In an article for the Bangkok Post, Thitinan Pongsudhirak recaps former Thai PM Thaksin’s recent jail sentence and the events that led to it. While this may seem as a close on Thaksin's chapter in Thai politics, Thitinan argues that he will likely continue to have a political role as part of the Shinawatra dynasty.

In an article by The New York Times, Francesca Regalado writes about a recent museum exhibition in Thailand that criticized authoritarian governments in China, Myanmar and other countries. The curator, an artist from Myanmar, swiftly left the country from fear of being arrested and deported back to Myanmar. Chinese authorities wanted the museum to remove the names of artists from Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang, as matters in these areas were “purely China’s internal affairs.”

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