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Activists' fate awaits action
News, Editorial, Published on 02/09/2024
» Last Friday marked International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Unlike in the past, the return of a Shinawatra family member to Government House has rekindled hope the new prime minister will help locate political activists -- many of whom were affiliated with the red-shirt movement -- who disappeared in neighbouring countries like Cambodia and Laos.
Woman begs cops to find activist husband's body
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/12/2020
» The wife of Surachai Danwattananusorn, a 77-year-old activist who disappeared in 2018 and is presumed dead, has asked that police intensify their efforts to find his body and return it to the family for a funeral.
Four cases yield huge drugs haul
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 20/11/2020
» Large hauls of illicit drugs, including millions of methamphetamine pills and more than 800kg of crystal meth, were seized in four separate cases, the Narcotics Suppression Bureau has revealed. Details on the seizures were announced at the bureau's headquarters in Bangkok on Thursday.
House set to quiz MFA over Wanchalearm
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 12/06/2020
» The House committee on law, justice, and human rights will next Wednesday ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to clarify its actions regarding the disappearance of Thai activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit, who was abducted near his apartment in Phnom Penh last week.
Petition filed in missing activist case
News, Post Reporters, Published on 09/06/2020
» Pressure is mounting on the Thai and Cambodian governments to investigate the disappearance of pro-democracy activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit who reportedly went missing in Phnom Penh last week.
Don't forget 'disappeared'
News, Editorial, Published on 21/12/2019
» One year ago this month, Thai activist Surachai Danwattananusorn disappeared mysteriously from his residence in the Lao capital of Vientiane, while the bodies of his two aides were found in the Mekong River. Also, seven years ago this month, Lao activist Sombath Somphone suffered a "forced disappearance" in Vientiane.
Green fingers point to a healthier future for Chiang Rai's hill tribe kids
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 01/09/2019
» CHIANG RAI: Waking up early for school is difficult for most kids but not this 13-year-old ethnic Akha girl. Mallika Sae-lee, a 6th-grade student at Ban Ruam Jai School in tambon Pa Tung of Mae Chan district of Chiang Rai, arrives early every day to take care of a vegetable patch before her school's morning recitation of the national anthem.
Solve Mekong killings case
News, Editorial, Published on 25/01/2019
» The disappearance of 78-year-old political activist Surachai Danwattananusorn, also known as Surachai Saedan, and the killing of his two close aides, who had been living in exile in Laos, need not go down in history as unsolved and unexplained mysteries.
Tycoon turns up for poaching charges
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/03/2018
» After missing two appointments with police, construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta finally turned up at Thong Pha Phum police station in Kanchanaburi yesterday to answer multiple charges related to poaching at Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary.
Police captain rapped over tycoon's animal cruelty charge
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 02/03/2018
» A police captain in Kanchanaburi province has been put on probation for accepting a complaint of cruelty to animals, later withdrawn, against construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta, who is accused of illegally hunting endangered animals in a World Heritage forest last month.