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Thailand's Toothless Human Rights Commission
Pokpong Lawansiri Three years later, there is still no report on the April-May 2010 violenceDuring the administration of the then-Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the National Human Rights...
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Australian Scholars' Letter on Sombath Somphone
A group of Australian scholars has sent a letter to the Australian Government to voice their concerns about the Lao activist who has disappeared since December last year and call on the government, as...
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Myanmar's Reform Challenges: Implications for Development Research
A Public Forum on "Myanmar's Reform Challenges: Implications for Development Research" organized by the Institute of Security and International Studies on 30 May at Chulalongkorn University. 000...
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Perfection and Sanctuary
Brian Knight How do you realize your country of birth is not perfect? It goes like this: I was born and raised here. This is my country. This is my cathedral. And then one day, for one reason or...
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Somyot’s wife submits letter on press freedom to World Newspaper Association
Takata Mitsunaga (6 June 2013) Sukanya Prueksakasemsuk, the wife of magazine editor Somyot who is serving an 11 year jail sentence, submitted an open letter from her husband to Jacob Mathew, outgoing...
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Cyber soldiers promote the monarchy
Rangers Task Force 45, in response to Army policy, has put its troops to the task of promoting and protecting the monarchy in cyber space, claiming to have posted 1.69 million comments on webboards and...
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A Hairy Tale
Harrison George So the Thai education system has earned itself some international publicity of the exactly the kind the Ministry of Education doesn’t want.Thomas Fuller of the New York Times got...
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Lost for words in Japan
Pavin Chachavalpongpun Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra paid an official visit to Japan from 22-25 May. As Thailand’s first female premier, Yingluck did not just exploit her charm to win over...
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THAILAND: Justice denied in the case of the murder of Charoen Wat-aksorn
Asian Human Rights Commission On 21 June 2004, Charoen Wat-aksorn was assassinated as he alighted from a bus returning to Prachuab Khiri Khan after he gave testimony about environmental destruction in...
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Can the Spread of the Internet Bridge Social Gaps?
Takato Mitsunaga Increased access to the internet in Thailand can bridge the social gap between rural people and townspeople, experts said at INET Bangkok 2013, at the Queen Sirikit National...
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Want the truth about Thailand? Look abroad
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation While things appear calm on the surface, one revealing fact about the ongoing debate about the role of the monarchy surfaced last week when Prachatai.com online...
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Contemporary World
Brian Knight Andrew MacGregor Marshall recently commented, including the clause, “…what is going on in contemporary Thailand.” It was a good citation to the upheaval taking place at various levels in...
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Failing the Test of Testing
Harrison George Chulalongkorn University has sleepwalked its way into an unfortunate muddle. Five final-year students have just discovered that they failed a first-year course and should no longer be...
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20 minutes between the iron bars
Sukanya Pruksakasemsuk Prison visit to Somyot on 27 June 2013Thursday mornings at 08.30 am are when Somyot and I have a regular weekly visit. Iron bars and secure windows keep us apart but can’t...
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Dirty Politics behind Devastating Haze
Pavin Chachavalpongpun The choking haze has revisited Southeast Asia in the past weeks. Impressive skyscrapers in Singapore and Malaysia have been cloaked by haze, a type of pollution which has...
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Same-Sex Marriage: Don't be in a Hurry
Takato Mitsunaga The reception held at the US Ambassador’s Residence on June 26 to honour Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month fully supported LGBT rights and same-sex marriage. During...
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Court denies bail for Wikileaks cables’ seller convicted of lèse majesté
The Supreme Court on Monday denied bail to Ekachai Hongkangwan, a 35-year-old man convicted of lèse majesté for selling copies Wikileaks cables and an ABC news documentary on Thailand’s monarchy,...
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Conflict arises over land ownership of Dr.Cynthia’s Clinic
Suluck Lamubol Public concern has arisen after the land donated to Dr. Cynthia Maung for her charitable Mae Tao Clinic in Tak Province near the Thai-Burmese border was reportedly transferred to a...
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The War on Error
Harrison George The story is that Somebody Who Shall Be Nameless spread the word that whistleblower Edward Snowden had escaped the transit lounge of Sheremetyevo Airport on board the air force jet...
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Royal pardon for red shirt webmaster convicted of lèse majesté
Thantawut Thaweewarodomkul, former webmaster of Red Shirt USA, who was sentenced to 13 years for lèse majesté, was granted a royal pardon and released from Bangkok Remand Prison on Friday, after...
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