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Bhumjaithai win bodes well for conservatives
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth and Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 11/02/2026
» The outcome of Thailand's latest general election has prompted intense debate among political analysts, with many concluding that the decisive victory of the Bhumjaithai Party (BJT) represents a triumph of the conservative camp reinforced by rising nationalist sentiment and the strategic consolidation of local political power bases, or ban yai (influential political clans).
'Big Joke's' fall from power
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 31/01/2026
» From deputy police chief to a man facing arrest warrants, the downfall of Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn has become one of the country's most dramatic policing sagas.
When repressive states choose terror over death
News, Alan Clements, Published on 23/01/2026
» Fyodor Dostoevsky -- one of the few writers to survive state terror and return with a psychology sharp enough to indict it.
Drug network assets seized
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 31/12/2025
» The Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) yesterday ordered the temporary seizure of an additional 20 million baht in assets connected to the "Black Mirror TKP" drug trafficking and money laundering network, whose financial transactions were traced to a former People's Party (PP) Bangkok constituency candidate.
Jimmy Lai, the HK tycoon who stood up to China
News, James Pomfret & Jessie Pang, Published on 17/12/2025
» Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media mogul and China critic, was found guilty on Monday on two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one count of sedition under a China-imposed national security law that could see him jailed for life.
Police hail nationwide drug busts
News, Online Reporters, Published on 03/12/2025
» Thai narcotics police on Wednesday announced a number of successful recent operations that led to the arrests of numerous suspects, including Thais and foreigners, involved in major drug networks.
Big-name fraud wave shocks
News, Wassayos Ngamkham and Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 02/12/2025
» The intensified campaign to expose wrongdoing within the police force, led by former deputy national police chief Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn and Atchariya Ruangratanapong, president of the Crime Victims Assistance Club, has become a major point of public interest.
'Call-centre cop' faces the axe
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 29/10/2025
» Bangkok police commanders have ordered the dismissal of a senior officer from Don Muang police station after he was arrested for alleged involvement in a call-centre scam network that duped victims into investing in a fake online stock-trading platform.
Prince Group faces probe
News, Wassayos Ngamkham and Wichit Chanthanusornsiri, Published on 18/10/2025
» Thai authorities have launched a probe into a transnational scam network linked to Chen Zhi, the British-Cambodian businessman behind Prince Holding Group (Prince Group).
When societies rise, fall, and face catastrophe
News, Antara Haldar, Published on 11/10/2025
» When the United Nations emerged from the rubble of two world wars 80 years ago, it represented humanity's most ambitious attempt ever to turn catastrophe into cooperation. But while the scarred world of 1945 had hope following the Allied victory, that optimism has since curdled. The UN today is underfunded, risk-averse, and paralysed.