Thailand’s top legal expert, former deputy prime minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, says that the coded ballot sheets used in the February 8 general election may have been a violation of the Constitution and may lead to the nullification of the election.
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An imprisoned human rights lawyer and pro-democracy activist was sentenced by the Criminal Court today to an additional two years and eight months in prison on a lèse majesté conviction.
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Jensen Huang Says He Lived in Bangkok as a Child but Was Sent to the U.S. Due to Frequent Coups in Thailand
The CEO of NVIDIA has revealed that he spent part of his childhood living in Thailand before his parents decided to send him to the United States, citing concerns about political instability and repeated military coups.
Speaking in a December 2025 interview on the The Joe Rogan Experience, Huang said he considers himself an immigrant because he lived in Thailand prior to moving to America. Although he was born in Taiwan, his father worked in Thailand as a chemical and instrumentation engineer and helped establish an oil refinery, prompting the family to relocate to Bangkok around 1973–1974.
Huang recalled that the political situation at the time influenced his parents’ decision to send their children abroad.
“You know, in Thailand there are coups all the time. Soldiers rise up, and then one day there are tanks and troops out on the streets,” he said, explaining that his parents felt the country might not be safe for their children.
At the time, Huang was nine years old and his older brother nearly eleven. Their parents contacted relatives in Tacoma, Washington, and sent the boys to live with them, despite the fact they had never met before. Huang said he later attended school in the United States and eventually worked his way up to lead one of the world’s most influential technology companies.
The wide-ranging interview primarily focused on artificial intelligence, technological competition, and the future of computing, with Huang also reflecting on his upbringing and immigrant experience.
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A Thai court has sentenced a jailed activist lawyer to an additional two years and eight months in prison for insulting the monarchy at a rally in November 2020, a rights group said, bringing his combined sentence to more than 30 years https://t.co/xMsvcEYetC
Academic Explains Importance of Secret Ballot Amid Ongoing Barcode Dispute
The principle of secret voting is essential to protecting voters from intimidation and ensuring they can freely express their political will, a law academic said, as debate continues over barcodes and QR codes printed on ballots from Thailand’s February 8 election.
On February 14, Ponson Liengboonlertchai, a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Chulalongkorn University, said elections must remain non-traceable so that no one can determine which voter supported which candidate or party. Such protections, he said, are necessary to prevent fear of retaliation or coercion and to preserve public confidence in the electoral system.
He explained that ballot secrecy depends on safeguarding anonymity by severing any connection between identifying voter information and the vote itself, both during the voting process and after results are known. This includes avoiding unique identifiers on ballots that could potentially link votes back to individuals.
Ponson argued that focusing only on secrecy during voting — without ensuring anonymity after ballots are counted — amounts to protecting confidentiality “only halfway,” and would not meet constitutional standards for secret elections. He added that even the possibility that votes could be traced back to voters would violate the principle.
The comments come amid ongoing scrutiny of the Election Commission’s ballot design following the February 8 polls. Similar concerns have also been raised by Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn of the People's Party, who has cited a 2006 ruling by the Constitutional Court of Thailand to argue that any system enabling ballots to be linked to individual voters would breach the requirement for secret voting.
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