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2020–2021 Thai protests. 2020–2021 Thai protests. Clockwise from top: Protesters at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok on 18 July. A student protester reading demands on monarchical reform on 3 August. Demonstration in Pattani Province on 2 August. Dispersal of protests at Patumwan Intersection on 16 October.
The Bangkok Post is an English -language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand. It is published in broadsheet and digital formats. The first issue was sold on 1 August 1946. It had four pages and cost one baht, a considerable amount at the time when a baht was a paper note.
Siam Paragon shooting. On 3 October 2023, at 4:10 p.m., a mass shooting occurred at the Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. The suspected gunman, a 14-year-old male teenager, was arrested after surrendering to the police. The teen, who attended a school that was near the mall, was armed with a modified pistol, which he used ...
Mass media in Thailand. Thailand has a well-developed mass media sector, especially by Southeast Asian standards. The Thai government and the military have long exercised considerable control, especially over radio and TV stations. During the governments of Thaksin Shinawatra [1] and the subsequent military-run administration after the 2006 ...
A 2014 Bangkok Post article said that Mahidol University lecturer Srisombat Chokprajakchat's survey indicated "more than 41% of Thais nationwide want to keep the death penalty on the books, but only 8% want to scrap capital punishment, with the majority undecided...most of those who favoured execution as a legal punishment felt it was the most effective deterrent against capital crimes ...
None. On 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by Prayut Chan-o-cha, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état, the twelfth since the country's first coup in 1932, [ 1 ] against the caretaker government following six months of political crisis. [ 1 ] The military established a junta called the National ...
Bernard Trink (1931 – 6 October 2020) was a columnist for the Bangkok Post. [1] A native New Yorker, Trink moved to Bangkok in the mid-1960s and taught English at various universities before taking over the "Nite Owl" column in 1966 at the now defunct Bangkok World, an English-language evening newspaper. Trink's popular "Nite Owl" column ran ...
A sign reading "สมรสเท่าเทียม" (Thai for "equal marriage"; a recurring slogan calling for same-sex marriage legalisation in Thailand) at Bangkok Pride, 2022. Thai opinion polls have consistently favoured legal recognition of same-sex marriages.