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United Thai Nation petitions Paetongtarn on cabinet rejig
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 11/06/2025
» United Thai Nation (UTN) Party deputy leader Suchart Chomklin, along with 21 party MPs, on Monday submitted a letter to Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra calling for a cabinet reshuffle within the UTN's ministerial quota.
Department of Corrections refutes detained Uyghurs' alleged letters calling for help
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/03/2025
» The Department of Corrections (DoC) has dismissed claims by an opposition MP that Uyghurs detained in Klongprem Prison sent letters opposing deportation to China.
AI's brain fog no defence for arts
News, Parmy Olson, Published on 05/07/2024
» Ever notice how science fiction gets things wrong about future technology? Instead of flying cars, we got viral tweets that fuelled culture wars. Instead of a fax machine on your wrist, we got memes. We're having a similar reality check with artificial intelligence. Sci-fi painted a future with computers that delivered reliable information in robotic parlance. Yet businesses who've tried plugging generative AI tools into their infrastructure have found, with some dismay, that the tools "hallucinate" and make mistakes. They are hardly reliable. And the tools themselves aren't stiff and mechanistic either. They're almost whimsical.
'One student, one tablet' resurfaces
News, Supoj Wancharoen and Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 15/09/2023
» The Education Ministry is set to dust off a programme carried out by a previous Pheu Thai government a decade ago to provide students and teachers nationwide with a tablet computer each to promote equal opportunity in education.
Concerns rise over 300k 'unreadable' ballots
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/05/2023
» Concerns are being raised over whether around 300,000 advance voting ballots can be delivered for a vote count on Sunday after Thailand Post said the envelopes containing these ballots are "unreadable" due to poor handwriting.
The green green grassing over of home
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 26/06/2022
» I am probably not alone in being a little surprised by the speed at which Thai authorities have performed a remarkable U-turn in their attitude to what is referred to variously as cannabis, marijuana, grass or, as it is most commonly known in Thailand, ganja. It wasn't long ago that the merest whiff of the weed would result in people being hauled off to the slammer.
Poster girl's poll pose
News, Mongkol Bangprapa and Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 07/11/2021
» The Pheu Thai Party sprang a surprise when it unveiled Paethongtan Shinawatra as the party's chief adviser on participation and innovation at a recent party assembly.
A political shot in the foot
News, Published on 23/10/2021
» The Pheu Thai Party has set its political compass toward the next election, which it bets could take place before the tenure of this government expires.
New virus, new vocab
News, Postbag, Published on 14/04/2020
» In the age of the coronavirus, few people will care, as I do, about the virus's impact on language. But despite its many negative effects (like, for instance, death), the virus has enriched our collective vocabulary.
Learning curve starts with language
News, Thana Boonlert & Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 27/01/2020
» 'Sawasdee krub," Australian Ambassador to Thailand Allan McKinnon greeted a Bangkok Post photographer in Thai as he entered the room at the Australian embassy on Wireless Road.