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A new study to be published in the Economic History Review shows that Thai women as far back as the 19th century were capable landowners and their right to their land was often protected by the courts when disputes...

2020 sure feels like a series of punches straight to the gut. The months of lockdown has seen the death toll of COVID-19 soar to hundreds of thousands worldwide; some who were fortunate enough to not die of the...

The swans are housed in a glass exhibit at the Kamphaengphet National Museum in Kamphaengphet Province. The two swans, Hong in Thai or Hongsa as they are known in Mon, are facing eastward, almost ready to take flight.The...

It’s been half a year since the first signs of COVID-19 surfaced. It has taken away hundreds of thousands of lives and destroyed the livelihood of millions, but we’re finally beginning to recover.But as the pandemic slowly and...

The hashtag #ก็ผมหนูปะคะ or “but it’s my hair” went viral on Twitter as Thai students were outraged over guidelines rolled out by the Ministry of Education, allowing for schools to dictate whether students will still have to follow grooming regulations....

The Argentinians have a word for it. Los Desparecidos. Translated to English, it simply means the disappeared. During the height of the Videla dictatorship in Argentina, at least 6,000 people (up to 30,000 by some estimates) were 'disappeared' by...

A online seminar to launch the Thai translation of the book ‘Men Explain Things to Me’ will take place this Saturday, June 6.The panel will be chaired by Petch Pongsuratham and feature former Future Forward MP Panika Wanich,...

As the world's most persecuted minority group, having faced exile and genocide at the hands of the Myanmar government, Rohingya communal leaders told The Siamese Satirist on Thursday they were baffled by the support of Thai elites for the...

Applications to hold a commemoration event on the anniversary of Tiananmen massacre outside the Chinese Embassy was stopped by Thai police, organizers told Thai Enquirer on Tuesday.The application, for ten people to hold a candlelight vigil to remember...

Thailand's government decided on Monday to disband the country's highest anti-corruption body after a ruling on Saturday which found Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan not guilty of corruption for possessing several luxury watches worth over US$1 million.In the...