<p>Southeast Asian studies expert, historian and former rector of Thammasat University Charnvit Kasetsiri talks to The Nation&#39;s Pravit Rojanaphruk about the feud between Thailand and Cambodia over Preah Vihear Temple that is threatening to turn ugly.</p>

<p>Several Malaysian non-government organizations (NGOs) are up in arms<br /> over what they claim as the government&#39;s continuous invoking of laws<br /> to criminalize free expression.</p>

<p><span>Chaiyan Ratchakul, History Department, Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University, talked to Prachatai about the PAD&rsquo;s &lsquo;new politics&rsquo;. </span></p>

<p><span>&ldquo;To transcend nationalist history, one needs to nurture the seeds of humanism, rather than nationalism. <span>&nbsp;</span>Nation is fake. <span>&nbsp;</span>The notion that one speaks the same language and belongs to the same nation is false. <span>&nbsp;</span>But humans are real. <span>&nbsp;</span>All human beings, regardless of language and religion are fellow beings in suffering!&rdquo;</span></p>

<p class="subhead">Imam Yapa, a 56-year-old Muslim religious leader, was tortured and illed by soldiers during an interrogation session on March 20 and 21,<br />2008, at the camp of the Army&rsquo;s 39th Taskforce in Rue Soh district, in outhern Narathiwrat province. And Cross Cultural Foundation also sent report on the recently inquest trial </p>

<p>Leaders of the separatist insurgency in southern Thailand must end the targeting of civilians in their effort to establish an independent state, Human Rights Watch sai. </p>

<p>With one month remaining until the much-anticipated start of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, I ask you to take five steps toward the &ldquo;development of human rights&rdquo; pledged by the Beijing Olympics Bid Committee in 2001. Over the last year Amnesty International has collected hundreds of thousands of voices from around the world echoing this call. I join them in urging you to take this historic opportunity to act.</p>

<p><span>MSF hands over it&#39;s HIV/AIDS activities in Kuchinarai to the local authorities.&nbsp;&nbsp;After more than six years supporting HIV/AIDS care in Kuchinarai district, Kalasin province, M&eacute;decins Sans Fronti&egrave;res (MSF) is today leaving the district. </span></p>

<p><span>The Matichon online website has reported that on 30 June at the Central Administrative Court, South Sathorn Road, Mr. Suwat Apaipak, a lawyer, authorized his personal lawyer, Mrs. Atchara Saekao to file a complaint to the court to issue a warrant against Assoc. Prof. Dr. Worachet Pakeerut (Head of the Public Law Department, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University), Ms. Chiranuch Premchaiporn (Prachatai website manager), and Mr. Chuwat Rerksirisuk (Prachatai website editor). The charge calls for the three persons to be punished for violating the jurisdiction of the court.</span></p>

<p><span>More than 20 participants come from networks in various provinces with the objective of developing skills in news gathering and dissemination through various media to people in areas facing problems from energy development plans, especially through the internet, which opens many opportunities to create their own space.</span></p>

<p><span>Charoen Wat-aksorn</span><span>, together with the Bo Nok-Hin Krud villagers, had been struggling against the power plant project of the Gulf Power Generation Company in Prachuab Kiri Khan Province. <span>&nbsp;</span>In the end, the government had to halt the project. <span>&nbsp;</span>Then he and the villagers joined together in a struggle against a business which had trespassed on public land to build shrimp farms. This campaign was to protect the collective rights of the villagers. </span></p>

<p><span>On 19 June at 6.09 pm, a gathering of about fifteen individuals at the Siam Centre mall near BTS Siam Station was seen holding placards on political issues. <span>&nbsp;</span>They claimed to be a group of people with diverse views, not related to any political group.</span></p>