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'Game changers' headline city summit
News, Published on 26/01/2026
» Bangkok will host a landmark financial summit, "The Game Changer: Outlook 2026 & Beyond," scheduled for Feb 3-4 at The Glasshouse, Nai Lert Park.
Marriage equality brings joy
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 02/07/2024
» Same-sex couples have been expressing joy since the passage of Thailand's Marriage Equality Bill in the Senate two weeks ago.
Prinn dodges charge of molestation
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 15/12/2023
» The Criminal Court yesterday acquitted Prinn Panitchpakdi, a former deputy leader of the Democrat Party, in a case in which he was accused of committing an indecent act on a 17-year-old girl in 2018 due to the statute of limitations having expired.
Prinn gets jail for sex with minor
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 26/09/2023
» The Bangkok South Criminal Court sentenced former deputy Democrat Party leader Prinn Panitchpakdi to two years in jail for sexually assaulting an underaged girl while throwing out another similar case on Monday.
Time to act on conflict's impact
News, Helen Clark & Supachai Panitchpakdi, Published on 16/11/2022
» It is now nearly nine months since Russia invaded Ukraine. A war that should never have happened, and which Moscow hoped would be over in a matter of days, threatens to drag on endlessly. Estimates of military and civilian deaths vary wildly but are in the tens of thousands on each side. Over thirteen million Ukrainians have been displaced, about half of them across Europe and the other half internally. There has been inestimable damage to infrastructure and property. The approaching winter threatens to multiply misery many times over. As if the human suffering already experienced is not enough, the nightmarish spectre of the use of nuclear weapons lurks in the background.
Sad decline of the Democrat Party
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 31/10/2022
» What is happening to Thailand's oldest party, the Democrat Party, under the leadership of Jurin Laksanawisit?
Losing ground quite literally
News, Published on 08/10/2022
» The strength of a political party may be gauged by how secure its "home turf" is in the face of competition and in the case of the Democrat Party, the South has proven far from impregnable.
Parties told to vet members more strictly
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 15/07/2022
» A network of civil groups on Thursday stepped up calls for political parties to tighten the potential election candidate screening process after a Move Forward Party (MFP) Bangkok city councillor became embroiled in a sex scandal.
Public unity 'key', says capital's new governor
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/05/2022
» Bangkok governor-elect Chadchart Sittipunt wants city residents to band together in making the capital liveable again.
Tool of injustice
News, Postbag, Published on 22/05/2022
» Re: "Nate probe a let-down", (Editorial, May 19).