• OPINION

  Censoring free speech, caging bright minds

  News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 23/02/2016

  » Free speech may be a luxury in a society under a military regime. But for university students yearning to make their political voices heard, free speech may indeed become a struggle as experienced by a group of university students during the traditional 71st Chulalongkorn University-Thammasat University football match at the National Stadium two weeks ago.

• OPINION

  The big squeeze: media profits versus ethics

  News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 22/03/2016

  » The character assassination of Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda, a famous news show host and media mogul, earlier this month after he was convicted by the Criminal Court for bribery and malfeasance may have seemed far-fetched for an otherwise ethically-lukewarm Thai society.

• OPINION

  Charter draft puts media freedom at risk

  News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 18/01/2016

  » It has been a precarious time for rights and freedom in Thailand, particularly the right to communicate and freedom of the press, since the May 2014 coup. But in light of revelations made last week by the coup maker-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), our communication rights may indeed be hanging by a thread.

• OPINION

  Thai PBS and the test of a public service TV

  News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 26/01/2016

  » Thais like to blow their own trumpet about many things -- the only country in Southeast Asia not to have been colonised, Bangkok as the capital with the most number of Facebook users, and Siam Paragon as the place with the most Instagram uploads. In 2009 a few Thais started bragging about the first public service television in Southeast Asia, the Thai Public Broadcasting Service or Thai PBS. But now is probably not the time to gloat about this, more than ever.

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