The list of government officials or politicians making incendiary statements against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, which is clearly defenceless in a nation that tends to simplify homosexuality as a sin, is already lamentably long.

THE CASE against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra of alleged negligence in managing her government’s controversial rice-pledging scheme, has raised many questions ahead of a Supreme Court verdict scheduled to be handed down on August 25.