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Closed-door lèse majesté trial in Pattani
Suluck Lamubol In a rare case in Thailand's deep south, Pattani Provincial Court is proceeding with an in camera lèse majesté trial against a Malayu Muslim man, who is accused of putting up banners...
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Groping in One’s Genes
Harrison George Laboratories in Europe are racking up inordinate amounts of overtime as they test more and more samples of ‘beef’ products. A small percentage turn out to contain something else, the...
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Vote result reveals a divided nation
Pravit Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation Sunday's Bangkok gubernatorial election was more a referendum on Thaksin Shinawatra and what happened in April-May 2010 in Bangkok and beyond, than a normal local...
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Court accepts Prachatai’s case against authorities for blocking its website...
Prachatai’s case against the authorities for blocking its website during the red-shirt protests in 2010 has finally been accepted by the Civil Court, after the Court’s initial decision to dismiss the...
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Sukhumbhand Versus Pongsapat
Pavin Chachavalpongpun The Bangkok gubernatorial election was held last weekend and ended with a great fanfare. The incumbent governor, Sukhumbhand Paribatra, from the opposition Democrat Party,...
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Uncommon Sense
Harrison George The Bangkok Post Sunday columnist Voranai Vanijaka has a reputation for being fearless and forthright. Which perhaps says more about the pusillanimous pap in the rest of the Post than...
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Up in Smoke
Harrison George The Scene: The Election Strategy and Excuses Section of the Democratic Party’s Central Planning Committee. A younger member is enthusiastically expounding his latest Great Idea.No,...
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Debate on monarchy taken off the air
Thai PBS television channel decided to cancel the broadcast of the last programme of its talk show series discussing the issue of constitutional monarchy, after a group of about 20 ‘Thai patriots’...
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Ultra royalists' threats forced Thai PBS to stop airing 'Tob Jote'
Pravit Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation Censorship was blatantly at work for all to see at Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS) last Friday night when it abruptly cancelled the promised airing of...
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THAILAND: Nine years without justice for Somchai Neelaphaijit
Asian Human Rights Commission On March 12, 2013, the ninth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Somchai Neelaphaijit passed. The Asian Human Rights Commission chooses to note this anniversary...
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Academics suggest ideological change for more democratic courts
Suluck Lamubol Academics from the Nitirat (Enlightened Jurists) group and well-known scholars are calling for whole scale reform of the courts, from legal texts to ideologies, to achieve a judicial...
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Thailand uproar over talk show pullout
Southeast Asian Press Alliance A pioneering initiative to discuss the sensitive issue of the Thai monarchy on public television hit a snag when an episode of the political talk show was abruptly...
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Thaksin in Dawei
Dawei Watch Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra left Dawei this early morning to Hong Kong by his private jet, an airport authority told Dawei Watch. A group of businessmen believed to...
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BURMA: President too quick to proclaim state of emergency
Asian Human Rights Commission The Asian Human Rights Commission has been following with concern news of the latest outbreak of communal violence in Burma. Although the circumstances of how the...
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An Ignorance to End All Ignorance
Harrison George That’s it with Thai schooling, isn’t it? ‘A Peace to End All Peace’, David Fromkin’s magisterial account of how the modern Middle East was created from the breakdown of the Ottoman...
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Dawei project: clear sky for a few, dark cloud for many
Luntharimar Longcharoen The media has recently reported that the sky is now clear over Dawei for the Italian-Thai Development Company (ITD), the developer of the Dawei deep seaport and industrial...
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Response to Vietnamese newspaper’s criticism of 2013 Netizen Prize
Reporters Without Borders In an article published online on 14 March, the Vietnamese daily Nhan Dancriticized the fact that the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Netizen Prize was awarded to the...
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Court acquits two red shirts in Central World arson case
On 25 March, South Bangkok Criminal Court acquitted Saichon Phaebua and Phinit Channarong in the case of the Central World arson in 2010, citing benefit of the doubt.The court, however, sentenced...
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CD seller convicted for lèse majesté
On 28 March, the Criminal Court sentenced Ekkachai Hongkangwan to 5 years in prison for selling CDs containing an Australian television documentary and copies of WikiLeaks documents, but reduced the...
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Three year sentence for selling CDs defaming monarchy
Suluck Lamubol March 28, 2012 - The court today sentenced 38-year-old Ekkachai Hongkangwan five years in prison term and fine of 100,000 baht for selling documentary CDs produced by Australian...
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