Tag: Thailand

Daily news – February 4, 2022

AFRICA Strategies for financing Africa’s health sector. Vera Songwe, Brookings:  Never before in the last half century has Africa’s health care landscape seen so many...

Thailand: Transgender People Denied Equal Rights (HRW)

Transgender people in Thailand have no route to legal recognition of their gender identity, making them vulnerable to various forms of discrimination, Human Rights Watch said...

Thailand’s regressive royal insult law (David Hopkins, The Interpreter)

At a recent anti-government rally in central Bangkok, one of the leaders of a youth-led movement demanding sweeping political reforms carried a message etched...

Protests loom in Thailand after court ruling fuels anger (Caleb Quinley, Al Jazeera)

A key court ruling in Thailand has raised concern that activists could face charges of treason after nearly 18 months of anti-government protests that...

Thai protesters recount alleged torture under police custody (Caleb Quinley, Al Jazeera)

Once the interrogation room doors shut behind Attasith Nussa, eight plainclothes officers descended upon him quickly. The leading officer approached the 35-year-old Thai pro-democracy protester...

Battlefield Din Daeng: The Thai protesters with ‘nothing to lose’ (Caleb Quinley, Al Jazeera)

Before revealing scars across his body, Gap* glances up at a group of police officers watching closely from across the street. It is only...

Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don (US Department of State)

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai...

Thailand – Thai protesters clash with police at anti-PM rally in Bangkok (Al Jazeera)

The sluggish rollout of Thailand's vaccination programme and financial pain from restrictions is heaping political pressure on the prime minister Three protesters are injured...

Thailand – Thai Youth’s struggle for democracy may fizzle but political contention continues (East Asia Forum)

Penchan Phoborisut, California State University Fullerton Thailand’s anti-government protests have continued in 2021, with the student-led movement trying to maintain momentum despite a surging number...

Thailand/Myanmar – Thailand’s weak reaction to the Myanmar coup (East Asia Forum)

Ruji Auethavornpipat, ANU More than 700 people have been killed in Myanmar since the military seized power in February 2021. Security forces have stepped up their offensive...

(Myanmar/Thailand) Thousands flee for Thailand as Myanmar military bombs border area (Al Jazeera)

Western leaders condemn military’s brutal crackdown as 13 more people reported killed on Sunday. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/28/thousands-flee-after-myanmar-armys-air-strikes-reports

(Thailand) The Clubhouse challenge to digital authoritarianism in Thailand (East Asia Forum)

Wichuta Teeratanabodee, RSIS Disputes between the Thai authorities and anti-authoritarian movements are moving from the streets to the online world. Thai protestors are using creative memes...

(Thailand) Land Bridge in place of Kra Canal: Game changer for Thailand’s future engagement with region and China? (ThinkChina)

By Termsak Chalermpalanupap https://www.thinkchina.sg/land-bridge-place-kra-canal-game-changer-thailands-future-engagement-region-and-china

(Australia/Thailand) Behind the Australia–Thailand Strategic Partnership (John Blaxland, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/27/behind-the-australia-thailand-strategic-partnership/

(Thailand) Canals and Land Bridges: Mega-Infrastructure Proposals for Southern Thailand (Termsak Chalermpalanupap, ISEAS)

The idea of a canal across the Isthmus of Kra in Southern Thailand, or the Kra Canal, prevalent in the eighteenth and nineteenth...

Thailand’s slow economic recovery (Juthathip Jongwanich, East Asia Forum)

Thailand’s economic performance in the third quarter of 2020 showed promising signs of recovery amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The contraction in GDP fell to...