The Self-Defeating Nature of Thailand's 'Soft Power' Push – The Diplomat
A genuine flowering of popular culture would inevitably showcase the repressive nature of the Thai state.
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A genuine flowering of popular culture would inevitably showcase the repressive nature of the Thai state.
The pair were charged as “accomplices” to an incident last March in which an activist spray-painted an anti-royalist message inside Bangkok’s Grand Palace.
The Bangkok Post and Coconuts Bangkok report that Suttawee Soikham, 24, a native of Khon Kaen was "arrested for spray-painting the number 112 [an anti-lese majeste symbol and an anarchist-looking symbol] on the wall of the [Grand Palace] Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok on Tuesday evening has been hit with police charges carrying…
A 24-year-old man arrested for spray-painting the number 112 on the wall of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok on Tuesday evening has been hit with police charges carrying up to seven years in prison.
A 24-year-old man arrested for spray-painting the number 112 on the wall of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok on Tuesday evening has been hit with police charges carrying up to seven years in prison.