<p>Painters, poets, singers, photographers, dramatists, authors, film-makers, musicians, and other artists are targeted because of their art and creation: they are silenced and censored through imprisonment, harassment, intimidation, and in the worse cases, killed. </p>

<p align="left">Speakers at the XVII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008) today underscored the importance of simultaneously scaling up AIDS programmes and strengthening health systems in poor countries, emphasizing that the two goals should be viewed as allies, not adversaries.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Afflictions, fearfulness and dispirited living under political suppression which have been continued for 20 years or more in Myanmar are the </span><span>manifestation</span><span> </span><span>of the fact that we are hopeless for human rights development in Myanmar </span><span>as</span><span> SPDC has tried to present to international community.</span></p>

<p>Today, George W. Bush the President of United States of America speaks at Queen Sirikit Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand. Find the transcript of his speech as following.</p>

<p>Reporters covering the aftermath of Monday&#39;s attack on a border police outpost in Kashgar have been detained, beaten, and harassed, according to international news reports.</p>

<p><span>A web-board user has been accused of l&egrave;se majest&eacute; by another user in a popular Thai internet forum, <a href="http://www.pantip.com/">www.pantip.com</a>, after they had a petty argument about the latter&rsquo;s published works that are on sale at Princess Sirindhorn&rsquo;s Phufa shops.</span></p>

<p><span>25 years into the AIDS epidemic, only 1 in 20 men who have sex with men (MSM) have access to HIV prevention programmes; 91 out of 128 low- and middle- income countries fail to report on access for MSM to HIV prevention programmes (1), experts told at the XVII International AIDS Conference. Homophobia, criminalization, social hostility and human rights abuses preventing access to prevention programmes</span></p>

<p><span>ASEAN human rights organisations are gathering today for a comprehensive and strategic consultation on how to ensure independent and effective regional human rights mechanism will be put up by the High Level Panel established by the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). </span></p>

<p><span>Today 1800 trade unionists marched to German embassy in Bangkok to submit an open letter to the Government of Germany. The letter titled &#39;Unfair Labour Practices of German MNCs in Thailand&#39;.</span></p>

<p>A reporter for a local Thai-language daily and TV station was shot dead inside his own house on August 1 in Nakorn Si Thammarat province.</p>

<p><span>On July 31, about 400 Triumph labour union members protested against Body Fashion (Thailand) Ltd at its headquarters on Petchaburi Rd in Bangkok, after the company fired the leader of the union for wearing a campaign t-shirt challenging the l&egrave;se majest&eacute; law.</span></p>

<p><span>Sondhi Limthongkul, leader of the People&rsquo;s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), took to the stage to address the crowd rallying near Government House in Bangkok, and proposed his own way of solving the dispute by force.</span></p>