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NGO head checks up on Uyghur detainees
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 29/04/2025
» The People's Empowerment Foundation has expressed serious concerns over the plight of seven Uyghur people who are currently in jail in Thailand.
Last three Uyghurs 'resettled'
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 28/04/2025
» The remaining three Uyghurs held at Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Centre have been transferred for resettlement in a third country, effectively ending a diplomatic saga which spanned more than a decade.
Time to let Afghan women lead
News, Palwasha Hassan & Shafiqa Khpalwak, Published on 10/03/2025
» This year's International Women's Day is marked by a sense of foreboding, even despair. Progress on women's rights and representation is stalling: the number of women in parliaments grew last year at the lowest rate in a generation, and the global financing gap for gender initiatives remains wide. At a time of widespread democratic backsliding -- and with US President Donald Trump freezing foreign aid, including for gender initiatives -- the prospects for improvement appear bleak.
Department of Corrections refutes detained Uyghurs' alleged letters calling for help
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/03/2025
» The Department of Corrections (DoC) has dismissed claims by an opposition MP that Uyghurs detained in Klongprem Prison sent letters opposing deportation to China.
Bridging the needs of communities
News, Regan Pairojmahakij, Published on 30/10/2024
» The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Conference of Parties (COP) in Cali, Colombia, COP16, provides an opportunity to move closer to achieving the world's biodiversity conservation goals. From Oct 21 to this Friday, this year's CBD COP follows both the UN Climate Change and Desertification COPs as the last in a triad of "super" COP events taking place in close succession. It follows from the watershed CBD COP15, where the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted.
Thailand recharges Myanmar policy
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 18/06/2024
» At his first press briefing on Friday, Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa spoke at length about Thai foreign policy under his stewardship. He covered the whole gamut of revitalised diplomatic paths the country is on and will be making in a 43-slide PowerPoint presentation.
Reflections from a career in foreign relations
News, Kasit Piromya, Published on 09/10/2023
» As the world continues to become closer through advancements in transportation and communication, we are unfortunately living in a time where many countries' leaders, politicians and citizens are increasingly looking to insulate their countries from those seeking safety and security.
Civilians, not military, 'should lead talks in South'
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 19/06/2023
» Peace efforts in the far South should be taken out of the military's hands and left to civilians and politicians to direct, according to Kannavee Suebsang, the FAIR Party's secretary-general and only MP-elect.
Uighurs' plight a lesson for govt
News, Editorial, Published on 09/04/2023
» The case of 63 members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church who were arrested for overstaying visas in Pattaya last week brings back memories of the notorious repatriation of another group of Uighur refugees back to China in 2014.
PTTGC embraces cleaner commerce drive
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 29/09/2022
» PTT Global Chemical Plc (PTTGC) says it is responding to the global community's demand for clean products and services.