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  • OPINION

    Army is the suspect

    News, Postbag, Published on 27/11/2017

    » The army should stop insisting it can impartially investigate the death of army cadet Pakapong "Moei" Tanyakan on campus, for "The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

  • OPINION

    Looking back at the October Revolution

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/11/2017

    » China Mieville, a novelist I much admire, has published a history of the "October Revolution" to mark its hundredth anniversary (which is actually on Nov 7, since the Russians were still using the Julian calendar in 1917). It had an unusual effect on me. It made me question whether I was right about the utter futility of that revolution.

  • LIFE

    The inciting incident

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/10/2017

    » On Sept 24, 1976, two electricians were beaten and hanged to death from the top of a gate somewhere in Nakhon Pathom, victims of an escalating right-wing terror in Thai politics of that heady decade. Two weeks later, as protests against the return to the Kingdom of former dictator Gen Thanom Kittikajorn gathered steam, students at Thammasat University staged a play about the hanging of the two men. Soon the photographs of the play were used by nationalists to whip up anger and fear of communism, which led to the massacre on the morning of Oct 6 as police and militias laid siege to the university, killing, maiming and brutalising scores of people in one of the worst incidents of bloodshed in modern Thai history.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Hit-and-run: Police officer dragged to death

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/09/2012

    » Red Bull founder's grandson hits police with black Ferrari, drags him 200 metres, runs away. Police chief suspended after trying to arrest someone else.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Chiang Mai tourist death mystery

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 15/03/2011

    » Five recent unexplained deaths, three of them at the same hotel with Coxsackie B virus present in one of the bodies.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Learning Thai: Actress death mystery

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 16/09/2012

    » Take a mysterious death, a wealthy and famous actress of the past and suspicious relatives and you have a front-page story. That happened last week. Here is the opening a Post Today story on the subject.

  • OPINION

    Understanding motives of mass shooters isn't clear cut

    News, James Knoll, Published on 27/09/2016

    » When the news of a mass shooting breaks, there are often three questions that come to mind: How many people are dead? Who was the shooter? What was their motive?

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Don't mix death and politics, reds told

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 10/05/2012

    » Red shirt supporters have been warned against exploiting the death of convicted lese majeste prisoner Ampon Tangnoppakul for political gain.

  • LIFE

    Are dietary supplements safe?

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 05/07/2016

    » The Thai tropical plant ma mui, or Mucuna pruriens, was on the public radar last year after Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha urged farmers to grow them instead of rice to cope with drought. The herb recently made newspaper headline again when a 21-year-old woman in the southern province of Trang was found dead earlier this month after taking four capsules of ma mui supplements -- samples she received after becoming a member of a direct-sale business selling the supplement product.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Gun accidents that kill family members

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 20/08/2012

    » High-profile gun accident of senator killing mother of his children on mother's day draws public attention to gun laws & gun law enforcement.

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