<div> <div>Full video clips from the public forum on 'Thailand and The United States After 180 Years:&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12px;">A Changing Alliance in A Changing Southeast Asia,' featured Kavi&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Chongkittavorn,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">John J. Brandon,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Titipol Phakdeewanich and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Thitinan Pongsudhirak.</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div> </div> <div> </div>

<p>On 13 Sept, Ishmael Hayiwaeji, editor of the news website <a href="http://www.wartani.org/">Wartani</a> based in Pattani, filed a complaint with police after he was visited at home by a group of men who he believed were plainclothes officials.</p> <p></p>

<div>The criminal court today dismissed the case against Yutthapoom (last name withheld), 37-year-old man who was accused by his own brother for violating lèse majesté law, known as Article 112 of the criminal code. The court said the evidence was not substantial.</div> <div> </div>

<div>Local NGO iLaw and Movie Audience Network have organized a film competition to defy the problematic 2007 Film and Video Act that critics say creates censorship in the film industry.&nbsp;</div> <div> </div>

<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">The rehabilitation of the marine eco-system at Koh Samet - partly affected by the recent oil spill by PTT Global Chemical - is still on-going and will take months.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>But there was never a chance of a boycott of PTT products by a large sector of the Thai population, even though they were appalled by the company's actions and handling of the incident. </div>

<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">The 3rd Parliamentary Delegation to visit Lao PDR during 25-7 August over the enforced disappearance last December of noted activist Sombath Somphone reported in a press conference at the FCCT that there was no new information, with the official investigation going nowhere and the Lao government still in denial.</span></div> <p></p>

<p>Initiative aims to reduce post harvest and consumer food waste</p> <p></p>

<div>A draft amendment of Article 37 of the 2008 Broadcasting Act, aimed at prohibiting the broadcast of content undermining ‘national security’, the ‘constitutional monarchy system of government’, and ‘public morality’, is now undergoing public hearings while receiving wide opposition.</div> <div> </div>

<div>Asia Books, Thailand’s largest English language bookstore, on Thursday withdrew from their bookshelves two academic titles on Thai history, citing “political sensitivity.” The books concern the history of the 1932 revolution and the controversial relationship between King Rama VI and his palace servants.&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<div> <div><span style="font-size: 12px;">The South Bangkok Criminal Court ruled that six persons died in Wat Pathum Wanaram during May 2010 political violence were shot by the soldiers; five were shot by the soldiers situated on the BTS sky train track while the other one was shot by soldiers stationed on Rama I Rd.&nbsp;</span></div> </div>

<p>(London, 26/07/2013) Gary Bolton, the former director of Global Technical Ltd and maker of the GT200 'remote substance detector', was found guilty on two counts of fraud at the Central Criminal Court ('Old Bailey') in London on Friday afternoon. At the end of a three week trial, the jury reached a majority verdict of 11–1, declaring him guilty of both manufacturing and supplying a device in the course of fraud between January 2007 and July 2012.</p> <p></p>

<div>Bundit Aneeya, a 73-year-old freelance writer and translator, is to face the final verdict of the Supreme Court in his lèse majesté case in August. He was sentenced to four years in March 2006 for defaming the monarchy by distributing politics-related documents at an academic seminar. </div>