Restrictions on political parties’ campaigning raises questions of how free and fair will much-postponed poll be
Social media campaigning will be heavily restricted in the upcoming Thai election, in a move political parties claim will gag freedom of expression and directly affect younger (...)
The EU has been accused of sending out the wrong message after removing Thailand from a list of countries failing to tackle illegal fishing.
Campaigners claim that the European commission’s decision this week to lift Thailand’s “yellow card”, in place since April 2015, gives consumers an “illusion (...)
International news magazine The Economist, which has covered the Thai monarchy better and more bravely than any other mainstream media organisation, has a new article about King Vajiralongkorn.
It makes a very important point that other media tend to be too afraid to say — real power in (...)
New song taps in to pent up anger over corruption and nepotism under country’s ruling junta
In a sweaty Bangkok basement over the weekend, hundreds of young Thais, hands in the air, roared angrily along with a rap song being performed on stage. “My country points a gun at your throat,” they (...)
Thailand: Election Countdown Begins
Lift Restrictions on Fundamental Rights to Enable Free and Fair Elections
(New York) – Thailand’s military junta should immediately lift restrictions on civil and political rights so that upcoming national elections can be free and fair, Human Rights Watch (...)
Press release: Thai women’s group oppose Thailand joining CP-TPP
Chiang Mai, Thailand
The Thai Department of Trade Negotiations on 4th September held the second public hearing on the Comprehensive Progressive-Trans Pacific Partnership (CP-TPP), which the Thai government expressed interest to (...)
The boys had applied for citizenship before they became trapped in the cave in northern Thailand last month
Three of the young soccer players who were trapped in a cave in northern Thailand for almost three weeks were granted Thai citizenship on Wednesday.
Their coach, Ekapol Chanthawong, 25, (...)
As Thailand’s military dictator, Prime Minister and former General Prayut Chan-o-cha visited Europe last week in a desperate attempt to woo more foreign investment, Thai democracy rights protesters rallied in Paris, London and Bonn, calling for his arrest for crimes against his own people. They (...)
The junta has ordered seven of the most prominent pro-democracy activists charged with crimes including sedition after they launched a protest campaign calling for general elections to be held in November.
From left, an unidentified protest photographer, Rangsiman Rome, Nutta Mahattana and (...)
The Royal Thai Army is conducting a programme to educate kindergarten children to be patriotic through the junta’s controversial nationalistic 12 Thai Values.
On 21 December 2016, Lt Col Phansak Phraewphanit, Commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 29 Army Regiment in Kanchanaburi (...)
Political parties, despite their divergent ideologies, are united in urging the junta to lift its ban on political activity now that the Organic Act on Political Parties is in effect. Meanwhile, the junta head has announced that the next general election will be held in November 2018.
On 8 (...)
PRAYUTH SAYS GOV’T RIGHT TO TAKE YINGLUCK ASSETS BEFORE VERDICT
BANGKOK — Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said Thursday his government was right to confiscate the bank accounts of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra as it was a separate matter than her malfeasance trial, which has yet to (...)
Controversy is mounting over the unexplained disappearance of democracy from Thailand.
Democracy has traditionally been located in the various Thai constitutions, but observers noted recently that the new constitution seems to have no democracy in it. It has been replaced by long-winded (...)
Thailand’s parliament has agreed in a confidential session to transfer control of royal agencies from the government to new King Maha Vajiralongkorn, members of the military-appointed legislature said on Friday.
The decision came on Thursday in a sitting that was not broadcast in public, they (...)
On a Saturday night in mid-September 2013 I was sat at table in a deserted restaurant in an exclusive beachside resort in Phuket. My companions were graduate students and researchers from Chulalongkorn University and Japan’s prestigious Kyoto University.
It was the final day of a small (...)
After almost three years in power and billions of baht spent in drafting the new constitution , the 20th Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand was officially enacted on 6 April 2017. Thailand has gone through 19 constitutions in less than a century and there is no guarantee that the latest (...)
On April 6, 2017, the new constitution of Thailand is officially promulgated. Thailand’s king, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, officially endorsed and signed the new constitution in front of the executive, legislative and judiciary branches at the Ananta Samakom Throne Hall in Bangkok. The document (...)
Since the death of King Bhumibol on October 13 2016, his son King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun or Rama X has disregarded the provisions of the Thai constitution and its conventions to an extent unprecedented in the modern history of the nation.
First, he declined to accede to (...)
New regulations on political parties have sparked debate over whether these will make parties more responsive to voters, or whether they will kill off many of Thailand’s current parties.
On 7 December 2016, the Constitution Drafting Committee published the first draft of the Organic Act on (...)
We the “People Go Network Forum” comprised of villagers, community based organizations, peasants, academia, nongovernmental organizations, labors, media, students, the self-employed from 109 organizations are here to review the situations in Thailand in the aftermath of the coup, especially the (...)
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