<div>Thai Criminal Court on Thursday handed out an unprecedented lèse majesté ruling, sentencing a man to jail for an attempt to insult the royal family because insulting messages and photos of the royal family were found in his computer.&nbsp;</div> <div> </div>

<div>About 150 Thai academics have on Tuesday denounced the proposal of the anti-government protesters to establish a “People’s Council” and royally-appointed caretaker government as legally impossible and undemocratic.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<div>The Rector of Thammasat University (TU) has been condemned by a group of TU lecturers who claim his order to close down the university for 3 days was unreasonable. The order was said to show support for the anti-government group who had called for a strike by the public sector to cripple the government.&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">All free TV channels, except government's NBT, relayed the signals from anti-government Blue Sky channel during protest leader Suthep Thuagsuban reading an important statement of the day.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Suthep said the free TV stations had "cooperated" to relay the signal with "good understanding."&nbsp;</span></div> <div> </div>

<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">Two pro-government red-shirt supporters were shot dead on Sunday early morning while 45 were reportedly injured from the clashes between the pro and anti-government protesters on Ramkhamhaeng road. The former victim who was killed by bullet was reportedly a Ramkhamhaeng University student. This added to the total death toll of three people.&nbsp;</span></div> <div> </div>

<div>The red shirt leaders announced to end their pro-government rally at Rajamangala stadium this morning, after violent shooting and clashes between the anti-government groups and the red shirt caused at least two deaths and ten injured. &nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<div> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.125;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e97cb79-ac59-150c-8cb4-7a098c14e2fd"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At around 11 p.m., the Facebook page "Policespokesman," believed to be the official Facebook page of a spokesman of the Royal Thai Police, revealed that one person was killed while five were injured by bullets during clashes in front of Rajamangala Stadium on Ramkhamhaeng Road on Saturday evening.</span></span></p> </div>

<div>Tension near the pro-government Red shirt rally on Ramkhamhaeng road has escalated after one was killed and at least three were injured in hours-long confrontation between red-shirt supporters and anti-government protesters.&nbsp;</div> <div> </div>

<div> <div><span style="font-size: 12px;">Suthep Thaugsuban, leader of the anti-government protests, said he rejects all kind of dialogue with the government until the “Thaksin regime” is completely eliminated.&nbsp;</span></div> </div>

<div>Group of academics on Thursday called on the government to resolve the current conflict by holding referendum to amend the constitution, and dissolve the parliament, paving the way for new election.&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">Leading Opposition Democrat Party Abhisit Vejjajiva on Thursday said since the government has lost legitimacy to rule, it should “show responsibility.”&nbsp;</span></div> <p></p>

<p>Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinwatra said in a televised address at 2 pm on Thursday that the anti-government protesters’ proposal to establish a “People’s Assembly” is impossible under the constitution and also offered to hold peace talks with protest leaders.</p> <p></p>