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    More flak for govt over delay

    News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/02/2023

    » Academics have stepped up calls for the government to stop postponing enforcement of key provisions of the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act.

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    Covid fatigue

    News, Postbag, Published on 23/08/2021

    » Re: "Virus cases pass 1 million", (BP, Aug 21).

  • News & article

    Uni hospital bears brunt

    News, Published on 09/05/2021

    » Thammasat University Field Hospital, which opened in early 2020 when the first wave of coronavirus hit the country, is on 24-hour alert to receive further admissions as hospitals spill over during this far more deadly third round of infections.

  • News & article

    Viral innovations

    Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 08/05/2020

    » This pandemic has revealed a lot of things. For starters, booze is apparently a necessity and we were this close to rioting on the streets when it seemed like the ban wasn't about to be lifted. People who didn't give a crap about others were exposed but thankfully that was overshadowed by news of people helping out and being kind, decent human beings. We've realised just how much we rely on those who deliver our food, how much we miss travelling and whether we like to admit it or not, we actually miss going to work. To top this, the ingenuity of people has also been revealed and a bunch of new innovations have been created to help out as we try and recover from this life-altering state. This week, we've got innovations from Thailand that have sprung up in response to Corona time.

  • News & article

    A story for our times

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 07/09/2017

    » Under oppressive regimes, artists are often forced to turn true stories into metaphors or disguise them in the stories of others to escape censorship, or much worse fates. The atmosphere of fear and the sense of stagnation perpetuated by such rule can have such insidious effects that the practice of wrapping true stories in the safe veil of the cryptic sometimes crosses into self-censorship and becomes habit-forming.

  • News & article

    Women's prison orders activist body search probe

    News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 14/05/2016

    » A women's prison in Bangkok has ordered a probe into the alleged maltreatment of a female student activist and promised to introduce bio-body scan equipment at women's prisons within three months, a senior official said on Friday.

  • News & article

    Free schooling change plan wins praise

    News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 28/04/2016

    » The proposed change in the government's 12-year free education programme set to start from the pre-school level instead of Prathom 1 (Grade 1) as laid down in the draft charter should help solve a raft of problems in education, a seminar has been told.

  • News & article

    Key challenges for 2015

    Business, Post Reporters, Published on 05/01/2015

    » Thais are hopeful that the Year of the Goat will be an easier and more prosperous one than the rough and bumpy Year of the Horse. 

  • News & article

    Test writers urgently needed, Niets says

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 03/04/2013

    » Producing 16 national tests each year requires a permanent staff of academics and experts, the Niets chairman says, citing countries like South Korea who employ hundreds to do the job.

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    Coming soon

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 07/03/2011

    » The general election is likely to come sooner rather than later, the prime minister says.

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