The Culture Blog

Dillon Pienaar knew that there was a spreading virus in Asia and Europe but at the time his home country of South Africa only had five Covid-19 cases; less than Thailand, less than China and less than parts of...

The Environmental Justice Foundation is teaming up with local villagers throughout Thailand to recycle and reuse old discarded fishing nets to ease pollution in the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea.According to the EJF, 640,000 tons of...

Thailand has had 13 successful coups (and many more coup attempts) since the start of the 20th century. More than enough for multiple lifetimes.Since there has been so many, we decided to hand out grades to all of...

When the Ministry of Education officially launched its online distance learning channel (DLTV) on Monday, the internet was not happy.Under the new trending hashtag #เรียนออนไลน์ (#onlinelearning), many took to social media to express their frustrations over the overall quality,...

The red shirt protests of 2010 was a watershed event in the recent political history of Thailand. Many young political leaders in Thailand today were old enough to remember the events but not old enough to have participated in...

“Thailand needs to heal.”Those were the words that I clearly remember one of my teachers saying, 10 years ago after the end of the red shirt protest, leaving death, destruction, and a fragmented society in its wake.Being...

Let me be clear.I am against all kinds of coups.Both military, and judiciary.I was a university student back then. During the night of the crackdown on May 19, I was in Ayutthaya because my house in Pathum Thani...

“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society” – Ralph Waldo EmersonMy 16th birthday landed on the day the protests officially began. But to be completely honest, I...

I was only 13 when April and May 2010 happened, I barely had political consciousness then.“Most of the political voices of our generation were still playing Pokemon,” as one Twitter commentator put it. But I remember the entire...

The red shirt protests of 2010 was my first real assignment. After an uneventful internship in the Middle East and various freelance jobs, stringing for multinational news organizations during the red shirt protests gave me exposure to real...