<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">The military demanded an Isan environmental activist to shut down his personal Facebook and a campaigning Facebook on the controversial Pak Moon Dam and order him to report in. The activists defied, however. &nbsp;</span></div> <p></p>

<div> <div>The military at 10 am on Thursday released the five student activists from Khon Kaen University with no charge.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Since Wednesday the military has tried to force the group to sign a document stating that they admit their wrongdoing in protesting against the coup and promising not to hold any further political activities, according to Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, a fifth year law student who is one of the five.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Thursday two students complied while three others refused to sign the document.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div</p> </div</p></div>

<div> <div>After five student activists from Khon Kaen University were arrested on Wednesday morning for flashing a three-fingered salute, a group of 11 student activists from Bangkok’s Thammasat University organized a supper at the Democracy Monument to show support for their fellow student activists, which led to their arrest late on Wednesday night.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>After they were detained for about four hours, the police released them before midnight without charge.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://farm9.</p /> </div>

<div> <div><em>Update: At around 1:30pm, the police arrested Natchacha Kongudom, a Bangkok University student at Siam Paragon's cinema, after she raised three fingered salute in front of the Hunger Game 3 poster when she received a free ticket from the LLTD. </em></div></div>

<p>Two cinemas in downtown Bangkok were pressured into withdrawing a popular blockbuster, Hunger Games 3: Mockingjay ,from their schedule after the authorities earlier today arrested five anti-coup protesters in the Northeast.</p> <p>Spokespersons for the cinemas belonging to Apex company at Bangkok's Siam Square shopping district, announced on Wednesday afternoon that the company had decided not to screen Hunger Games 3: Mockingjay Part 1 in any of its cinemas, without clarifying the reasons why the company decided to do this.</p>

<div> <div> <div>To highlight its important role in 60 years of promoting human rights and freedom of the press, the Thai Journalists Association (TJA) will organize a charity golf tournament, where the winners will be awarded trophies by Thailand’s current junta leader and a former unelected prime minister from the military.</div> </div></div>

<div> <div><em>Update: At around 6.30 pm, the military released the five activists but demanded them to come back with their parents and will officially charged them on Thursday. During the interogation, the military pressured the students to sign a document, stating that they will not hold any anti-coup activity nor expressing disaproval on the coup again. </em></div></div>

<p>The authorities used martial law to remove student banners protesting against the Mae Wong Dam and threatened students with arrest to force them to cancel a rally. &nbsp;</p> <p>Police officers on Tuesday afternoon intervened and ordered the cancellation of a rally against the conduct of the Environmental Health Impact Assessment (EHIA) of the construction of the Mae Wong Dam, organized by students from Kasetsart University in Bang Khen, in the north of Bangkok, while threatening the students with arrest, according to Matichon.</p>

<div> <div>The court on Tuesday approved a police custody petition to detain Jaruwan E., 26, for 12 days, despite objections from the defendant.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>She did not submit any bail request since she is destitute and has no lawyer representing her.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>After the ruling, she was taken to the Central Women Correctional Institution, Bangkok.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Sunday night, she was arrested by a combined military and police force and was detained at a military camp for a night for interrogation. </div></div>

<div> <div>The military court on Tuesday sentenced the red-shirt host of a political podcast programme to 10 years in jail for defaming the King on his programme, but since the defendant pleaded guilty, the court reduced the sentence by half to five years in jail.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The civilian criminal courts have normally sentenced defendants to between three and five years for each count of lèse majesté, but in this case the military court gave 10 years for a single count.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Kathawut B. </div></div>

<div>A combined force of military and police on Monday evening arrested and charged a man and a woman for making false claims about a royalist project for personal benefit.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>According to &nbsp;<a href="http://www.manager.co.th/Crime/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9570000132605">ASTV-Manager Online</a>, Chainarin K., former president of the Secretariat of Admiring the King and Pitchakan W, were accused by Somlab Kitiyakorn, another former president, of using the organization to find benefit themselves.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The loss from the false claims was abo </div>

<div>The Education Minister and the North Korean Ambassador to Thailand mutually agreed that the education systems of both countries are rather similar and plan to develop ties by educational exchanges.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>According to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.moe.go.th/websm/2014/nov/256.html">&nbsp;Office of the Minister Newsline</a>, Admiral Narong Pipatanasai, the Thai Education Minister, his Deputy Teerakiat Jareonsettasin, and Permanent Secretary Suthasri Wongsamarn met with Mun Song Mo, the Ambassador of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea on Friday at Government House. </div>