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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6931" target="_blank"><h3>‘A better future than this’: a conversation with the love of Pai Dao Din</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6931" target="_blank">"That week I could visit him only once. Pai asked me if I had changed my mind about him. He said like he is a prisoner already but he said I’m still young and still have a better future than this."
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6929" target="_blank"><h3>Pruay, Refugee and Director of Democracy After Death</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6929" target="_blank">In October 2016, there was a minor news report that at an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of 6 October 1976 and coincidentally the 10th anniversary of the 2006 coup, a film named Democracy After Death: The Tragedy of Uncle Nuamthong Praiwan was shown with no real marketing. After that showing, there does not appear to have been any screenings or distribution anywhere else. There were only rumours that the organizing committee was warned by security officials that some of the film’s content might constitute a violation of the lèse-majesté law.
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6923" target="_blank"><h3>Uniformed and Uninformed </h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6923" target="_blank">Chulalongkorn (we have murals of Hitler as a superhero) University is back in the news and you don’t whether to laugh or cry.
Its Faculty of Engineering seems to have spawned its own little Hitlers who are going round seizing the cards of any student not in uniform. And even if you’re in uniform but not the correct one. The blue smock required in workshops is OK if you’re in the workshop, but step outside still wearing it and you’ll get nicked.</a></div>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6936" target="_blank"><h3>Junta’s police reform just vague promise</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6936" target="_blank">News of police scapegoating innocent victims has inspired public calls for police reform. But amidst announcements by the junta that it will push ahead with planned reforms to the police force, some believe the initiatives will only increase the regime’s grip over the nation’s law enforcers.
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<span class="field-content">Kongpob Areerat</span>
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<span class="field-content">21 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6929" target="_blank"><h3>Pruay, Refugee and Director of Democracy After Death</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6929" target="_blank">In October 2016, there was a minor news report that at an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of 6 October 1976 and coincidentally the 10th anniversary of the 2006 coup, a film named Democracy After Death: The Tragedy of Uncle Nuamthong Praiwan was shown with no real marketing. After that showing, there does not appear to have been any screenings or distribution anywhere else. There were only rumours that the organizing committee was warned by security officials that some of the film’s content might constitute a violation of the lèse-majesté law.
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<span class="field-content">16 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6816" target="_blank"><h3>Romantic relationships impossible for disabled women? (Part 2)</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6816" target="_blank">“We talked by phone. My little brother talked for me, I didn’t talk to her myself (laughs). After more than a week, I went to pick her up to live with me, and then I proposed to her. I can’t really pinpoint why she’s so nice. I like her for how hard-working she is, waking up early to do housework and taking care of the kids. When I took her to my uncle for him to look her over, he said I could have her if I want. Before, I took many girls for my uncle to look at but he said this one got up late, or was too lazy to wash the dishes. Once the meal was over they hid the dirty dishes. Lazy. But Sim is hard-working. She gets up to do laundry at 4 and 5 am. Uncle sneaked in to watch her.”
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<span class="field-content">2 Jan 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6811" target="_blank"><h3>Prachatai’s Person of the Year 2016: Naritsarawan Keawnopparat </h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6811" target="_blank">She would not let the death of her uncle be forgotten as insignificant and has braved legal, physical and psychological threats in her fight against military-backed torture. Prachatai introduces Naritsarawan ‘May’ Keawnopparat, our Person of the Year 2016.
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<span class="field-content">28 Dec 2016</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6931" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/32077028793_ac11b8510b.jpg" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6931" target="_blank"><h3>‘A better future than this’: a conversation with the love of Pai Dao Din</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6931" target="_blank">"That week I could visit him only once. Pai asked me if I had changed my mind about him. He said like he is a prisoner already but he said I’m still young and still have a better future than this."
