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Will MoU referendum open Pandora's Box?
News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 06/10/2025
» The long-standing border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia has resurfaced in public debate following Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's announcement that his government plans to hold a national referendum, likely alongside the next election, to ask voters whether Thailand should revoke or retain two key bilateral agreements -- MoU 43 (on land boundaries) and MOU 44 (on overlapping maritime zones).
Opposition presses for improved border-clash compensation
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/08/2025
» The main opposition People's Party on Thursday plans to question the government about improving compensation for residents affected by recent clashes along the Thai-Cambodian border.
Plea to give Karen a say in Kaeng Krachan forest
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 30/08/2021
» Environmental conservation must go hand in hand with the protection of local indigenous communities' rights in Thailand's newly inscribed natural World Heritage site, the Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex, experts say.
Follow the tiger
News, William Hicks, Published on 02/11/2020
» Covid-19's impact on the world has been worse than any terrorist act or natural disaster over the last century. But as the global community furiously seeks a vaccine and continues to spend billions of dollars on economic recovery, the Chairman of Thailand-based B.Grimm company, Harald Link, draws attention to what he thinks is a better, lasting, and less expensive cure: nature protection.
Soldier hurt in gunfight with loggers
News, Post Reporters, Published on 30/10/2020
» A soldier was injured during a shootout between park rangers and illegal loggers in Si Sa Ket.
Why violence persists in our forests
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/06/2019
» In the corridors of power, as female politicians in opposite camps were wrangling over what-you-should-wear for their first day in the parliament, some 350 kilometres from Bangkok, 61-year-old peasant Sinuan Pasang was thrown into jail for trying to protect her land.
End of a sorry saga for mushroom pickers
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 19/05/2019
» The best news of the week is that the mushroom-picking couple have been released from jail following a royal pardon by His Majesty the King. It is a most pleasant surprise and hopefully puts an end to a grim nine-year saga that reeked of social injustice from the very first time it surfaced back in 2010.
Mushroom-pickers freed
News, Published on 17/05/2019
» A mushroom-picking couple has been released from prison on a royal pardon by His Majesty the King.
Vaccine crisis looms
News, Postbag, Published on 29/07/2018
» Those who live in Chiang Mai might find it a little strange that, during the past few days, Chinese tourists in large numbers have gathered at the city's various hospitals -- waiting for themselves and their children to be vaccinated against certain diseases.
Wisdom of late King
News, Postbag, Published on 18/06/2018
» Re: "National strategy panel set up", (BP, June 16).