By Prachatai |
During a hearing at the South Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday (16 July), a representative from the Immigration Bureau said that the Thai authorities prevented Hong Kong activist and UN-recognised refugee Zhang Xinyan from traveling to Canada after the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok asked that Thailand delay her resettlement.
By Prachatai |
The Court of Appeal Region 5 has sentenced a human rights lawyer to two years in prison for royal defamation over his protest speech delivered during a 2020 protest at Chiang Mai University.
By Prachatai |
The Thanyaburi Provincial Court inquest into the death in custody of a pro-democracy activist has found that she died from a mineral imbalance compounded by an enlarged heart. The ruling did not resolve whether negligence by officials and medical staff contributed to her death.
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By Raviwan Rakthinkamnerd |
This report examines the Thai military’s operations on the digital battlefield during the two rounds of heavy fighting through web-scraped data collected from social media communications and hashtag usage. The analysis covers 6,404 posts published between July 12, 2025 and January 2026 by the official Facebook pages of the Royal Thai Army, the Royal Thai Navy, and the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters—the three military institutions that were most active during the clashes.—as well as a number of unofficial pages.
By Sasitorn Aksornwilai |
It has become clear that the Thailand-Cambodia maritime demarcation dispute will be subject to an international mechanism as Cambodia has recently invoked UN-backed compulsory conciliation in response to Thailand’s unilateral cancellation of a 25-year-old maritime MoU. Here’s all you need to know about the long-standing maritime dispute and the compulsory conciliation process.
By Prachatai |
Military conscription law in Cambodia has once again come under global media attention after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet stated that the Cabinet had approved a draft conscription law at the Peace Palace on 23 April 2026. All Cambodian citizens aged 18–25 will be required to serve in the military, while women may be recruited on a voluntary basis under the new law. A Thai activist calls it a threat to democracy.
By Patchsita Rungrojtanakul |
Communities along the Kok River say that their livelihood are being affected by water contamination. To raise awareness about water contamination in six rivers and demand action from the Thai government, monks, community members, and civil society workers participated in a six-day ‘peace walk’ along the Kok River.
By Raviwan Rakthinkamnerd |
This report examines the Thai military’s operations on the digital battlefield during the two rounds of heavy fighting through web-scraped data collected from social media communications and hashtag usage. The analysis covers 6,404 posts published between July 12, 2025 and January 2026 by the official Facebook pages of the Royal Thai Army, the Royal Thai Navy, and the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters—the three military institutions that were most active during the clashes.—as well as a number of unofficial pages.
By Sheikh Mehzabin Chitra |
Indigenous communities and. environmental defenders in Thailand are demanding action against worsening water contamination in the Kok River and other tributaries of the Mekong, which resulted from mining activities in Myanmar.
By Sheikh Mehzabin Chitra |
On 11 May 2026, the physical gates of Klong Prem Central Prison opened for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. For many activists and critics of Thailand's justice system, however, his release highlighted what they see as a stark contrast between the treatment of political elites and that of pro-democracy campaigners facing lengthy prison sentences.
By Sheikh Mehzabin Chitra |
The decision to terminate the 2001 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU 2001) by the Thai Cabinet on 5 May 2026 signals a transformative shift toward militarized unilateralism in Southeast Asia, while rising nationalism has stalled military reform in Thailand.
By Prachatai |
Military conscription law in Cambodia has once again come under global media attention after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet stated that the Cabinet had approved a draft conscription law at the Peace Palace on 23 April 2026. All Cambodian citizens aged 18–25 will be required to serve in the military, while women may be recruited on a voluntary basis under the new law. A Thai activist calls it a threat to democracy.
By Zoe Chiang |
Nearly fifty years on, the 6 October 1976 Thammasat University Massacre is no longer a denied chapter of history. Commemoration events have expended since the 2020 youth movement, but even as the silence is broken, accountability remains to be found.
By Anna Lawattanatrakul |
Five years after abortion was legalised in Thailand, abortion access remains limited. As an answer to these constraints, the abortion rights group Tamtang Foundation has opened Tarntawan Clinic, aiming to find a friendlier way of providing abortion care and to widen access to abortion in Thailand.
By John Quinley III |
Two developments on opposite sides of the world, in Thailand and the United States, underscore a troubling reality: some governments continue to embrace the death penalty regardless of the global movement to abolish state-sanctioned killings.
By Rungrot Tatiyawongwiwat |
Since the launch of its first internet connection in 1987, Thailand has significantly expanded its digital infrastructure, which now includes the rollout of a 5G network nationwide. Its public digital infrastructure now includes the Government Data Center and Cloud Service (GDCC), Digital ID platforms, e-government service portals, online tax systems, and digital welfare registration mechanisms.However, access remains difficult for many citizens, particularly in remote areas and among the elderly.
By Don Pathan |
Formal peace talks between the Thai government and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani (BRN) will resume in June 2026. This comes despite a recent spike in violence in the far South, which the insurgents are using to demand deeper political discussions to address their demands for “self-government”.
By Reporters Without Borders |
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Safeguard Defenders call on Thai authorities to refrain from deporting detained prominent Chinese journalist Bai Zhaodong to China.
By Human Rights Watch |
The Thai government should not forcibly return detained Chinese dissidents to China, Human Rights Watch said on 13 July. At least four Chinese dissidents detained at the Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Center in Bangkok face possible deportation to China. The Chinese government has increasingly pressured Thai authorities ahead of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s scheduled visit to China from July 16 to 20, 2026.
By ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) |
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) warns that ASEAN’s shift toward “calibrated re-engagement” with Myanmar’s military-appointed government risks normalizing a dictatorship without securing any tangible results for the Myanmar people.
Many parents are told that the future will reward creativity, adaptability and confidence. That may be true, but it can make academic foundations sound almost old-fashioned. In Bangkok, schools such as Singapore Global International School reflect a different view: that modern education still needs strong structure, especially if children are expected to think independently later.
Prudence Foundation, in partnership with Plan International, today marked the successful conclusion of the Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) Project with the official handover of the CSS Learning Platform (www.thaicssplatform)