Nyheter fra Thailand - levert av The Guardian
My RSS Feed
- Three things with Abdul Abdullah: ‘I saw a TikTok that said if you’re a grown man who uses a backpack, you’ve made some poor life choices’
In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the Perth-born artist shares a painting that takes pride of place in his home – and why he won’t be shamed for toting a bag
Abdul Abdullah’s work interrogates otherness and Australian identity with a precision that has led to him being shortlisted many times for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. While the potency of his art is constant, his approach is always shifting. Some works are photographic self-portraits, others are public installations of smiling faces or outstretched hands. In one 2022 piece he asked, in text painted across a 10m-wide canvas, what Australia’s public art collections would look like “if we divested them of sex pests and paedophiles”.
The Perth-born artist is now based in Bangkok, where he lives with his wife, the Bundjulung/Ngapuhi artist Amrita Hepi. He considers artworks – not his own pieces, but those made by friends and collaborators – to be his most prized possessions. Here he shares the story of one piece that hangs proudly at home and another lost, as well as the everyday item he relies on – even if TikTok tries to shame him for it.
Continue reading...1 September 01 2024Australian lifestylehttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/sep/02/three-things-with-abdul-abdullah-i-saw-a-tiktok-that-said-if-youre-a-grown-man-who-uses-a-backpack-youve-made-some-poor-life-choices - YouTube chef found guilty of gruesome murder on Thai holiday island
Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, from a prominent Spanish acting family, sentenced to life in prison after admitting dismembering the victim’s body and disposing of it
A court in Thailand has found Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a famous Spanish acting family and a YouTube chef, guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison, in a lurid case that has gripped Spain.
The 30-year-old was convicted of the murder of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, a 44-year-old plastic surgeon from Colombia, when both were vacationing on the Thai holiday island of Koh Pha-ngan in August 2023.
Continue reading...29 August 29 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/29/youtube-chef-found-guilty-of-gruesome-on-thai-holiday-island - Thailand confirms Asia’s first known case of new deadlier mpox variant
The department of disease control said tests on a traveller had confirmed he was infected with the Clade 1b strain of mpox
Thailand has confirmed Asia’s first known case of a new, deadlier strain of mpox in a patient who had travelled to the country from Africa.
The department of disease control said laboratory tests on the 66-year-old had confirmed he was infected with the mpox Clade 1b variant.
Continue reading...23 August 23 2024Mpoxhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/23/thailand-mpox-clade-1b-strain-new-variant-case - Senior Thai politician who slapped reporter to be investigated
Thai parliament to investigate Prawit Wongsuwon after he repeatedly hit a journalist as she tried to ask him questions
Thailand’s parliament has said it will investigate a senior politician and former army chief after he was filmed slapping a reporter as she tried to ask him questions.
Prawit Wongsuwon lashed out at a journalist from the public broadcaster ThaiPBS on Friday as she asked him about the appointment of Paetongtarn Shinawatra as the kingdom’s new prime minister.
Continue reading...22 August 22 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/22/senior-thai-politician-who-slapped-reporter-to-be-investigated - Anger at Thailand’s top court as voters become numb to political chaos
Frustration brews among voters after banning of progressive Move Forward party and removal of Srettha Thavisin as prime minister
People in Thailand are accustomed to sudden changes of government brought on by military coups, numbering more than a dozen since the 1930s. But in the past two decades, they have increasingly seen such changes imposed by the courts, which have ousted four prime ministers and dissolved three election-winning political parties, often on narrow technical grounds.
Now anger – along with a sense of resignation – is brewing over the perceived heavy-handed involvement of Thailand’s nine-member Constitutional Court in the country’s fractious politics.
Continue reading...21 August 21 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/21/thailand-constitutional-court-protests-move-forward-party-dissolved - ‘The place I love is in flames’: the people living and working in extreme heat
From a firefighter to a fruit farmer, from Greece to Thailand, the Guardian speaks to people in places hit hardest by the climate crisis
Extreme heat records have been broken around the world this year, and scientists say 2024 is likely to be the hottest year in human history. With the climate crisis causing droughts and wildfires and having devastating effects on crops and animals, the Guardian has spoken to people living in some of the places that have been hit the hardest
Continue reading...16 August 16 2024Extreme heathttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/16/the-place-i-love-is-in-flames-the-people-living-and-working-in-extreme-heat - Paetongtarn Shinawatra becomes Thailand’s youngest prime minister
Daughter of Thaksin Shinawatra approved as PM after frantic negotiations triggered by ousting of Srettha Thavisin
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of the billionaire former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, has become Thailand’s youngest prime minister, taking office just days after her predecessor was ousted by a shock court ruling.
Paetongtarn was approved as the new head of government in a parliamentary vote that came after 24 hours of frantic negotiations triggered by a court judgment ordering Srettha Thavisin to step down as prime minister.
Continue reading...16 August 16 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/16/paetongtarn-shinawatra-thailand-pm-replacement-voting-thaksin-shinawatra - Little experience and a lot on her plate: who is Thailand’s new prime minister?
Paetongtarn Shinawatra is the fourth member of her family to lead Thailand, but she faces a country that has moved on from her father’s era
Paetongtarn Shinawatra comes from one of the most influential and divisive families in Thai politics. Her father Thaksin was once considered unbeatable at the ballot box, and she is the fourth member of the family to lead the country.
But much has changed since the peak of her father’s popularity, and Paetongtarn – Thailand’s youngest ever prime minister – will probably face an uphill battle in office.
Continue reading...16 August 16 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/16/little-experience-and-a-lot-on-her-plate-who-is-thailands-new-prime-minister - Thailand’s Pheu Thai party to choose successor after prime minister removed by court
Biggest party in caretaker government to choose between former justice minister Chaikasem Nitisiri and Thaksin Shinawatra’s daughter, Paetongtarn
The biggest party in Thailand’s caretaker government will meet on Thursday to choose a successor for dismissed former premier Srettha Thavisin, as it races to shore up its alliance a day ahead of a pivotal parliamentary vote on a new prime minister.
Thailand is again gripped by political drama, less than a year after real estate mogul Srettha rose to power after weeks of parliamentary deadlock, with his Pheu Thai party scrambling to retain control and deliver on its stalled populist agenda amid a struggling economy.
Continue reading...15 August 15 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/15/thailand-pheu-thai-party-leader-srettha-thavisin-replacement - Thai court removes Srettha Thavisin as prime minister after less than a year
Srettha becomes fourth Thai PM dismissed by court in 16 years, after appointing former lawyer who served jail time
Thailand’s constitutional court on Wednesday dismissed the prime minister, Srettha Thavisin, for appointing to his cabinet a former lawyer who served jail time, raising the spectre of more political upheaval and a reset of the governing alliance.
Srettha, a real-estate tycoon, becomes the fourth Thai prime minister in 16 years to be removed by verdicts of the same court, after it ruled he had violated the constitution by appointing a minister who did not meet ethical standards.
Continue reading...14 August 14 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/14/thailand-pm-srettha-thavisin-court-case-dismissal-ruling-judgment