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Somyot denied bail for 13th time
Somyot Prueksakasemsuk’s request for bail was dismissed by the Appeals Court on 25 Jan, said his wife Sukanya after she went to the Criminal Court on 4 Feb.The bail request was submitted to the court...
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Lèse majesté CD seller released
On 2 February, Sathian Rattanawong was released from Bangkok Remand Prison after serving a year and eleven months for selling CDs with lèse majesté content in 2011.He was greeted by about 20 people...
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More provinces should have right to elect own governors
Pravit Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation As much as Bangkok residents may relish the right to decide which Bangkok governor candidate to vote for early next month, the race has become a glaring reminder...
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Book review: Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in...
Craig J. Reynolds Craig J. Reynolds, a historian of Southeast Asia at the Australian National University, reviews Tyrell Haberkorn's book Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence...
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Reform brings a return of the cronies
Aung Din Myanmar has undergone dramatic changes since the newly installed quasi-civilian government took power in 2011. President Thein Sein admitted that the country is in bad shape in every sector...
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BURMA REVIEW 2013
Aung Din Burma in 20122012 was an important year for Burma, a Southeast Asia country with a population of approximately 60 million and also known as Myanmar, with significant and dramatic changes. The...
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A Conversation about the French Model of Politics and the Three Faces of FM...
Kasian Tejapira Ajarn Piyabutr Saengkanokkul made the observation that:"When we speak of French history, why is it that we only think about the French Revolution and the beheading and overthrow of the...
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Vote Early, Vote Often, Vote Brown
Harrison George Been a cracking couple of weeks for the Royal Thai Police. First they nab long-term fugitive from justice Somchai Khunploem, aka Kamnan Poh, godfather of the naughty bits of the east...
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Sri Lanka: Three Years On - No Progress into Abduction and Killing of Human...
FORUM-ASIA (Bangkok, 12 February 2013) - Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a regional human rights group representing 47 human rights organizations from 16 Asian countries...
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Japan's Defence Budget
Pavin Chachavalpongpun Japan’s Shinzo Abe administration had decided to raise the defence budget for the first time in 11 years. The government called for spending 4.68 trillion yen (US$52 billion) on...
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Case of Central World arson to be ruled in late March
The South Bangkok Criminal Court has scheduled 25 March to give its ruling on the Central World arson case during the political unrest on 19 May 2010.The remaining defendants in this case are Saichon...
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Warning! This Article Contains Multiple Warnings
Harrison George WARNING! This article has been written so as to conform to the restrictions on freedom of expression imposed by Thai law and its normal interpretation and practice.That should do...
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Academics appeal to House Speaker on amendment to lèse majesté law
Suluck Lamubol The Campaign Committee for the Amendment of Article 112 is to appeal to the House Speaker, Somsak Kiatsuranont, to review his decision to reject parliamentary consideration of the draft...
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The "NLA Sit-In" Trial of 10 Thai Human Rights Defenders
Human Rights Lawyers Association Since 21 February 2012, ten prominent Thai NGO/ labour union/ human rights activists have been on trial at the Criminal Court, Rachadapisek Road, Bangkok on serious...
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Media's narrow view of strife doesn't help
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation A dialogue with separatists may still be elusive after more than half a decade of violence but the least the public can do now is not to cling onto just one perspective...
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Making cities safe for women and girls
Michelle Bachelet, UN Women There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: This is not happening in my backyard.In 2012, two...
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Weighing the Truth
Harrison George And there I was thinking it was just uninventive students who believed that any amount of perspiration could disguise a complete and total lack of inspiration.A male student (the...
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Mass Politics and Reconciliation
Nidhi Eoseewong Regarding political conflict in Thailand, many years ago I proposed that the political system (relations of power) is unable to adapt and broaden itself to accept the expansion of a...
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Book review: Red Journeys: Inside the Thai Red-Shirt Movement
Craig J. Reynolds Claudio Sopranzetti, Red Journeys: Inside the Thai Red-Shirt Movement. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2012. xiv + 131pp.At the time he wrote this memoir, Claudio Sopranzetti was doing...
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Thailand – Criminal lawsuit lodged against human rights defender Mr Andy Hall
Front Line Defenders On 22 February 2013, human rights defender Mr Andy Hall was informed that a criminal lawsuit had been lodged against him, at Nakhon Prathom court on 14 February 2013. The case is...
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