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Audio Clip of Thongchai Winichakul’s Lecture at CMU

28, Jul 2010

US-based Thai academic Thongchai Winichakul gave a special lecture at Chiang Mai University’s faculty of humanities on Wednesday, during which he offered an insightful analysis of various issues surrounding the April-May red-shirt protest and the subsequent crackdown. An audio clip of the lecture (including the hour-long Q&A session at the end) is available here. Please [...]

The War of Colours Resumes at the Ballot Box

23, Jul 2010

(photo credit: Ratchaprasong on Flickr) Chang Noi writes in The Nation about another red-versus-yellow battle in the upcoming Bangkok by-election (to be held on 25 July): […] In short, this constituency is a true marginal and so the result will be heavy with meaning. And that meaning is colour-coded. Panich Wikisreth is not so much [...]

Suda Rangkupan: Thai Academics Warned for Having an Opinion

12, Jul 2010

The University World News (emphasis added): Thai academics are well-known voices on television and radio as analysts and commentators providing lively debate on politics. But broadcasting freely is no longer a simple and safe matter since the government crackdown against Red Shirt protesters in May. [...] “Many professors are reluctant to take sides, often they [...]

Think Democracy is Nonsense? Say It out Loud

3, Jul 2010

Bangkok’s Democracy Monument (photo credit: minikin on Flickr) The Nation’s Thanong wrote this on Twitter (h/t Bangkok Pundit) : Don’t be misled by Freedom, Human rights, Democracy, globalisation and other crazy fashionable ideas. They are poisonous and hollow. And this is what PAD’s Sondhi Limthongkul said on ASTV two months ago : Sondhi also opines [...]

Thailand Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Council

2, Jul 2010

(photo credit: Prachatai on Flickr) No matter which government we have in power, human rights remain essentially an alien concept in Thailand. The Rohingya affairs, the drug war, the perpetual emergency decree – you name it. And yet things have taken a strange, or should I say depressing, turn when the country was elected as [...]


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