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Student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal said on Thursday that the reason he was disqualified from joining Amnesty International's Youth Board Member last year was partly because of an internal Thai police report which said he engaged in 'unsuitable behavior.Amnesty...

China has made big overtures to the region and the world in the last ten years, promoting both its giant infrastructure project (the Belt and Road Initiative) and its closely related development bank (the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank).In...

Thailand’s government said on Wednesday that it had discovered one new coronavirus infection bringing the total number of infected to 2,989.It is the second day in a row that the number of new infections was just one. The new...

“You are more American," a friend of mine once told me, "than some real Americans.”A preposterous proposition, I thought. Berkeley based I may be, but I am Bangkok born and bred. I had never set foot in the United...

Thailand's government on Friday asked its citizens not to travel home for this weekend's extended holiday after its decision to not postpone the four-day holiday backfired massively.Coronavirus infection rates had been lowering for the past two weeks with...

This week Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha asked the opposition to put politics aside and concentrate on helping the government contain the coronavirus pandemic.Now is not the time for politics or criticizing the government, the prime minister said, but...

While reading Thai Enquirer’s articles last week about donation culture, I thought back to a meme that I saw a couple months ago by @bougiebangkokgirl. The meme featured an Elmo with the label “bkk_person1” smushing its face into a pile of ทำบุญ (tum boon) while looking...

Thailand’s government passed an executive order late Wednesday mandating that all emergency decrees that it had enacted to be continued until the end of May.The executive order, published in the Royal Gazette and signed by Prime Minister Prayut...

“I am no longer living in fear of the outbreak, I am now living in fear of starvation,” said Waanna Thamsangwan, a food vendor from Samut Prakan. Waana was one of the many people who came to protest at the...

Thailand’s government said on Tuesday that it had discovered 7 new coronavirus infections bringing the total number of infected to 2,938.It is the second day in a row that new infection numbers have been in the single digits.There...