• OPINION

  Power is the regime's drug

  News, Editorial, Published on 15/05/2019

  » If power is as addictive as a drug, the military regime must have been overdosed with its latest appointment of its trusted friends and family members who will run the Senate for the next five years and have a say in the selection of at least two prime ministers.

• OPINION

  Curb land reform excess

  News, Editorial, Published on 12/08/2019

  » While Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has insisted that tackling inequality is a priority of his government, a recent move of one of his cabinet members on land reform seems to suggest otherwise.

• OPINION

  A free and fair Senate

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 14/03/2024

  » With the election of a new set of senators on the horizon, curiosity is growing to see if past blunders can be avoided so as not to stigmatise the Upper House.

• OPINION

  Temple row needs fixing

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/07/2023

  » A long-standing row between the abbot of Wat Kalaya and the noble Pravitra family demonstrates loopholes in conservation laws and poor enforcement as several heritage places are being threatened in the name of development.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  Land saga a test of morals

  News, Editorial, Published on 14/11/2019

  » The recent land scandal involving the outspoken MP for Ratchaburi, Pareena Kraikupt, poses a major challenge to the principles of land reform for needy farmers.

• OPINION

  Updating the war on drugs

  News, Editorial, Published on 22/11/2016

  » Governments and security agencies worldwide are always trying to catch up with society. Nothing illustrates this like the global rethink on the four-decade war on drugs. Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya continues to look for a policy that somehow acknowledges both a common disgust with the "war", and the fact that the public is becoming better educated and more tolerant of its actual dangers.

• OPINION

  Uighurs' plight a lesson for govt

  News, Editorial, Published on 09/04/2023

  » The case of 63 members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church who were arrested for overstaying visas in Pattaya last week brings back memories of the notorious repatriation of another group of Uighur refugees back to China in 2014.

• OPINION

  Don't back Uighur abuse

  News, Editorial, Published on 23/11/2019

  » Secret Chinese government documents leaked to The New York Times have provided chilling details about its "no mercy" approach to repression of Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. The revelation should serve as a reminder to Thai admirers of Chinese President Xi Jinping of the brutal and paranoid reality of his regime.

• OPINION

  Activists need protection

  News, Editorial, Published on 14/05/2019

  » Thailand's already battered human rights record has fallen another notch following reports of the mysterious disappearance of three activists accused of lese majeste while in exile in Vietnam.

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