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Culture minister praises late pope
News, Published on 24/04/2025
» The Ministry of Culture is inviting the public to express their condolences at the Apostolic Nunciature to Thailand until Saturday, following Pope Francis's death on Monday.
We should listen to the Global South on Gaza
News, Karishma Vaswani, Published on 23/03/2024
» There is a rising chorus of voices, mostly from the Global South, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the urgent provision of aid to a population that is facing imminent famine. Is anybody listening?
'Little ghosts' back to old tricks
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan & Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 03/05/2023
» The Royal Thai Police's Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division (ATPD) is stepping up efforts to investigate websites run by companies intent on duping Thais, known as "little ghosts", into working in South Korea illegally.
Govt urged to shield asylum seekers from deportation
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 02/04/2023
» Human Rights Watch (HRW) is urging the government to ensure the safety of 63 recently-detained Christian asylum seekers from China, fearing they may face persecution and torture if they are deported to their homeland.
BMA plots relocation
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 18/03/2023
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will spend about two years moving its headquarters from Sao Chingcha in Phra Nakhon district to its other office in Din Daeng district, ahead of promoting the inner city area as "People Square".
Kingdom to host Asian Bishops' meet this week
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/10/2022
» Thailand will host the 50th Federation of Asian Bishops' Conference (FABC) General Conference at the Baan Phu Waan Pastoral Centre in Nakhon Pathom's Sam Phran district from Oct 12–30.
Bangkok offers glimpse into the past
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 07/03/2022
» Stroll along the Chao Phraya River and visit the old quarter of the capital Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and you can see living proof of the harmonious mixture of Thai-Chinese and European cultures, which still carries a connection from ancient Ayutthaya to the modern Rattanakosin era.
Westerners leave mark on Ayutthaya
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 08/03/2021
» Westerners were prominent in Ayutthaya, the former capital of the kingdom of Siam, in centuries past. They left historical records, architecture, language and cultural links of their contact with Iudea, as it was known at the time. Today they help us understand the area's history and Thailand's policies on international relations.
Catholics pray for the return of tourists
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 24/11/2020
» Community leaders in the country's largest Catholics community are helping to revive a local tourism industry battered by Covid-19. The Tha Rae community has almost 13,000 Catholics and they live about 30 minutes away from Sakon Nakhon city in this northeastern province.
France's failings a lesson for Thailand
News, Editorial, Published on 15/11/2020
» Five years on after the Bataclan massacre, France is once again facing a resurgent Islamist threat. Over the past few months, three separate attacks have rocked the proud secular nation which champions freedom of expression: stabbings near the former office of political satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, the beheading of 47-year-old school teacher Samuel Paty, who showed his students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, and a knife attack in Nice.