KHON KAEN – The voice on the radio is calm, its message anything but. “Civil war is going to happen,” says the announcer on a...
BANGKOK– They’re a common sight everywhere you go in Thailand: young women in white blouses and black skirts or young men in white dress shirts...
BANGKOK – Thai police have asked the operator of the popular “Line” instant messaging app for access to records of online chats, raising concerns about...
BANGKOK – The masked protesters are the latest development in an ongoing fight for political control Mim Putita, a student living in Bangkok, had never...
CHIANG RAI – Thai people are remarkably relaxed and easy going. Buddhist philosophy discourages ‘hot bloodedness’. Politeness is ingrained from birth and most Thai people...
BANGKOK – The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Geneva-based World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) urged the Court of Appeal to review the conviction...
BANGKOK – A Thai Video Vendor Akachai Hongkangwan has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison Thursday for selling video CDs of...
BANGKOK – The crimes that this law addresses can be divided along two lines. The first deals with conventional crimes committed online, like illegal access...
CHIANGRAI TIMES– For a piece of legislation designed to promote harmony, Thailand’s reconciliation bill has stirred up plenty of strife. Last week the opposition Democrat...
CHIANGRAI TIMES –Today and tomorrow we will hear the war drum beaten through the political landscape, although the masses don’t appear to be in the...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A group seeking amendment to the lese majeste law is stepping up its campaign following the death of an elderly man detained...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Friday she would not seek to change the country’s harsh royal defamation law despite outcry over...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The death of Ampon Tangnoppakul, better known as Ah Kong, once again has thrust Section 112 of the constitution into the public...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The sudden death of lese majeste jail convict Ampon Tangnoppakul, or Ah Kong, yesterday reignited heated criticism of the lese majeste law...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Chiranuch Premchaiporn, who faces up to 20 years in prison, denies allegations that she did not remove 10 online posts perceived as...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – BANGKOK – Thai authorities have blocked thousands of web pages deemed insulting to the monarchy in the past three months, police said...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The Yingluck Shinawatra government is not fully in charge of Thailand as the Army has a “veto” power over some key issues...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thailand is at an interesting period in its politics, both nationally and internationally. The country’s political and social history is likely to...
The Siam Samakkhi group has called on officials from the United Nations and the US government who made comments on the lese majeste laws to...
An activist was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for insulting Thailand’s king in the third case in a month involving the strict law...