People and Government

DNA Links Mekong Corpse to Monarchy Foe: Family

The son of one of three missing republicans said Monday that police have concluded that a mutilated body found in the Mekong River was his father.The man, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was contacted Monday by the Institute of Forensic Science after ...

Rapid growth of digital one-stop services planned

The government expects to provide digital one-stop services 4.0 from 300 government agencies within the next five years.Sak Segkhoonthod, president of the Digital Government Development Agency (DGA), said government agencies nationwide are transforming themselves for digital governance. This is under the Digital Government Framework 2019-24, ...

Jirapan Boonnoon

Thailand moves to ease plight of asylum-seekers’ & refugees’ children

Seven Thailand government agencies have today (Jan 21) inked an agreement that will allow the children of refugees and asylum seekers to be freed from Immigration Detention Centres (IDC).The Memorandum of Understanding on the Determination of Measures and Approaches Alternative to Detention of Children in ...

John Le Fevre

Amended Land Traffic Act through NLA’s first reading

The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) has accepted in principle an amendment of the Land Traffic Act in its first reading, with 157 lawmakers voting in favor, none against, and two abstaining. Keep reading ...

Thammarat Thadaphrom

Domestic violence reports soar in 2019

Just over two weeks after the new year began, reports of domestic violence doubled from the rate of the same period last year. However, rights advocates say agencies in charge of handling the problem are slow to react and tend to view it as merely ...

Penchan Charoensuthipan

China’s belt-and-road plans are to be welcomed—and worried about

Shunning all false modesty, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, calls his idea the “project of the century”. The country’s fawning media hail it as a gift of “Chinese wisdom” to the world’s development. As for the real meaning of the clumsy metaphor to describe it—the Belt ...

Big talk but little action on Rohingya

While Asean has shown its willingness and readiness to help solve the Rohingya crisis and ensure the safe return of thousands of refugees, the situation in Rakhine state is not safe enough for stakeholders to get to work, Foreign Minister Don Pramuwinai said on Friday. ...

Supalak Ganjanakhundee

Asean foreign ministers to focus on a win-win Indo-Pacific strategy

Asean foreign ministers will seek to find a common Indo-Pacific strategy during their informal meeting in Chiang Mai today (Jan, 18) to deal with the changing geopolitical situation.Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and her Thai counterpart Don Pramudwinai, who had met before the New Year, ...

Supalak Ganjanakhundee

'Time to start talking about consent': Thailand's nascent #MeToo moment

n a small bookshop in Suan Phlu, a lively district of Bangkok, an unusual conversation is taking place. Men and women crammed into the nooks and crannies between the books listen intently as Wipaphan Wongsawang picks up a microphone and gestures around her. “Women in ...

Thailand’s wealth inequality is the highest in the world: What will this mean for the upcoming elections?

Thailand now has the largest wealth gap in the world, according to a recent report by Credit Suisse. The Global Wealth Report and Databook, published in December 2018, showed that the richest 1% in Thailand now controls almost 67% of the country’s wealth.Actors across the ...

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