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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.
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.
'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.
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.