• OPINION

  Online hate fuels divide

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 27/08/2020

  » The past few weeks have seen the country plunge into a deep divide, with people on opposite sides of the political spectrum exploiting social media and digital platforms to exchange hate speech.

• OPINION

  Why futile wars on drugs persist

  News, Editorial, Published on 31/05/2020

  » This month, two international rights advocate groups highlighted "drug war" killings as a result of the brutal campaign initiated in 2016 by Rodrigo Duterte, the maverick president of the Philippines.

• OPINION

  Weaponising the origin of Covid-19

  News, Editorial, Published on 24/05/2020

  » The push for an independent investigation into the origins of the coronavirus is picking up steam.

• OPINION

  Tiger deaths covered up?

  News, Editorial, Published on 17/09/2019

  » The country has been shocked by news of the high death toll among tigers in the care of the Wildlife Conservation Department at two state-owned sanctuaries in Ratchaburi.

• OPINION

  Isoc a proxy for army rule

  News, Editorial, Published on 24/06/2019

  » Once a new cabinet is sworn in, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) should be dissolved as it earlier planned. The country has had enough of having a military regime in charge of civil affairs.

• OPINION

  Justice failing ethnic groups

  News, Editorial, Published on 25/05/2019

  » For ethnic people, trying to get a shred of justice from authorities can be an ordeal. But it can be even more difficult when the judicial process is handled exclusively by military courts. That says a great deal about the quest for vindication by the families of a Lahu activist, Chaiyaphum Pasae, and a Lisu man, Abe Sae Mu, who were gunned down in broad daylight by army rangers in separate incidents in Chiang Mai more than two years ago.

• OPINION

  Big Tobacco wants in

  News, Editorial, Published on 27/02/2019

  » The Food and Drug Administration made the correct decision to reject the first private request to grow, process and sell marijuana.

• 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

  Fun police out in force

  News, Editorial, Published on 29/11/2018

  » Beyond the need to maintain social order, the Prayut Chan-o-cha government's new royal decree, which bans issuance of new business licences for a range of entertainment venues including pubs, bars, nightclubs and massage parlours in 22 small provinces, does not explain other reasons.

• OPINION

  Double-faced drugs policy

  News, Editorial, Published on 20/11/2018

  » The government has become somewhat schizophrenic about its policies on banned drugs. It has sent mixed signals about the path to legalising medical marijuana. Providing a programme leading to the needed reform of law on illicit drugs is even less clear. In just the past few weeks, senior officials and ministers have indicated, rather, that they expect to renew and redoubled the "war on drugs" policies that have failed so badly.

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