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Road to reconciliation: Listening, being tolerant
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 27/10/2012
» Supporters of efforts to end a decade of political polarisation are seeing grounds for hope following discussions held around the country.
Cabinet to consider help package for SMEs
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 23/04/2012
» The Labour Ministry on Tuesday will seek cabinet approval for remedial packages for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) suffering from unmanageable costs because of the government's wage policy.
ALRC: End impunity for state violence
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/08/2012
» The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) submitted a four-page written document to the Human Rights Council on Wednesday, calling for Thailand to abolish the tradition of impunity from punishment for violence by state officials.
Elation, dissent as first compensation payouts made
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/05/2012
» Elation shone clearly on the faces of those waiting to receive compensation packages for political violence at Government House on Thursday, but frustration still loomed large among those who do not yet know how much they will get, if anything, or when.
Monarchies urged, heed global change
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 09/03/2012
» The remaining monarchies around the world should be careful in they way they perform their roles as long-term global trends point to their growing irrelevance, a prominent US scholar advised in a lecture delivered to a conference at a Chulalongkorn University on Friday morning.
'Pai' freed on bail, detained soon after
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/08/2016
» CHAIYAPHUM/KHON KAEN - The anti-coup activist on hunger strike was released on bail on Friday only to be detained shortly after for violating another of the junta's orders in May last year.
Magazine editor loses lese majeste appeal
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/09/2014
» The Appeal Court yesterday upheld a lower court's 10-year lese majeste prison sentence for Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, former editor of Voice of Taksin magazine.
Tanasak the odd man out on world stage
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 30/09/2014
» Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tanasak Patimapragorn has been the government's odd man out in leading its effort to gain Western acceptance for the post-coup military regime.
The South's harshest reality
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 23/08/2014
» Six governments have come and gone since 2004, but the inferno of violence in the deep South rages on with the dead continuing to multiply and the trauma for the living never-ending.
Red-shirt prison inmates shipped out
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 30/07/2014
» The temporary "red-shirt" prison holding detainees on charges relating to the 2010 political unrest will close down when the last six inmates are sent to Ubon Ratchathani and Maha Sarakham today.