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<span class="field-content">Taweesak Kerdpoka</span>
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<span class="field-content">17 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6692" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/1415794269_0de73de215_z.jpg" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6692" target="_blank"><h3>The politics of wording in the Deep South: Romadon Panjor </h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6692" target="_blank">Romadon Panjor, editor of the Deep South Watch website, presented his Master’s Degree thesis at the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, on how the Thai state has created a large number of terms over the past 12 years’ of violence in the Deep South that obfuscate the political intentions of the Patani liberation movement and deters international intervention. On the other hand, the insurgency has also created terms that Thais have never heard before and that challenge the mainstream Thai discourse.
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<span class="field-content">Thaweeporn Kummetha</span>
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<span class="field-content">3 Nov 2016</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6672" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/14825634_10206189773061723_1302199422_n_0.jpg" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6672" target="_blank"><h3>Thailand’s witch-hunting culture explained by sociologist</h3></a></span>
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Recent ‘witch hunts’ as Thailand mourns its late King are the consequence of hyper-royalism, a culture of impunity and political polarisation, says a Thai sociologist. He speculates the hunts will last until celebrations for the new throne are completed.
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<span class="field-content">Kornkritch Somjittranukit</span>
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<span class="field-content">26 Oct 2016</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6627" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/Bolger.jpg" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6627" target="_blank"><h3>Interview with former New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6627" target="_blank">On his visit to Thailand during the 60th Anniversary year of Thai-New Zealand diplomatic relations, the Right Honorable Jim Bolger, Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1990 to 1997, granted the following interview to Prachatai, facilitated by the Project for a Social Democracy. The interview covers development in Khon Kaen, Thai-New Zealand relations, the AEC and aid, cultural rights promotion, the TPP, corruption, the state of Thai politics, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the Deep South.
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<span class="field-content">John Draper</span>
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<span class="field-content">7 Oct 2016</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="/english/node/6754">New Computer Crimes Bill explained by infographics</a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6754" title="New Computer Crimes Bill explained by infographics" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/600x300/intro_picture/en1.png" alt="" title="" width="600" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-600x300 imagecache-default imagecache-600x300_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="/english/multimedia/5980">The embattled community of Pom Mahakan</a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6944" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/201702221716293-20070201100444.jpg" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6944" target="_blank"><h3>Dhammakaya monks stage hunger strike urging junta to stop harassment</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6944" target="_blank">Monks and worshippers of the Dhammakaya sect have staged a protest against orders from the junta for the arrest of their spiritual leader, after authorities blocked them from entering the temple.
On 22 February 2017, Ai Petthong, representative of the Dhamakaya’s followers, told media that the authorities have prohibited over a thousand of worshipers from going inside Dhammakaya temple.
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<span class="field-content">22 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6943" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/32880383182_80f6110775.jpg" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6943" target="_blank"><h3>Villagers intimidated by military file complaint to NHRC</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6943" target="_blank">Villagers from southern Thailand have filed a complaint to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), claiming that they were harassed by the military for a campaign against dam construction.
On 21 February 2017, 30 villagers from Tha Sae District in the southern province of Chumphon submitted a complaint to the NHRC office in Bangkok after they were intimidated by the military for protesting against Tha Sae Dam Project.</a></div>
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<span class="field-content">22 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6942" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/29468836835_a12d0b6ea3.jpg" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6942" target="_blank"><h3>Junta to purge Pattaya of prostitution</h3></a></span>
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In response to a recent report that labels Pattaya as the “world’s sex capital”, the junta head has announced a crackdown on prostitution.
On 21 February 2017, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the Prime Minister and junta head, announced that he will order the police to uproot Pattaya’s sex industry.
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<span class="field-content">22 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6941" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/31795263582_9cd8b103b6_c%208.55.04%20AM.jpg" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6941" target="_blank"><h3>Court refuses to release Pai Dao Din once again </h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6941" target="_blank">A provincial court has once again refused to release an anti-junta student activist accused of lèse majesté, even though several renowned Thai academics have volunteered to act as guarantors for his release.
At 11:20 am on 22 February 2017, the Provincial Court of Khon Kaen denied bail valued at 700,000 baht for Jatuphat ‘Pai’ Boonpattararaksa, a law student and key member of the New Democracy Movement (NDM).</a></div>
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<span class="field-content">22 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6934" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/prayuth.reporters-696x427.gif" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6934" target="_blank"><h3>Thai media as problematic as junta’s media bill</h3></a></span>
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Although the junta’s controversial new media bill has triggered outrage, human rights advocates point out that the Thai media should have been protesting the junta’s censorship regulations long ago.
