Opinion

Of all his speeches since the very first rally, human rights lawyer Anon Numpha has never incited any violence but rather has demanded that his supporters and friends follow a path of peace.He asked simply and peaceufully for...

The Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper the Apple Daily published an editorial this week arguing that Donald Trump must be reelected as the free world depends on his confrontational stance with China. (Read here)You might remember that the owner...

The government is running out of good people to work with.The hostile takeover of the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) by General Prawit Wongsuwan is beginning to backfire.Replacing an economic tsar like the former Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak was...

At the height of Zhang Yimou's great masterpiece To Live, the cultural revolution is well underway. Academics and professionals are being hounded and hunted by Mao Zedong's Red Guards, who are mostly comprised of school and university children taking...

Hundreds of thousands of Thai netizens on Tuesday used the hashtag #แบนไอดอลคนไทยในเกาหลี (ban Thai idols in South Korea) to boycott the famous Thai k-pop idols in Thailand for not speaking up about the pro-democracy movement happening in their home...

Today, August 31, Chulalongkorn University is scheduled to demolish the Chao Mae Tubtim Shrine to make way for a condominium and mixed-use development.The shrine is considered to be a sacred shrine for the Taecheow Chinese community that once...

Yingluck Shinawatra, the former prime minister of Thailand, said that she knew a coup d'état was imminent when the Constitutional Court dismissed her 15 days before the tanks rolled in.By May 22, 2014, she was powerless and could not...

It was late in the afternoon on May 22, 2014, the tanks were rolling down the streets in front of the Victory Monument. This was the day that the junta seized power.Television channels were used to announce the coup...

Looking back, the 2017 constitutional referendum is something that will baffle me forever. More than 100 politicians, activists, journalists, and supporters of the No campaign were arrested before the vote because the junta wanted to shut them up, and effectively,...

When Yingluck fled the country, there was an online campaign to find her son since he did not leave the country with her.I cannot remember what the excuse for that witch hunt is, but it was easy enough to find him at...