Bangkok Informer

The Bangkok Post has translated into English an interview that Constitution Court president Wasan Soipisudh said in an interview with Post Today. Some key excerpts: ‘I cannot see the future for the country unless it can develop much further than at present. Thai people mostly don’t understand their own duties, don’t respect other people’s opinions. Democracy [...]

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The Bangkok Post: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) are ramping up efforts to boost cyber security, with one expert describing the security situation in Thailand as a “crisis”. … Maj Gen Bunjerd Tientongdee, a deputy director of the MoD’s department of Defence Information and Space Technology, said [...]

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Despite so much excitement in the run-up to the inception of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, experts and activists on human rights and democracy are ambivalent about what AEC’s repercussions will be on human rights and democracy. Full News here – NationMultimedia.com – Politics

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The 3rd Army Region Commander Lt. Gen. Wanthip Wongwai being interviewed by the press   Chiangrai Times – The Foreign Ministry recently visited the northern border in ChiangRai to check on a request from the business sector about opening up a couple of border passes linking Thailand with Myanmar’s Shan State. The argument is that [...]

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