PM’s aide files lese majeste complaint against lawmaker
By Reuters Staff, published by Microsoft News AN aide to Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha today (Feb. 18) filed a criminal complaint accusing an opposition lawmaker of insulting His Majesty the King, a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Thailand has seen a sharp increase in use of the “lese majeste” law since […]
Read MoreHow Mars became the prize for a new space race — and why China is hellbent on winning it
By Steffi Paladini, Space.com This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Steffi Paladini, Reader in Economics & Global Security, Birmingham City University LOOKING at its achievements over the past decade, nobody would doubt China is aiming to win the new […]
Read MoreClubhouse emerges as platform for Thai dissidents, govt issues warning
By Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Reuters, published by US News & World Report THAILAND warned users of Clubhouse not to break the law after the audio social media app emerged almost overnight as a platform for discussion of the monarchy, the latest example of the fast-growing app drawing the ire of governments in Asia. Digital minister […]
Read MoreOver 5 million baht donations for elderly woman, aging son
IMAGES of an elderly woman giving some rice to her aging son to eat as sat on the floor and waited to register for 7,000 baht handout under Rao Chana (We Win) scheme in Kamphaeng Phet province yesterday (Feb.17) so stirred Thai people that they have now got 5.1 million baht in donations, Amarin TV […]
Read MoreWoman takes marriage certificate to husband’s wedding to another woman
GOING viral on Thai social media today (Feb. 18) is a woman’s Facebook post where she said she attended her husband’s wedding to another woman even though she was not invited, Sanook.com said. A live-streamed clip shows this woman, dressed in black, taking her marriage certificate to show her husband, who is a government official, […]
Read MorePathum Thani market Covid cluster spreads to 10 provinces
THE Public Health Ministry’s Disease Control Department said this afternoon (Feb. 18) that a cluster of coronavirus infection at Pornpat market in adjacent Pathum Thani province spread to 10 provinces during Feb. 9-16 with the number of cases jumping to 359, Siam Rath newspaper. Of the 359 cases, 332 are in Pathum Thani but the […]
Read MoreMyanmar junta targets paralysing strikes, as arrests near 500
By Reuters Staff, published by MSN MYANMAR’S military junta has issued arrest warrants against six celebrities for encouraging strikes that have paralysed many government offices in protests against this month’s coup, with total arrests since then now nearing 500. Late yesterday (Feb. 17), security forces opened fire in Myanmar’s second biggest city of Mandalay as […]
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