• OPINION

  Angkhana fights on after 20 long years

  News, Editorial, Published on 17/03/2024

  » During the peak of the violence in the Deep South, prominent human rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit was abducted and disappeared without a trace on March 12, 2004. Despite two decades having passed, truth and justice remain elusive, compounding his family's pain stemming from an unjust justice system.

• OPINION

  Southern comfort?

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/01/2024

  » Yesterday was no run-of-the-mill Thursday; rather, it was a red-letter day marking the decades-long violence plaguing the three southernmost provinces.

• OPINION

  Climate wake-up call

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 03/01/2024

  » As the rest of the country celebrated the festive season, people in the deep South provinces struggled with the effects of severe flooding.

• OPINION

  Quarries need blasting

  News, Editorial, Published on 22/12/2023

  » The upcoming New Year will be a time for joy and celebrations for most of us, yet several communities in the southern provinces of Pattani and Krabi may not be celebrating as they are busy fighting to save their heritage and ecological system, they say are under threat from quarrying.

• OPINION

  The gift of governance

  News, Editorial, Published on 21/12/2023

  » In a dire attempt to make people feel better, the Srettha Thavisin government is carrying out some New Year gift-giving this month.

• OPINION

  Charm blitz a smokescreen

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 19/12/2023

  » As the public has been focused on the government's "soft power" push and what it actually means, little attention has been paid to the subtle attempts by the armed forces to woo ministers and lawmakers into giving them what they want.

• OPINION

  Red faces in fugitive saga

  News, Editorial, Published on 30/11/2023

  » A villain wanted by state authorities, runaway inmate Chaowalit Thongduang, who remains at large more than a month after escaping from a southern hospital, projects himself as a "victim of injustice."

• OPINION

  Annual pollution woes begin again

  Editorial, Published on 22/10/2023

  » It may not be immediately obvious, given how grey the skies have been over the past couple of days, but the southwest monsoon has begun to shift, signalling the coming end to the rainy season.

• OPINION

  Decree no longer a help

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 17/10/2023

  » Today, the cabinet will decide whether to renew the emergency decree for the deep southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat. The decision will show whether the Srettha government has the audacity to change a hitherto hard-line security policy in the region.

• OPINION

  All older cons need support

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 26/08/2023

  » Video clips of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra doing exercise recently went viral. Images showed Thaksin vigorously punching and kicking a training bag, and he was also filmed lifting dumbbells and in a swimming pool. The scenes were presumably recorded some time ago during his self-exile overseas.

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