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Seeking truth and justice
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 27/09/2017
» After moments of introduction, Chaiyapoom's face appears on the projection screen, a makeshift silver screen like the one on which his films could have been shown. The singing voice too belongs to the 17-year-old Lahu activist, killed in March this year for resisting arrest after soldiers allegedly found methamphetamine pills in his car.
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No thanks for smoking
News, Postbag, Published on 18/09/2017
» Felix Qui in his Sept 16 letter, "Sin (taxes) of poor," has chosen to support his argument with some ill-chosen examples.
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Activist death still a mystery
News, Editorial, Published on 16/09/2017
» Almost six months after young Lahu activist Chaiyapoom Pasae was shot dead at a checkpoint in Chiang Mai's Chiang Dao district, the case remains a mystery.
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Fighting the vicious circle in the Golden Triangle
Spectrum, Published on 20/08/2017
» It took almost four hours to travel along the 160-kilometre mountainous route from Myanmar's town of Tachileik, bordering Chiang Rai, to Kengtung in the eastern state of Shan, but the officials from six neighbouring countries were determined to reach the town in a bid to establish an anti-drug centre in the state known to be a hotbed of drug production.
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A patient prescription for chronic addicts' recovery
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 30/07/2017
» 'A dictatorship wouldn't work in a place like this," Sathit tells visitors at the House of Compassion, the drug rehabilitation centre where he works in the Chom Thong district of Chiang Mai.
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Lack of equality rife
News, Postbag, Published on 28/07/2017
» Sanitsuda Ekachai in her July 25 article, "Ministry's power trip bad for people's health", points out that government officials and their families get four times the budget for their health programme than ordinary people, a situation that she sees as profoundly unequal.
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Try all men equally
News, Postbag, Published on 17/07/2017
» Re: "Political law blasted for bias, ambiguity", (BP, July 15).
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Where life and reality TV meet
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 12/06/2017
» Over the past weeks, two young women from Thailand made international news for wildly different reasons: one was Ariya Jutanugarn, a female golf player who was recently recognised as the world's No.2, the other Preeyanuch "Preaw" Nonwangchai, an attractive karaoke girl who allegedly murdered and dismembered another woman earlier this month.
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Drugs courier stopped
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/06/2017
» Military officers have intercepted a drug courier smuggling 4.2 million methamphetamine pills across the Thai-Lao border into Chiang Rai province.
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Myanmar to arrest 18 key drug fugitives
King-oua Laohong, Published on 07/06/2017
» Myanmar will arrest 18 major drug fugitives while seeking Thai development projects to end drug production among its border people, according to the narcotics control chief.
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