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NHRC calls for better guidelines on refugee care
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/10/2025
» The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC) has urged state agencies to establish clear guidelines for the treatment of refugee cardholders residing in Thailand.
Peace in deep South demands more than guns
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 04/10/2025
» The southern insurgency has been a conundrum for all governments.
Stars align for Yingluck's return
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/12/2024
» The prospect of fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra returning home to celebrate the Songkran festival in mid-April is not just wishful thinking by her brother Thaksin, given developments concerning a few key players in the infamous rice-pledging scheme and the Corrections Department's move to draft regulations pertaining to detentions outside prison.
Protesting ethically for the planet
News, Peter Singer & Martin Skladany, Published on 05/09/2024
» Climate protesters have disrupted the tennis at Wimbledon, thrown tomato soup at the glass protecting famous paintings, sprayed orange powder on Stonehenge, and blocked traffic. In response, European governments have been cracking down on environmental protesters with detentions and fines, and, in one case, with a five-year prison sentence for advocating civil disobedience in a Zoom call.
One middleman enough in conflict
News, Asmadee Bueheng, Published on 24/10/2022
» Yahree Dueloh left his village in the southernmost border district of Narathiwat a decade ago, crossed the Kolok River and settled in Rantau Panjang on the Malaysian side of the border, not far from the river that serves as the official border between the two countries.
Power grab brings nation to standstill
News, Larry Jagan, Published on 02/02/2021
» Myanmar's military has seized control of the country after detaining de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other politicians in a pre-dawn raid yesterday morning. There have been massive detentions in this military round up: all key politicians, the regional chief ministers, the top leadership of the governing National League for Democracy (NLD), most national and local members of parliament, and hundreds of pro-democracy and human rights activists. Little is known about their whereabouts at present, though it appears that the Lady -- as she is known -- is under house arrest. But there are widespread fears about her continued safety and the other detainees.
Navy officers 'faked' drug evidence
News, Post Reporters, Published on 26/01/2021
» Help Crime Victim Club chairman Achariya Ruangrattanapon yesterday filed a police complaint against 16 naval officers accusing them of fabricating narcotics evidence for rewards.
Change tack in far South
News, Editorial, Published on 09/11/2019
» The government and army's responses to this week's deadly attack at a civil defence volunteer checkpoint in Yala province in the deep South are deeply worrying, largely because of their insistence on sticking with numerous failed and questionable means of tackling violence in the restive region.
Human rights defenders face risk of 'jail, death'
News, Dave Kendall, Published on 01/06/2019
» Repression is rampant in Thailand and across Asia, and human rights defenders face harassment, jail and even death, according to a new report by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia).
Security law relaxed in district
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/11/2018
» A government panel in charge of security in the deep South has agreed to replace the emergency law with a more lenient internal security legislation to govern Sukhurin district of Narathiwat, said a senior security officer.