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Wraps come off Thaksin's luxury room
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/05/2025
» 'Truth can never be concealed or suppressed forever, although it can be distorted temporarily. But sooner or later, it will emerge," according to an old saying.
Farewell Wanchai, a friend and colleague
Roger Crutchley, Published on 08/12/2024
» I was deeply saddened to hear that my good friend and colleague Wanchai Rujawongsanti passed away earlier this week at the young age of 61 after losing a battle with cancer. I worked with him on the sports desk at the Bangkok Post for two decades and it was a time I will always cherish.
Nasty legacy of Thaksin prison drama
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/01/2024
» The buck stops at the Corrections Department. Or, in other words, stops in the lap of Sahakarn Petchnarin, the department's new director-general who assumed the hot seat last October.
Tips on staying calm
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/07/2023
» Re: "Chadchart urges fire drill revamp", (BP, June 25).
The next NK summit will be costly
News, Eli Lake, Published on 07/02/2019
» To hear US President Donald Trump tell it, his diplomatic gamble with North Korea is already paying dividends. In his State of the Union address, he announced that his next summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would take place in Vietnam at the end of the month.
Hope for refugee children
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 28/01/2019
» The cause of children's rights got a lift last week when immigration police in Thailand announced that they would stop holding migrant and refugee children in the country's crowded immigration detention facilities.
Torture law must pass
News, Editorial, Published on 17/12/2018
» This week the junta-appointed National Legislative Assembly (NLA) will begin winding up business for the year. On the schedule for Thursday is the reading of a bill that is long overdue. If passed -- and it must -- it will officially bar government and security forces from using torture and enforced disappearance. It is shocking, this far into the 21st century, that a civilised nation has never prohibited these odious practices.
Egregious whistles
News, Postbag, Published on 13/10/2018
» Re: "Keeping the noise down", (Opinion, Oct 12).
Time to stop the torture
News, Editorial, Published on 25/04/2018
» Two horror stories from the justice system point once again the urgent need for intervention and reform. Two men are dead in separate incidents. Corrections officials admit that a prisoner in the Samut Prakan Central Prison was horrifically beaten in a "discipline session" shortly before his death was reported. In Buri Ram, meanwhile, a man arrested for poaching -- and denied bail -- died from what medical examiners said were spleen injuries and "massive" blood loss.
Too connected to fail?
Alan Dawson, Published on 11/02/2018
» Sia Prem and three friends went out hunting for a new, black leopard throw rug and all we got was this disgusting news story.