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Acting the Fool
Harrison George The extraordinary spectacle of crime re-enactment in Thailand has a new star. Former Chamberlain of the Royal Household Bureau Montri Sotangkur, who worked for the erstwhile Royal...
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Experts: Thailand will be aged before becoming rich
Yiamyut Sutthichaya Economic experts said Thailand needs human capital development to catch up with new global economic trends. On Thursday, the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS)...
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3 Dao Din Khon Kaen student activists arrested
The police have detained three student activists from the Dao Din group of Khon Kaen University, interrupting their plan to show moral support to seven other group members wanted by the police....
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Lѐse majesté laws used to stifle press freedom in Thailand
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses strong concern for the banning of an event at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Thailand...
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Thai police inspects southern journalist for links with anti-junta student...
The police in southern Thailand inspected a freelance journalist about his political stands, asking whether he is linked with embattled anti-junta student activists in Thailand’s northeast and the Deep...
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Downgrading of military’s aviation management sets off alarms
John Draper The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on Thursday 18th June "red flagged" Thailand over major safety concerns within the country's aviation system due to its failure to...
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83 years of democracy sabotage in Thailand
Free Thais for Human Rights and Democracy June 24 marks 83 years since absolute monarchy was ended in Thailand, by a prodemocracy revolution. However during the last 83 years, democracy has not been...
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Interview: Anti-Death Penalty Asian Network on the death penalty in ASEAN
Kongpob Areerat Although as many as two thirds of all countries worldwide have already abolished the death penalty, many countries in Asia still maintain it for serious criminal offenses. According to...
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Thai teacher worshipping ceremony questioned for indoctrinating inequality.
As the teacher worshipping season approaches in Thailand, a group of Thai students led by renowned student activist Netiwit has proposed new ways of paying respect to teachers to replace the...
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About 1.6% of employees in Thailand are union members
Only about 600,000 employees out of 37 million people employed in Thailand, or about 1.6 per cent of Thai employees, are union members, a survey shows. According to statistics released by the Labour...
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Thammasat University stands on decision to reject transgender lecturer
A leading university in Thailand has turned down an appeal from an embattled transgender lecturer, who was denied a lecturer position for her prominent role as an LGBT activist.Kath Khangpiboon, 28, a...
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Declaration from the 7 Dao Din students facing charges for breaching NCPO...
Dao Din The reason we have chosen to come to Loei, is because we know that we will definitely be arrested by the authorities. Loei is the community where the 7 of us first learnt about the impact of...
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Tom Dundee: French-educated country singer-turned-lèse majesté prisoner
Metta Wongwat Thanat Thanawatcharanon aka Tom Dundee was recognized as a celebrity for more than a decade before he disappeared from the media. Recently he re-appeared after being accused of defaming...
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Activist facing charge for comemorating coup released on bail
The military court has granted bail to a student activist arrested on the first anniversary of the military coup last month after the police accsed him of defying the junta’s order. Eight other...
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Human rights organizations urge Thai junta to drop charges against student...
Thai and foreign human rights organizations issued statements, urging the junta to drop all charges against Dao Din, the anti-coup student activists from northeastern province of Khon Kaen.On Monday,...
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Thailand: UN committee slams abuse of lèse-majesté laws
International Federation for Human Rights Paris, 23 June 2015: Thailand should amend Article 112 of the Criminal Code (lèse-majesté), the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)...
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Police arrest student activist in hospital
The police on Wednesday morning arrested Natchacha Kongudom, a transgender student activist, after she was admitted to hospital. Natchacha, 21, is one of the eight students wanted on an arrest warrant...
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83rd anniversary of Thai democracy celebrated under military regime
Rachata Thongruay About 20 people gathered to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the so-called ‘Siamese Revolution’, at the Royal Plaza, Bangkok, under the close watch of plainclothes officers. At...
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Case-embattled activist Sombat Boonngam-anong can’t even sell rice
Metta Wongwat Sombat Boonngam-anong, aka Nuling or the Polka Dot Editor, has been all over the news during the past month since he has been forced to take his brand of bagged rice, Polka Dot Rice, off...
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Anti-coup student activists await arrests at police station
14 student activists wanted on arrest warrants for political activities have gathered in front of a police station in Bangkok, while a student activist arrested this morning will be released on bail....
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