<div> <div>As the teacher worshipping season approaches in Thailand, a group of Thai students led by renowned student activist Netiwit has proposed new ways of paying respect to teachers to replace the long-practised ceremony which glorifies the importance of hierarchy in Thai society.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Last week, the group led by Netiwit Chotipatpaisan, a student activist who advocates Thai education reform, published a short film parody of the ‘Wai Khru’ ceremony, a ceremony where students pay respect to teachers by prostrating themselves before their teachers with a bouquet of </div></div>

<p>The police in southern Thailand have questioned a freelance journalist about his political opinions and asked whether he is linked to anti-junta student activists in Thailand’s northeast and Deep South insurgent groups.</p> <p>On Wednesday afternoon, Pol Lt Col Parinya Hemachukiatkun, the Chief Inspector of the Special Branch Police of the southern province of Trang, came to inspect the house of Pratyakiat Waro, an independent journalist, while he was not home.</p>

<div> <div>Update: the three were released on Friday evening with no charge.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The police have detained three student activists from the Dao Din group of Khon Kaen University, interrupting their plan to show moral support to seven other group members wanted by the police.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Kwanhathai Patumtawonsakul, Jiratchaya Hannarong and Krit Sangsurin were arrested at 1 pm when they were on their way to Khon Kaen’s Democracy Monument. </div></div>

<div> <div>Economic experts said Thailand needs human capital development to catch up with new global economic trends.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> <div>On Thursday, the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science held a public forum, “Moving Up the Global Value Chain: Thailand’s Upgrading and Growth Imperatives”, featuring four speakers: Pavida Pananond from Thammasat University, Kirida Bhaopichitr from the World Bank Group, Roong Poshyananda Mallikamas from the Bank of Thailand and Deunden Nikomborirak from TDRI (Thailand De </div>

<p dir="ltr">The head of the Thai police proposed a plan to reduce multiple internet gateways to a single one in order to increase the efficiency of the state’s surveillance system. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Pol Gen Somyos Pumpanmuang, the chief of the Royal Thai Police, on Wednesday suggested to the Thai government and the state’s security agencies to permit only one internet gateway system instead of multiple ones.</p>

<p>A civil society group in northeastern Thailand urged the relevant authorities to come up with solutions to improve the water quality of a tributary of the Mekong River, saying that incompetent civil servants should be replaced if they cannot solve the problem.</p>

<p>The Thai junta has threatened to issue arrest warrants against anti-coup student activists who refuse to report to the police. &nbsp;</p> <p>On Thursday, Col Winthai Suwaree, the spokesperson of the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), announced that if the student activists from the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/dao-din-group">Dao Din Group</a>, an anti-junta student activist group from the northeastern province of Khon Kaen, fail to report to the police on 18 June, the police will issue arrest warrants against them.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1434540807&amp;section=11">Khaosod English</a>: Politicians from Thailand's two rival political camps have been asked by the military junta to attend a forum on its national reform efforts this Friday.&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">The court in Isan, Thailand’s Northeast, tried a rubber farmer accused of growing rubber trees in national park’s land plots. &nbsp;</p> <p>According to Chai Thongdeenok, a member of Thai Ban Phuraisit Sakon Nakhon, a local group which promotes land rights for the locals in the northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon, the court on Wednesday held a witness examination hearing of Sin Ngoenpakdee, a villager of Chad-Rabeab Village of Phu Phan District in the province.</p>

<p>An environmental protection group in Isan, Thailand’s northeast, has issued a statement to urge state agencies to come up with measures to protect the local environmental from gas drilling activities.</p>

<p>The Thai prosecutor’s office has indicted and proceeded with the extradition of a lèse majesté suspect in exile.</p> <p>The Office of the Attorney General of Thailand on Tuesday indicted&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/taxonomy/term/2458/all">Ekapop L. (aka Tang Achiwa)</a>, an anti-establishment red shirt currently in self-imposed exile, under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p>

<p>The Thai military stormed into a meeting in central Thailand, citing the junta’s ban on political gatherings, while calling meeting participants ‘brainless’.</p> <p>On 13 June, according to the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawyercenter2014/posts/843977265652129?__mref=message_bubble">&nbsp;Thai Lawyer for Human Rights Centre</a>&nbsp;(TLHR), military officers intervened in a meeting organised by the Assembly of the Poor (AOP), an NGO which is the voice of marginalised communities in Thailand, in Chai Badan District of central Lopburi Province.</p>