Opinion

On a hot Monday afternoon inside a giant warehouse in the northern outskirts of Bangkok, workers were hammering metal beams onto the top deck of what looked like a steampunk Noah's Arc.

Can you eat a cake and keep it as well? Can Thai army generals stage a coup and deny it was a coup? Can...

That Thailand currently has lost it credibility to talk about democracy three years after the coup was evident in its conspicuous omission at a...

I sweat – a lot. Not just slightly above average. When I run, my shoes sometimes get flooded. I sweat so much that I...

There are enormous tax breaks provided by the government. The problem is most people are completely unaware of them. Take the new inheritance tax...

Once you put on a mask, like those of classical Thai khon dramas, they can become difficult to remove. You then may end up having...

By pleading guilty and accepting a reduced sentence of two years and six months in prison for lese majeste, doubts have been raised about the reputation of anti-junta activist Jatupat Boonpattaraksa, or Pai Dao Din.

It never occurred to me that what I write could be seditious.

What is it with those Thais who can’t bear any criticism of their own society by fellow Thais? Why are these people so fickle and fragile? Take the recent case of a teen singer’s critical tweets which provoked a thousand national backlashes.

Last month’s recommendations by a UN body promoting gender equality to Thailand to stop prosecutions of female sex workers and violent raids of entertainment venues have got me thinking further about the issue.