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Thai junta to censor media causing “hatred toward monarchy”
Thai junta has set up working groups to monitor all media channels and will censor media that spread information which lead to “hatred toward the monarchy,” and false information. Police General Adul...
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Pheu Thai Denies Links to Anti-Coup Group in Exile
Khaosod English reported on Tuesday that the ruling Phue Thai party of the former government has denied any link with the anti-coup group founded in exile by its former leader. Chawalit...
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I am thankful to the coup, and here is why...
Paisarn Likhitpreechakul Article 30 of the 2007 Thai constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. The official statement of intention clarifies that this includes discrimination on the...
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Poetry: “Dreams afloat”
Wad Rawee unofficial translation by Nicha RakpanichmaneeOn the commemoration of June 24, 1932 revolution Legs, the legs they took, and promised to walk for me.Arms under your grip. Trust us, you...
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Roundup: International responses towards Thai situation
The Thai malaise has garnered varied responses from the international community. Arguably, this heterogeneity stems from deep rooted ideological differences amongst different regional blocs. This...
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Military orders newsroom not to report anti-coup movement
Military officers directly ordered a newspaper not to publish a story on an anti-coup group, according to a Vice-President of the Thai Journalist Association (TJA). On Tuesday 24 June, military...
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Chula lecturers boycott graduation ceremony as anti-election PDRC leader...
Two Chulalongkorn University lecturers have declared that they will not participate in the university graduation ceremony as Chitpas Kridakorn, an anti-government leader, has been selected as the...
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Roundup: human rights violations after the coup
Since the coup d’état on 22 May, Thais have lived with their freedoms and liberties limited. Eating sandwiches and reading George Orwell’s 1984 in public have become crimes. Imitating the Hunger...
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An open letter from Chulalongkorn MBA student on the graduation ceremony...
Matthew Fong To the CU Community: I am a student of Chulalongkorn University’s Sasin MBA '12 and will be graduating on July 3rd. I am disappointed to hear that Chitpas Kridakorn will be representing...
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Police: Anti-American Protest not violate Martial Law
Khaosod English reported on Sunday: While anti-coup protests are strictly forbidden under Thailand's military regime, anti-American protests are perfectly legal, says a senior police...
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Soldiers force squid vendor to take off red t-shirt, citing rifts prevention
Five soldiers in Chiang Mai province forced a squid vendor to remove his red t-shirt screened with a face of the red shirt leader Chatuporn Prompan, citing the intention to reconcile and end political...
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Is the Thai junta opting for the Burmese censorship model?
Reporters Without Borders Thailand’s military junta, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), announced on 25 June that it is creating panels to control media content and to prevent the media...
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Police to summon ‘sandwich protest’ student activists for attitude adjustment
Deputy National Police Chief Somyot Phumphanmuang is to summon the student activists who ate “anti-coup sandwiches” in front of the US Embassy on Tuesday, and send them to the military for “attitude...
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Home and Away
Harrison George The Thai government must know how Luis Suárez feels. Not in the sense of sympathy or feeling sorry for the millionaire delinquent, but on the lines of empathy, suffering in the same...
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When truth is missing from the land of (pretended) smiles
Thaweeporn Kummetha On Thai television, Thailand seems very normal and Thais seem to be happy under the coup d’état. There is very little resistance and Thais seem to have adapted very quickly to the...
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Red-shirt activist Sombat released after acknowledge lese majeste charges in...
Sombat Boonngam-anong, a high profile anti-coup and red-shirt activist, has been released from custody after an interrogation at a police station at the North East Roi province related to lese majeste...
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[Infographic] Peaceful and normal actions forbidden under junta regime
Over a month under the junta government, Thais have tried various ways to express their approval against the coup. On the first couple of days after the coup, the movement started as a traditional...
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Relying on language to mist over the truth
Pravit Rojanaphruk One of the junta's main tools at present is not using guns and tanks, but relying on the power of language. The power seizure on May 22 was not a coup, but a "military...
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Right-wing media publishes "parody piece" describing gang-rape of anti-coup...
Khaosod English reported Tuesday: The ultra-nationalist Thai newspape ASTV Manager has published a "mock column" describing in graphic detail of how prisoners will gang-rape a fugitive anti-coup LGBT...
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Thai court delivers 1st verdict for anti-coup protester
A Thai court on Thursday morning sentenced an anti-coup protester to two months in jail and a fine of 6,000 baht, but since the defendant pleaded guilty, the jail term was suspended. Weerayuth...
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