » The arrest on Wednesday of singer and political activist Chai-amorn Kaewwiboonpan, aka Ammy The Bottom Blues, has turned up the political heat.

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  Change tack in far South

  News, Editorial, Published on 09/11/2019

  » The government and army's responses to this week's deadly attack at a civil defence volunteer checkpoint in Yala province in the deep South are deeply worrying, largely because of their insistence on sticking with numerous failed and questionable means of tackling violence in the restive region.

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  End military interrogation

  News, Editorial, Published on 27/09/2018

  » In a court ruling on Tuesday on what has been dubbed the "budu bomb" case, the legitimacy and transparency of the military's unusual role in the justice process has again been questioned.

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  Disgraceful detentions

  News, Editorial, Published on 03/05/2018

  » The latest temporary detention of land rights activists in Chiang Mai and Lamphun by security authorities is disgraceful.

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  Grave danger in Cambodia

  News, Editorial, Published on 07/09/2017

  » After operating for more than 24 years, the English-language The Cambodia Daily faced its final curtain call this week, with the last edition hitting newsstands on Monday. Observers believe the closure, which stemmed from a tax dispute between the Daily and Prime Minister Hun Sen's government, is a threat to the freedoms of the media in the country.

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  Stop silencing the people

  News, Editorial, Published on 22/07/2017

  » Army chief Chalermchai Sittisart's recent decision to dismiss a call by 176 Thai and foreign academics for a relaxation or cessation of the rules that stop people from expressing their civil rights -- for example the ban on political gatherings -- comes as no surprise.

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  Liu's legacy will live on

  News, Editorial, Published on 15/07/2017

  » Even though the totalitarian rulers of China might have succeeded in preventing Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo from living longer, they will find it hard to prevent people in China and elsewhere from keeping the legacy of the human rights and democracy advocate alive.

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  Foolish move with Amnesty

  News, Editorial, Published on 30/09/2016

  » An attempt by the Labour Ministry and police to stop representatives of international human rights organisation Amnesty International (AI) from releasing a report on the culture of torture and ill-treatment that has allegedly prevailed since the 2014 coup offers absolutely no benefit to the country.

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  Credibility is at stake

  News, Editorial, Published on 01/08/2016

  » With less than a week until the referendum, there is no shortage of opinion about the draft charter. In these final few days, it seems discussion is becoming more open, and several leading voices have stated their preference in no uncertain terms, causing speculation as to whether they have violated the Referendum Act. But with such limited time left, it has become apparent that voters are short of information, if not outright fact-starved.

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