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Paranoia reigns amid crackdown on critics
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 31/01/2016
» Academics and human rights experts have accused the junta of being paranoid and wasting scarce resources on protecting itself at the expense of socio-economic stability for the country.
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Regime 'toughens Section 112'
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/12/2015
» Despite an annual decline in lawsuits over the past couple of years, the lese majeste law has been toughened under the junta, in which a military court has replaced a civilian one in ruling on criminal charges that carry a maximum jail term of 15 years for each count, lawyers and critics say.
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Scholars fret over harassment
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/11/2015
» Thai academics are concerned about ongoing harassment by the authorities of people who express their opinions.
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Finding 'fatherhood' in unlikely places
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/12/2015
» Being a father transcends bloodlines, biological ties and even the health conditions of the offspring, as renowned artist Sannarong Singhaseni has discovered. When Sannarong first dated his future wife at Silpakorn University in the 1970s, he often spent time with her younger sister, Samanjit Saengjak, a little girl with Down Syndrome.
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What Tingsamitr on the way forward for the NHRC
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 19/12/2015
» Former Supreme Court judge What Tingsamitr, 65, has taken the chairmanship of the troubled National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Here he explains his roles and responds to critics’ doubts of his knowledge and experiences on human rights protection.
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Swiss blackmailer appeals for suspended jail term
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 14/10/2015
» Swiss blackmailer Xavier Andre Justo has asked the Appeals Court to order the suspension of the three-year prison term handed down by the Criminal Court in August for the attempted extortion of his former employer, PetroSaudi.
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The diplomatic fields
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 26/10/2015
» Smiling and neatly-dressed in a sampot hol, or long silk skirt, Eat Sophea leaves an impression of a cheerful and easy-going lady at official functions, from National Day receptions to cultural trips full of the diplomatic corps. The tall and slim Cambodian ambassador to Thailand also knows how to enjoy herself at dancing parties where ambassadorial formality gives way to a measure of joyful foot-tapping.
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Swiss blackmailer's bail request rejected
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 26/10/2015
» Convicted extortionist Xavier Andre Justo was deemed a flight risk and denied bail pending appeal on Monday by the Southern Bangkok Criminal Court, according to his lawyer Worasit Wiriyapiboon.
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NLD unlikely to win in diverse Rakhine state
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 06/11/2015
» SITTWE, MYANMAR - Despite the nationwide popularity of Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, neither her National League for Democracy (NLD) nor the ruling military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) are likely to win Sunday's polls in ethnically diverse Rakhine state, where deadly sectarian riots between Buddhists and Muslims occurred in 2012.
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History beckons in pivotal vote
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/11/2015
» Yangon: Voters are fronting up to polling booths across Myanmar this morning faced with a stark choice — endorse army-backed reform or push into an uncertain democratic future.
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