On 16 February 2017, at a seminar “Media (Non)Protection Bill: Freedom under Government Budget”, Suchada Chakpisuth observed that public opposition against the junta’s Media Protection Bill has been weak compared to the junta’s previous proposed laws.
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<span class="field-content">20 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6899" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/705866_0_1467781015.jpg" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6899" target="_blank"><h3>Thailand-Laos extradition treaty: an attempt to bypass the law? </h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6899" target="_blank">Thai authorities have requested Lao PDR to extradite a group of five to six Thais for producing radio programmes deemed defamatory to the Thai Monarchy, even though this would be forbidden under the extradition treaty.
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<span class="field-content">3 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6893" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/Screenshot-from-2016-09-15-160653-e1473950403319.png" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6893" target="_blank"><h3>For those who died trying: enforced disappearances in Thailand</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6893" target="_blank">
A photographer has travelled across Thailand to document suppressed stories of enforced disappearances and the country’s culture of impunity.
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<span class="field-content">Kornkritch Somjittranukit</span>
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<span class="field-content">1 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6849" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/13400687685_f481cb7ce8_o.jpg" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6849" target="_blank"><h3>Freedom as jail: lives of uncertainty for Thailand’s ex-prisoners</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6849" target="_blank">Despite Thailand’s famously appalling prison conditions, some ex-prisoners are preferring reimprisonment over the challenge of reintegrating into society.
The punitive slant of Thailand’s judicial system threatens offenders with heavy sanctions, but offers few rehabilitation mechanisms to address the difficulties inmates face upon returning to life outside the prison gates.
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<span class="field-content">May Barth</span>
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<span class="field-content">18 Jan 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6833" target="_blank"><img src="http://prachatai.com/english/sites/default/files/imagecache/300x150/intro_picture/31.jpg" alt="" title="" width="300" height="150" class="imagecache imagecache-300x150 imagecache-default imagecache-300x150_default"/></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6833" target="_blank"><h3>Junta’s unfussed over politician fears over death penalty </h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6833" target="_blank">
Thailand’s junta has shown itself unwilling to reconsider the inclusion of capital punishment in its Organic Act on Political Parties.
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<span class="field-content">May Barth</span>
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<span class="field-content">12 Jan 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6944" target="_blank"><h3>Dhammakaya monks stage hunger strike urging junta to stop harassment</h3></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6942" target="_blank"><h3>Junta to purge Pattaya of prostitution</h3></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6941" target="_blank"><h3>Court refuses to release Pai Dao Din once again </h3></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6940" target="_blank"><h3>Junta’s orders are unlawful, youth activist says to military court </h3></a></span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6927" target="_blank"><h3>The 2016 Corruptions Perceptions Index breakdown: ASEAN and Thailand</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6927" target="_blank">The recent announcement that the Ministry of Commerce is pursuing 20 billion baht in allegedly ‘fake’ rice deals in terms of compensation from six senior individuals, namely former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom; his former deputy Poom Sarapol; Manas Soyploy, a former director-general of the Department of Foreign Trade; his former deputy Tikamporn Natvorathat; and Akrapong Theepvajara, ex-director of the Foreign Rice Trading Office, makes one wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes.</a></div>
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<span class="field-content">16 Feb 2017</span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6923" target="_blank">Chulalongkorn (we have murals of Hitler as a superhero) University is back in the news and you don’t whether to laugh or cry.
Its Faculty of Engineering seems to have spawned its own little Hitlers who are going round seizing the cards of any student not in uniform. And even if you’re in uniform but not the correct one. The blue smock required in workshops is OK if you’re in the workshop, but step outside still wearing it and you’ll get nicked.</a></div>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6903" target="_blank"><h3>Banish the thought</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6903" target="_blank">Within days of a Section 44 order banning certain ideas from entering the country, chaos reigned at the kingdom’s borders.
