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    Songkran celebrations continue with Wan Lai Festival

    Life, Post Reporters, Published on 18/04/2024

    » As Songkran festivities end in most parts of the country, Chon Buri is continuing Thai New Year celebrations with the Wan Lai Festival -- which began on Tuesday and runs until Sunday -- on the mainland and islands.

  • News & article

    Just desserts, Suu Kyi

    News, Postbag, Published on 09/02/2021

    » Re: "Myanmar journalists wait and watch", Opinion, Feb 7).

  • News & article

    Suu Kyi stands up to lawsuit avalanche

    News, Larry Jagan, Published on 25/11/2019

    » Myanmar's top leaders -- both military and civilian -- have been shell-shocked by the avalanche of international legal cases they are now facing. In the space of days, three cases have been lodged in separate courts, all intended to make the Myanmar government and the country's military leaders accountable for the horrendous events that unfolded in strife-torn western Rakhine state during military operations over the last three years. These forced nearly a million Muslims, or Rohingya as they call themselves, to flee to safety in Bangladesh.

  • News & article

    Ethnic parties give wake-up call to NLD

    News, Larry Jagan, Published on 06/11/2018

    » Analysts are poring over the results of Myanmar's by-elections which took place on Saturday, vainly trying to read the tea leaves, and perhaps reading too much into them. But it was certainly a wake-up call for both major parties -- the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) and the previous governing party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) -- but the lessons that can be drawn for the future are limited.

  • News & article

    Myanmar's peace process stumbles on

    News, Larry Jagan, Published on 19/03/2018

    » Myanmar's peace process is precariously poised with Panglong -- or the national peace conference as it is formally called -- set to meet in May. Several more ethnic groups -- including the Wa -- have agreed to sign the national ceasefire agreement (NCA). But, despite this, the peace process is in danger of disintegrating.

  • News & article

    Rakhine violence leaves Aung San Suu Kyi reeling

    News, Larry Jagan, Published on 28/08/2017

    » Myanmar's restive western state of Rakhine erupted into violence on Friday, leaving the government's efforts to find a solution to the communal tension there in tatters. Insurrection and arson engulfed large areas around Maungdaw and Buthidaung.

  • News & article

    Into the strange forest

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/09/2016

    » The dirt road is dry and red, scorched by the Isan sun. The headmaster is wary, sardonic, and enervated by the heat. The students, or at least some of them, are bored and ironic ("What do you want to be when you grow up?" a teacher asks. "A bank robber," he deadpans.) Next to this poor state school is a forest, sun-dappled, mysterious and probably haunted. Girls are warned not to go in there because they may never come back out.

  • News & article

    Thai PBS: Change of leadership

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 11/10/2012

    » The new boss at Thai PBS explains the channel's innovative programs & how they cover important issues that for-profit TV ignores.

  • News & article

    BBC royal documentary rediscovered

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/05/2012

    » Few Thais have seen the BBC’s remarkable three-hour documentary on His Majesty the King shot in the late 1970s and entitled Soul of the Nation. That is likely to change.

  • Forum

    Writer jailed for 'insulting' Thai royals

    By Voice, Created on: 19/01/2009, Last updated on: 17/06/2009

    » Writer jailed for 'insulting' Thai royals Australian writer Harry Nicolaides is jailed for three years after being found guilty of insulting the Thai monarchy in his novel. Today news from the BBC, after heard the news I thought that maybe it time that maybe we should all discussing this kind of...

    • Yellow_Shirt commented : [quote="villager":1jhuxjrt][quote="pachangamac042":1jhuxjrt]Dear Victor, going back to the topic, “The court said a passage about the book's [color=#FF0000:1jhuxjrt]fictional[/color:1jhuxjrt] pr*nce caused "dishonour" to the rºyals. Only 50 copies of Mr Nicolaides [color=#FF0000:1jhuxjrt]novel [/color:1jhuxjrt]were ever printed.” – BBC online news today This guy goes to jail, for writing a FICTIONAL NOVEL, because they felt dishonoured by a passage in a fiction novel? Let us get real here please. He did not name anybody, it is a novel, it is fiction, nowhere in the world you go to jail for that. Well yes, you do in Thailand. Murders walk free in this country but a want to be novelist ends up in jail for wrtting a fiction book? Am I missing something here?[/quote:1jhuxjrt] Yeah Mac, you make a very valid point, there is something quite wrong about this decision in my view , i think the worst thing is as you pointed out the guy had already been in the "slammer for 5 months before the verdict was handed down if i,m correct.[/quote:1jhuxjrt] Hello everyone this case is a hard one unless we can read what happen in the court case then it will be very hard to judge. but the Australian government is working on a pardon for him with Thai government. but on the flip side I hope this guy is not looking for stardom as some people have done around the world just a TV interview he could command $50000 AUD and up and all depending how it plays it out plus the news papers and magazines and if it is really good maybe small movie let see.

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