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Anti-monarchist “Rose London” bullied 3rd time by Thai royalists
A Thai woman took video clip of her visit to a house in suburb London where anti-Thai monarchist Chatwadee Amornpat aka “Rose” reportedly used to reside, and gave her a present, presumably stools....
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2014 coup and the Deep South Crisis: Interview with Sunai Phasuk
Separatist violence has plagued Thailand’s Deep South for over a decade, resulting in an approximate toll of 6000 deaths and 11,000 casualties since the Muslim separatist insurgency reignited in 2004....
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Dying for Justice
Harrison George Well you can’t argue facts with an Imam, can you? There’s no need to worry about crime in Saudi Arabia, he said, and he’s been there. Women don’t go in fear of rape because they have...
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N.E. student released after 4 days
The military on Monday evening released Nanthapong Bunpong, a student activist from Mahasarakham University in northeastern Maha Sarakham Province, after detaining him for four days. This was the...
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Junta steps back its media control policy
After the junta last Friday issued Order No. 97, prohibiting media from criticizing the junta and that any media outlet dare to criticize the junta would be shut down, on Monday night the junta’s...
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A Call to Remember: 6 years of Da Torpedo behind bars for lèse majesté
Metta Wongwat This story was published on Prachatai in Thai on Monday and the original can be read here. Today (Tuesday) is both the six-year anniversary of the arrest of Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul,...
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Amnesty for coup makers in interim charter
HM the King on Tuesday granted an audience to Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, the leader of the junta’ s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), and endorsed the interim constitution, presented by the...
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NE villagers urge junta to allow participation in mining conflic
Villagers from northeastern Loei Province have urged the military junta to allow villagers' participation in solving a conflict with a mine operator after the military junta intervened and tried to...
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National Identity Crisis &‘Thainess’ – III
Frank G Anderson In 2012 I wrote the first two of a series of Thainess articles (1- National Identity Crisis and Thainess-I) (2-National Identity Crisis and Thainess - II) in a still-developing series...
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Squirrel dies after being packed in parcel
As e-commerce on social networks is now growing rapidly in Thailand, the state mail carrier, Thailand Post, has been the main delivery service for small-scale Thai merchants because it offers a...
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Army evicts villagers in Isaan, claiming to preserve forest
It has been almost a month since over a thousand villagers in a forested area of northeastern Buriram Province were evicted from Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary, where hundreds of families have been...
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Military coup facilitates economic growth: Economists
Economists have expressed positive sentiments towards economic growth in Thailand after the military intervention. They lauded the military’s swift clamp down on corruption and recalibrated focus on...
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Lèse majesté prisoners denied bail
Kem Issara The fate of lèse majesté detainees under the junta is perhaps not much different than under past democratic governments -- unwarranted lengthy detention without bail remains the order of...
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Ex-Pheu Thai MP charged with lèse majesté
Thai Criminal Court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Apiwan Wiriyachai, former deputy House speaker, Pheu Thai MP and red-shirt figure, after the police charged him with lèse majesté. Apiwan...
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2014 Interim Charter to re-engineer Thai political landscape
After the 2007 Constitution was torn up two months ago, Thailand was presented with an Interim Charter with 48 articles on 22 July 2014. The significance of the charter is that it allows the...
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Arrest warrants issued for gunmen who shot dead the red-shirt poet
The police has issued an arrest warrant for two men allegedly killing Kamol Duangphasuk, or known by his poet name Mainueng K. Kunthee, a prominent red shirt activist. On 23 April afternoon, the poet...
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A note on the 'helps' we can provide for the people in a conflict area
Hara Shintaro I'm frequently asked by my friends who are outside the conflict area of the Southern Border Provinces of Thailand or Patani on what they can do in order to help us. Those who are working...
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Thailand: Interim Constitution Provides Sweeping Powers
Human Rights Watch The Thai military junta should amend the interim constitution it unilaterally promulgated that gives it sweeping powers without accountability or safeguards against human rights...
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Junta threatens right-wing media “ASTV-Manager”
The junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) on Saturday reprimanded ASTV-Manager Weekly magazine for discrediting the junta. The NCPO’s Order No. 108 stated that the magazine issue 253,...
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Why I did not report myself
Thantawut Taweewarodomkul “I have no regrets, at all, that I decided not to report myself to the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).” Even though many people told me to reconsider, I remain...
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