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A sad end to popular online comic strip Khai Maew
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 22/01/2018
» Last Thursday, the Facebook page of the famous online political cartoon Khai Maew vanished from the social media site where it earlier had resided on Facebook as "cartooneggcat" for the past one year, eight months and three days. While the page's disappearance was sudden, the cause remains unclear.
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As cases rise, so should awareness
Oped, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 16/04/2021
» With the Songkran celebrations this year becoming subdued from the surging third wave of Covid-19 infections, deemed by health authorities as 10 times worse than last year's outbreak, efforts at controlling the spread of the virus are underway with contact tracing, health surveillance, compulsory quarantining, and lockdowns.
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The blame game won't cut it with Covid
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 29/12/2020
» Taweesilp Visanuyothin, the spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), was right in pleading for tolerance and empathy amid anti-Myanmar hate speech and discrimination after the recent surge of new infections centred around Samut Sakhon shrimp market.
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Fighting Covid-19 with clean hearts
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 01/04/2020
» Covid-19 is a test for humanity on many levels -- health, management, economy, innovation and more importantly, morality.
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A new 'chill' is coming to Thailand
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 17/06/2019
» Given their open and highly-accessible nature, social media platforms — such as Facebook — should be a platform for the promotion of free speech. However, as Thai society gets more polarised and divided along political lines, social media can end up creating a raft of problems that could ultimately lead to the stifling of free speech in an unprecedented manner.
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Society falls prey to disinformation
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 11/09/2018
» As Facebook executives appeared last Thursday before a Senate hearing in the United States to defend the world's most-accessed and frequented communication platform against accusations of promoting disinformation, a rigorous debate about fake news was taking centre stage at the Communication Policy Research South conference in Maputo, Mozambique, funded by the Canada-based International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
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'Graft-busting' draft charter falls short
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 04/08/2016
» Thailand's 1997 constitution was widely praised as the "People's Charter" for unprecedented public participation in the drafting process while the 2007 constitution was dubbed by some as the "de-Thaksinisation edict" as it was drafted after the 2006 coup that ousted then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Lessons from the live suicide broadcast
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 25/05/2016
» For almost five hours last Thursday, many TV viewers were captivated by the live broadcast of an attempted arrest of a double-murder suspect which tragically ended in his suicide.
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Charter draft puts media freedom at risk
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 18/01/2016
» It has been a precarious time for rights and freedom in Thailand, particularly the right to communicate and freedom of the press, since the May 2014 coup. But in light of revelations made last week by the coup maker-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), our communication rights may indeed be hanging by a thread.
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Thai PBS and the test of a public service TV
News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 26/01/2016
» Thais like to blow their own trumpet about many things -- the only country in Southeast Asia not to have been colonised, Bangkok as the capital with the most number of Facebook users, and Siam Paragon as the place with the most Instagram uploads. In 2009 a few Thais started bragging about the first public service television in Southeast Asia, the Thai Public Broadcasting Service or Thai PBS. But now is probably not the time to gloat about this, more than ever.
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