Prachathai

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Prachathai​

Prachathai is an independent worker-owned cooperative online newspaper in Thailand. It covers a wide range of news, from political, economic, social, and cultural to science, health, sport, and arts. The site publishes primarily in Thai but also in English. The stated objectives of Prachathai are:

1. To provide the Thai public with access to reliable news and information relevant to developing and strengthening the democratic functions of Thai civil society.
2. To strive for freedom and independence of Thai news media.
3. To promote active public participation in Thai news media.

 

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Songkhwan Jiarakit won the Confederal Election

On 13 November, 2008, millions of confederal residents head toward polling stations across the Confederation to participate in electronic voting in the first-ever Confederal Election under the 2008 Supreme Confederal Agreement. Yesterday saw the democratic process of the Confederation in electing its Confederal Secretary and the Supreme Confederal Council.

While the SCC result came out as fragmented as expected, the winner, who received 21 percent of all valid votes, was a public servant who worked at Phang Nga Federation's Provincial Assembly. She is in her early 40s and gave birth to a male child two years ago. Ideological commitment and amicable persona marked her transition to her political career.

Songkhwan Jiarakit has been confirmed as the first Confederal Secretary of the Socialist Republic of Thailand and the Confederation by the confederal electoral coordinating authority.

She will be presiding over the SCC-elected Confederal Government meetings as the moderator, taking one seat at the nine-seat Confederal Intelligence Bureaus democratic council of directors of intelligence, representing the people of Thailand on the international stage, and serving as the commander-in-chief of the Confederal Armed Forces.​

 

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Explosion during a CIB and police raid on a Golden Hand cell in Bangkok

At 2:15 this morning, Bangkok Provincial Law Enforcement reports that its joint operation with the Confederal Intelligence Bureau (CIB) resulted in a catastrophic failure. After the CIB informed the police and requested to arrest a Golden Hand cell in the Bangkok Federation jointly, they surrounded a high-rise building of local housing units.

All five pro-capitalist terrorists died in a suicide bombing when confronted by a CIB agent. As a result, three officers and 20 nearby residents were killed in the explosion, leaving another 13 people injured. Local communes have mobilized resources and personnel to alleviate suffering and take care of the crime scene under the Provincial Government's coordination.

Since the explosion took place immediately after the confederal electoral coordination body confirmed the Confederal Election result, the Supreme Confederal Council was inactive, and only the newly elected Confederal Secretary from Phang Nga sits on a nine-seat democratic board of directors of CIB. Songkhwan posted on the SahaiLink social media platform that she had arrived in Bangkok by five in the morning, leaving her son, who just turned two on the election day, at Phang Nga.

The Provincial Government of Bangkok Federation will coordinate the recovery efforts and investigations as decided by the Provincial Assembly. Songkhwan is expected to deliver a speech regarding the explosion as elected confederal coordinators across the country would convene at the Supreme Confederal Council.​