• OPINION

  Court incident leaves anti-govt protesters in lurch

  Oped, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/04/2021

  » Patiwat Saraiyaem, alias Mor Lum Bank, one of the core leaders of the anti-establishment Ratsadon group was eventually granted bail by the Criminal Court last week after he pledged not to criticise the monarchy and not join future political protests.

• OPINION

  Protesters must keep showing restraint

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/03/2021

  » A group of anti-establishment protesters, calling itself the People Go Network (PGN), has defied police warnings not to camp overnight in front of Government House, and are settling in for a long stay at that very spot.

• OPINION

  Honouring Assange, who is (almost) free at last

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/01/2021

  » On Monday morning, a British judge finally rejected the US attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and jail him forever (or at least for 175 years in a high-security 'supermax' prison) on the grounds that he is, as Joe Biden once called him, a "high-tech terrorist".

• OPINION

  'Billy' case in the balance

  News, Editorial, Published on 19/11/2019

  » The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment yesterday made a U-turn on its decision to take action against Chaiwat Limlikit-aksorn, former chief of Kaeng Krachan national park chief, who together with his team is charged with murdering Karen activist Porlajee "Billy" Rakchongcharoen.

• OPINION

  Collar bombers not scapegoats

  News, Editorial, Published on 04/08/2019

  » The series of bombings in Bangkok and Nonthaburi, which injured four people last week, is a challenge to the new Prayut Chan-o-cha administration and those in charge of security affairs.

• OPINION

  Two refugees, two different outcomes

  News, Published on 14/01/2019

  » Thailand's Proclamation: "We will not send anyone to die" -- what does this mean for Hakeem al-Araibi?

• OPINION

  From Carlos-san to Ghosn 'yougisha' (suspect)

  News, Published on 16/01/2019

  » In the autumn of 2015, Carlos Ghosn more than likely overlooked Japan's National Tax Agency obtaining information on roughly 550,000 overseas accounts as part of increasing scrutiny of wealthy residents. It is quite possible his accounts were amongst this dataset. His lawyers may have realised this, albeit far too late, when Mr Ghosn was arrested on Nov 19 accused of falsifying financial reports in underreporting his income.

• OPINION

  Don't drag on Araibi case

  News, Editorial, Published on 15/01/2019

  » The government should reconsider the continued detention of the refugee Hakeem al-Araibi, known as the refugee football player. He is being held without bail at Bangkok Remand Prison as a flight risk, while authorities from Bahrain attempt to extradite him. There is little compelling evidence to send him to a dangerous and possibly violent fate in that country. On the other hand, there are strong reasons to free him to return to Australia, where he has lived for four years in asylum while working towards citizenship.

• OPINION

  Oppressive to the last

  News, Editorial, Published on 08/11/2018

  » More than four years since the coup, there is still no end in sight to the systematic abuse of the law and intimidation by the police and military of political dissidents and ordinary citizens.

• OPINION

  A failure to communicate

  News, Editorial, Published on 20/03/2018

  » The public are about to receive a bill for tens of billions of baht for goods they didn't order. It says right on the bill itself that people don't even want most of the items. But unless there is a major change in business demands, agency recommendations and government attitude the bill will come due within weeks. The payment will save digital TV operators and mobile phone company executives who made terrible decisions, and now want the country to bail them out.

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