Benjamin Freeman, Bangkok

The lamentable state of Thai academic freedom

Lecturers and students risk being penalized and even imprisoned if they offer up certain views on the monarchy

Thai police accused of regular use of torture

Rights advocates say the Thai government has failed miserably to live up to pledges to end torture in police custody

Down and out in Bangkok

The number of homeless people on the streets of the Thai capital has surged as a result of widening inequalities

Bad Student group demand changes to Thailand's education system

Activist group says country's ‘rotten' education system doesn’t meet the needs of students

Thailand among worst violators of free speech in cyberspace

Creeping authoritarianism is relentlessly on the march in the Southeast Asian nation

'Like communist China': Thai PM seeks to gag critics

Prayut's move to censor any negative comments made online will serve to further curtail freedom of speech

Thai regime ramps up efforts to silence critics

More Thais are openly criticizing the government for its mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic

Pandemic widens chasm between rich and poor in Thailand

As millions of Thais have been plunged into penury, the country’s 50 richest tycoons have seen their fortunes balloon

Thais tell prime minister 'enough is enough'

More Thais are calling on Prayut Chan-o-cha to leave as Covid cases rise and the economy reels

Death at sea: Thai slave masters show no mercy

Thailand's lucrative fishing sector resorts to highly unethical practices, notably forced migrant labor

More questions than answers over missing Thai activists

Fears grow that exiled dissidents were made to disappear by powerful people as police investigations stall

Get me out of here, say frustrated young Thais

Mismanagement of Covid-19, corruption, nepotism and human rights violations are their main reasons for wanting to emigrate

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