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Something is rotten in the state of anti-corruption
Harrison George The Thai Health Promotion Foundation has fallen foul of the anti-corruption vigilantes, who claim that the Foundation has been supporting all sorts of activities that are beyond its...
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Buddhist authority to defrock monks with ‘inappropriate’ online behaviors
Thailand’s Buddhist religious authority has announced a policy to defrock monks who post ‘inappropriate’ messages and other online contents on social media.Chayapol Pongsida, the Deputy Director of the...
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Meeting HRH Princess Sirindhorn at the Heart of the Military Complex
John Draper On November 16, HRH Princess Sirindhorn visited the 2015 CRMA Exhibition at the spiritual heart of the Thai military - Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy. For those who have never been...
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Drug trafficking suspect might die from torture: Cross Cultural Foundation
A human rights civil society organisation urges the Thai authorities to carry out an ‘independent’ investigation into the mysterious death of a drug trafficking suspect died in custody.On Tuesday, 17...
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Military summons Pheu Thai spokesman for criticising Army Royal Park graft
The Thai military have summoned a Pheu Thai Party member for a talk after he criticised the military’s Royal Park corruption scandal.According Matichon Online, Daily News, and Prachachat Turakij, the...
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Defiant academic summoned after calling for academic freedom
The Thai authorities have summoned to a police station an academic who urged the junta not to intervene in academic freedom.According to Midnight University, a virtual university for free public...
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Officers collect DNA of 5-month-old baby in Deep South raid
Security officers in the restive Deep South collected DNA samples of a five-month-old child believed to be the son of a fugitive suspect in a 2012 Hat Yai bombing. According to Wartani, a local media...
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Opinions of human rights organizations on the summons of academics for...
On 11 November 2015, Changpuak police station, Chiang Mai, issued summons for a group of six academics from various universities. The summon order accused the group of holding or participating in a...
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UN Human Rights Office calls for Thailand to stop civilian detentions in...
OHCHR BANGKOK (24 November 2015) – The United Nations Human Rights Office for South-East Asia (OHCHR) calls for the immediate closure of a Bangkok military detention facility where two inmates died...
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Broadcasting law used by junta to control media, experts say
Media experts have pointed out that the military regime uses the 2008 broadcasting law and a broadcasting regulatory agency as a media control apparatus. According to iLaw, the Office of the National...
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Lecturers deny charges of defying junta’s ban on gatherings
Embattled lecturers accused by the military of violating the junta’s ban on political gatherings have denied the charges, saying different ideas are crucial for Thai society.At about 2:30 pm on...
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Prem Calls for “Optimum Benefits” from Military Budget
John Draper The Bangkok Post’s front page lead story from 24 November, 2015, highlighted a speech given the previous day by General Prem Tinsulanonda, Thailand’s elder statesman, President of the...
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Still better than Thaksin?
Prasit Wongtibun As the latest corruption scandal shows, the Thai junta hasn’t rid the country of dodgy politicians; it’s simply taken their place.Anti-corruption has been a poster child of...
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Thammasat lecturer jailed for placing funeral wreath in front of court
The Appeal Court has sentenced a lecturer from a leading university to a month in jail for criticising and defaming the court.According to Matichon Online, the Court of Appeal on Thursday, 26 November...
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Anti-monarchy figures overseas allegedly involved in plot to kill junta leader
The Thai police allege that suspects in a failed terrorist plot around the Bike for Dad event involve certain unnamed overseas anti-monarchy figures. On 27 November 2015, the Thai News Agency...
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Workers abuse is rampant in Thailand’s chicken meat industry
Swedwatch Thailand is a prominent world supplier of poultry meat products. During the last couple of decades the nation’s domestic production has experienced several booms, as the poultry industry has...
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Agricultural groups voice concerns over GMO bill
Wasu Vipoosanapat Agricultural groups have sparked concerns over a newly approved Biological Safety Bill, saying it will have a highly detrimental impact on Thailand’s food security through widespread...
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Updated: Red shirt leaders blocked by military from entering army’s royal park
Update: Voice TV reported on Monday at 9:46 am that many police and military officers were deployed at Mahachai Muang Mai Market in Samut Sakhon Province where Jatuporn, Nattawut, and other UDD members...
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Thailand’s nonviolent activists and the struggle for democracy
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri On May 22, 2014, Thailand witnessed its 12th military coup. Its backdrop is a decade of colour-coded conflict that has pitted traditional feudal elites (dubbed ‘Yellow Shirts’)...
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Thai state agencies likely to get away with Xayaburi Dam construction
Administrative Court officials have said that Thai governmental agencies accused of failing to safeguard the public interest by giving the green light to the construction of a controversial...
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