<p>&nbsp;The discovery of 169 corpses that had been transported from temporary graves in Chumphon to similarly temporary graves in Rayong has led to widespread speculation about the identity of the dead bodies.</p>

<p><em>&rdquo;In hospitals across Sweden, the rest of Europe and in North America, the products of M&ouml;lnlycke Health Care help save lives and reduce human suffering. In Samut Prakarn, they have the opposite effect&rdquo;. </em></p>

<p>Until he received his Thai citizenship and identification card this month, life was very difficult for 17-year-old Joe as a stateless person.</p> <p>&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t go to places I wanted to go, though the rest of my family could. Police always stopped me from leaving my village since I didn&rsquo;t have anything to prove I was Thai,&rdquo; he says. </p>

<p>Craig J. Reynolds, history professor at Australian National University, gave his perspective on politics in Thailand and other mainland Southeast Asian countries as part of the 'outsider view' lecture series organized by Midnight University and Chiang Mai University on 3 Aug.</p>

<p>The young foreign volunteers were asked to reflect on their year of teaching in Thailand&rsquo;s schools and to recount what had most surprised them. The answer came quickly.</p>

<p>Prasong Panyatham, a 27-year-old homeless scavenger, is among 5 defendants who were arrested by the military in Din Daeng, Bangkok, on 21 May last year.&nbsp; While their trial is underway, his recent no-show has made the other defendants worry that their case might not end anytime soon.</p>

<p>On Wednesday (August 10), torture victim Sudeerueman Maleh, former client of missing human rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit, was sentenced to two years in prison. Why? The Thai police do not only enjoy impunity against gross human rights violations, but are also able to use it in order to make it a crime for victims to even file complaints of human rights abuses.</p>

<p>&nbsp;British Prime Minister David Cameron was forced to return from his Tuscan holiday a second time to deal with the widespread turmoil in the financial markets. Night after night, mobs of out-of-control investors had been roaming the markets at will, looting and pillaging with impunity.</p>

<p>Late last month, Joe Gordon, a Thai-American citizen, was again denied bail on charges relating to lese-majeste and the Computer Crimes Act (CCA). The decision marks the seventh and final appeal for bail during the period of his pre-trial incarceration. </p>

<p>There is no single explanation for such a complex event as social unrest. &nbsp;</p> <p>Arguments circling around what lies beneath the London riots of 2011 can be categorised into socio-economic analyses on the one hand, and social psychologists&rsquo; explanations on the other.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p>Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell University and author of <em>Imagined Communities</em>, offered his view on Thai politics at a forum organized by the Midnight University and the Faculty of Humanities of Chiang Mai University on 26 Jan 2011.</p>

<p>Having had my progressive, liberal, egalitarian credentials brought into question last week, I feel that this week&rsquo;s article must further discuss the pro and cons of a substantial increase in the minimum wage.</p>