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Army keeps eye on Thammasat University ceremony
News, Post Reporters, Published on 31/10/2020
» Military personnel have been brought in to provide security at Thammasat University's Tha Prachan campus in Bangkok while His Majesty the King presides over a two-day graduation ceremony which ends on Saturday.
Opposition to amnesty bill escalates
Online Reporters, Published on 04/11/2013
» At least 30,000 protesters against the amnesty bill converged on Bangkok streets on Monday to demand the draft legislation pushed through the House by the Pheu Thai Party be immediately dropped.
Memes of dissent
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 14/08/2023
» It is not as whimsical as it seems. After the onset of the largest pro-democracy movement since the military coup in 2014, university and high school students cuddled hamster dolls and ran around in circles. "Delicious tax!", hundreds of them sang, from a cartoon jingle at Democracy Monument in late July 2020. Crowdsourced from a social media platform, Hamtaro, a shorthand for caged mice demanding freedom, spawned many internet memes, including a greedy caricature of junta leader Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha.
Mother accused of assaulting her son
News, Published on 10/02/2021
» Student unrest: At least a hundred Ratsadon group protesters gathered at Pathumwan intersection in the capital yesterday evening after the Criminal Court denied bail to four of their key members charged with lese majeste.
Vorasit 'legally owns Sri Panwa'
News, Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 01/10/2020
» Sri Panwa Phuket resort owner, Vorasit Issara, has legal ownership of the land, the provincial governor said yesterday.
Prayut's future written in stars
News, Published on 12/09/2020
» Astrologers say Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's administration will have its toughest time yet from now until the middle of next month or the beginning of November.
Long overdue history review
Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/11/2020
» If the Education Ministry has its way, the subject of Thai history in the Basic Education Core Curriculum will be overhauled, with the revised version available for the 2022 academic year.
Full circle after 24 years
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/08/2016
» Greetings from Nakhon Pathom. This week your favourite columnist finds himself in a hotel room for five days in this little town just west of Bangkok. "Little town" is hardly a good description, though it was certainly that way when I first visited here a quarter of a century ago. Bangkok has since extended her tentacles, swallowing up the likes of Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi and Minburi.
An appreciation of a remarkable king
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 16/10/2016
» Not being Thai, whatever I say concerning His Majesty the King will be inadequate. But having lived in Thailand for the past 47 years, I feel like he has also become my king and I would like to at least attempt to express my admiration for what he achieved in his 70-year reign.
Knockin' on parody's door
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 07/11/2016
» Enough about Bob Dylan and his Nobel Prize in Literature. He took his time but finally accepted the honour and will make it to the ceremony in Stockholm in December if he can.