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6 Feb 2009
In the just concluded Asia Pacific Editors' Roundtable on Inequality and Hunger organised by the UNDP in Colombo, Sri Lanka, this writer told the gathering that Thailand has no challenge when it comes to hunger because the Thai media is generally uninterested and oblivious to the issue.
3 Feb 2009
For most of last year, news from Thailand was dominated by the yellow-shirted protest movement calling itself the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). It helped drive two prime ministers from office. But since December, the PAD has disappeared from the scene. The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok has been finding out what happened to it.
1 Feb 2009
Nirmal Ghosh witnesses a pro-democracy rally calling for fresh elections.
29 Jan 2009
Thai human rights defenders couldn't be more divided over the three years since the advent of the anti-Thaksin Shinawatra People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). The price to be paid for this divide only gets higher too.
29 Jan 2009
Prime Minister's Office Minister Sathit Wongnongtoey on Wednesday said the government will take action against community radio stations that have been found violating the law.
27 Jan 2009
The crackdown on lèse majesté is intensifying as politics becomes polarised around the monarchy, says Sinfah Tunsarawuth
23 Jan 2009
Your group met with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva recently to express concerns about the growing number of blocked websites. What was his reaction?
23 Jan 2009
Thailand's draconian lese-majesty law is a blunt instrument that Thais can too easily turn on foreigners – and each other
23 Jan 2009
When Abhisit Vejjajiva slipped through the back door and into the prime minister’s seat in Thailand late last year, exiled democracy advocates from Burma welcomed him. Over a week after reports broke of the Thai navy forcing boatloads of people from Burma back into the ocean to die, they should be thinking again.
22 Jan 2009
"Grand reconciliation," said Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva last week to foreign journalists at a FCCT dinner talk on how he plans to end the on-going political polarisation.
22 Jan 2009
Thailand's drastic use of lèse-majesté laws is damaging the monarchy and freedom
20 Jan 2009
Lawyers for Australian author, Harry Nicolaides, will lodge an application for a Royal Pardon this week after the Melbourne man was sentenced to three years' jail for insulting the Royal family.

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