In an attempt to promote unity and reconciliation and to thwart political divisions, Prime Minister and National Council for Peace and Order Head Prayut Chan-o-cha exercised his supreme authority to ban the entry into Thailand of any work connected to 7 ideologies: communism, socialism, liberalism, anti-monarchism, anti-conservatism, antimilitarism and antidisestablishmentarianism.</a></div>
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<span class="field-content">5 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6898" target="_blank"><h3>Breakdown of 2017 Human Rights Watch Thailand report</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6898" target="_blank">Human Rights Watch (HRW) is the Thai junta’s least favourite international human rights non-governmental organization, just below Amnesty International (AI). HRW’s 2017 report, covered in this recent Prachatai English news report, which includes some choice quotes from Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, is quite damning.</a></div>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6894" target="_blank"><h3>The letter to my son: the Injustice faced by an older brother, 'Pai'</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6894" target="_blank">I decided to write this letter for you, my little son, and for the many other children who may be confused when you hear the story of “Pai.” You may not understand the disappearance of the once-beautiful world. When you grow up a bit, you will come to be aware of more than your own life and comfort.
Pai is a university student and activist. </a></div>
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<span class="field-content">Nuttaa 'Bow' Mahattana</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6937" target="_blank"><h3>Restoring Thailand’s spiritual realm</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6937" target="_blank">The appointment of a new supreme patriarch is an opportunity to better politics and Buddhism in Thailand.
In what could be described as one of his earliest exercises of power, King Rama X has appointed Phra Somdej Maha Muneewong as Thailand’s newest Sangha Raja. After three years of vacancy, Thai Buddhists and the nation’s order of monks have got their long awaited Supreme Patriarch. But despite much celebration and fanfare, will the new Sangha Raja rescue Thai Buddhism? And what does the whole appointment process say about contemporary Thailand and its broken politics?</a></div>
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<span class="field-content">21 Feb 2017</span>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6928" target="_blank"><h3>Photo exhibition: "Facing Trance in Indonesia"</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6928" target="_blank">If the face is the mirror of a soul, then what should reflect one’s who is or is believed to be in trance or possessed by spirits? The exhibition to be held on 18-25 February at SEA Junction is an attempt by the photographer Eva Rapoport to find answers to this question.</a></div>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6926" target="_blank"><h3>Burmese govt must protect victims of violence, bring peace to Rakhine state </h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6926" target="_blank">We call on all parties to find a meaningful solution to the problems in the Rakhine State of Myanmar so that there is everlasting peace. Given the way things have unfolded in the Rakhine State over the last few years, especially the recent episodes of violence which has left hundreds of people displaced, their houses burnt, it certainly does not augur well for the future of a Myanmar that is gradually transitioning towards democracy.</a></div>
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<p dir="ltr">This is a challenge from society</p>
<p dir="ltr">Life is not a toy</p>
<p dir="ltr">To be trifled with. </p>
<p dir="ltr">That is how you lose democracy.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Being selfish, happiness and nice words</p>
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6857" target="_blank"><h3>Jatuphat ‘Pai’ Boonpattararaksa</h3></a></span>
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<div class="field-content"><a href="http://prachatai.com/english/node/6857" target="_blank">A poem from behind bars by Jatuphat ‘Pai’ Boonpattararaksa, an anti-junta activist accused of lèse majesté, 20 January 2017
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<li><a href="http://facthai.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">FACThai</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.asiasentinel.com/" target="_blank">Asia Sentinel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ipsnews.net/asia.asp" target="_blank">Inter Press Service News Agency</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/" target="_blank">Global Voices</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ifex.org" target="_blank">IFEX</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.asiamediaforum.org/" target="_blank">Asia Media Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/" target="_blank">Counter Punch</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.engagemedia.org/" target="_blank">Engage Media</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/" target="_blank">The New Mandala</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.iiss.org/" target="_blank">The International Institute For Strategic Studies</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.api-fellowships.org/body/" target="_blank">Asian Public Intellectuals</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kyotoreview.org/" target="_blank">Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia</a></li>
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