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“Nothing is so firmly believed,” the skeptic Michel de Montaigne once wrote, “as that which we least know.” A fitting corollary to be added could be that nothing is so confidently tweeted as that which we least understand.It is the...

“I had no desire to change from one king to many – which is a democratic system but only its outer husk.” Pridi Panomyong wrote in 1933, “I am focused on the important point: ‘improve the well-being of the people’.”Protests...

Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan accepted, on Monday, the nomination to be the leader of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party. His ascension to the party's highest post will pull back the loosely held curtain that had been in place...

Adam Smith once thought that more trade would mean less war. So did Kant. Liberals (in the classical sense of the word) believed that increasing economic interdependence would provide incentives to avoid war and encourage cooperation rather than conflict....

Four special branch police officers stood outside Bunkueanun Paothong's house in Nakhon Sawan asking his mother if they could speak to him. They said the matter was urgent. They wanted to stop Bunkueanun from getting in legal trouble, they...

Last week, the voters of Kaohsiung, Taiwan voted to throw out their mayor. The disgraced politician, Han Kuo-yu, had just earlier this year been on the presidential ballot. Now he has the dubious honour of being the first local...

Phayao Akhad’s hands were shaking with nerves as she dialled her daughter's number. But after what felt like an eternity of anxious ringing, a man answered on the other end of the line instead of her eldest child, Kamolkade.“Hello?”...

Students, worshipers and caretakers of the Chao Mae Tub Tum Shrine gathered to protest against the removal of the shrine by Chulalongkorn University's Property Management Office on Monday with protesters say they plan on continuing protests to stop any...

Ford Tattep, a youth activist and alumni of Chulalongkorn University’s faculty of Political Science, was charged by police for violating the Emergency Decree for joining a protest demanding justice for victims of enforced disappearance.A post on an activist Facebook...

King Vajiralongkorn has instructed the Thai government not to use Section 112 of the Thai Criminal Code, or the lèse-majesté law, to prosecute civilians, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha said on Monday.“You can see that today that we have not been...