Opinion

The demise of the SCALA saddens me so but also makes me reflect on how the cinema fading is a small symbol of failed success and opportunity in Thailand.You had the best airline in the world until, through...

No one could have predicted that it would happen this faster. When Carrie Lam tried to (unsuccessfully) pass her extradition law last year, we knew that this day would eventually come. But no one expected Beijing to force through...

“Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight. For the greatest tragedy of them all, is never to feel the burning light.” Words penned, supposedly, by Oscar Wilde, and ones that Thailand’s ruling party seems committed to heeding. Palang...

I have known Dr Weng Tojirakarn and his wife Arjarn Thida for more than a decade, he is not a violent man.In fact, he is one of the loudest voices among the Red Shirts leaders in calling for...

This week, seven small parties decided to back Mongkolkit Suksintaranont, leader of the Thai Civilized Party, for a cabinet positions. Why they chose to do so, I do not understand.If anything, the decision by the parties shows that...

“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...

Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, or Roong, as she is known among her friends, received a summons from the Royal Thai Police for her involvement in the demonstration calling attention to the disappearance of Wanchalerm Satsaksid on June 5th.The warrant stipulated...

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...

In Thailand, 58,903 people die from air pollution each year, according to a report by WHO.It is the result of social injustices, deeply interconnected and rooted from the profiteering of a few powerful people, and something that we can...