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  • Feb 8, 2024 | universityworldnews.com | Teeranai Charuvastra

    THAILAND Student organisations at nine universities across Thailand have rallied behind a liberal-leaning political party’s effort to amend a law that practically forbids any open discussion about the country’s royal family, days after a top court blocked the attempt at the reform. Remarks or actions deemed as insulting toward members of the royal family are punishable under Thailand’s Section 112 of the Criminal Code, an offence also known as lèse majesté.

  • Aug 5, 2023 | universityworldnews.com | Teeranai Charuvastra

    THAILAND As a professor of education at Lampang Rajabhat University in northern Thailand, Pinyapan Potjanalawan is thoroughly familiar with the process of teaching. But in recent years he has a new endeavour: trying to teach his colleagues to stand up for themselves. Pinyapan and a handful of fellow professors are pushing for a labour union for academics – a phenomenon virtually absent from Thai universities, unlike the situation in many Western countries.

  • Jul 27, 2023 | prachataienglish.com | Teeranai Charuvastra

    Police said Wednesday they were investigating a bomb attack at the home of a finance newspaper editor. It came just hours after a colleague at the same news outlet received a death threat to his children. The two editors work at Thunhoon, a daily news outlet that covers the financial sector and stock market happenings. Police have yet to name any suspects or their motives. The newspaper management and the Thai Journalists Association condemned the twin attacks as a brazen assault on the press.

  • Jul 22, 2023 | universityworldnews.com | Teeranai Charuvastra

    THAILAND Students staged a protest on Friday afternoon at a university in Bangkok to vent their fury at unelected senators who blocked a progressive-leaning lawmaker from securing the premiership – a setback which some fear could spark a new wave of protests similar to those that gripped Thailand in 2020.

  • Jul 12, 2023 | universityworldnews.com | Teeranai Charuvastra

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Teeranai Charuvastra
Teeranai Charuvastra @Teeranai_c
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Teeranai Charuvastra
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8 Mar 24

RT @FCCThai: 'Breaking the taboo: A fight for fair treatment in Thailand’s media industry', a great piece by our Thai colleague and former…

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6 Mar 24

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