<p>Pravit Rojanaphruk, reporter for the Nation, has written about the response he got from a senior journalist, famed for his investigative work, when he tried to investigate the reported dismissal of editors at Matichon.</p>

<p><div>After asking the court to extend the deadline for appealing for one month, the public prosecutor decided not to appeal on Suwicha's case. &nbsp;Chiranuch is to hear whether she will be prosecuted on June 26.</div> </p>

<p><div>On May 30, Dr Sumet Tantivejkul, Secretary-General of the <a href="http://www.chaipat.or.th/chaipat/index.html">Chaipattana Foundation</a>, was a keynote speaker on &lsquo;Monarchy and Buddhism&rsquo; in a workshop of the Project of Reconciliation for National Security and Buddhism at Buddhamonthon, Nakhon Pathom, speaking to an audience of 50 monks and 150 people.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div>

<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">On May 29, veteran award-winning writer Wat Wallayangkur, speaking in a public forum on poetry and freedom held at the Oct 14 Memorial, said that he had been informally asked to resign from the Nai Intr Award Committee after many years of doing the job.</span></p>

<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">The Pridi-Phoonsuk Banomyong e-Library and <a href="http://www.pridi-phoonsuk.org/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;color:#946C31">www.pridi-phoonsuk.org</span></a> have been launched to provide the public with access to works and material relevant to the 1932 revolutionary Pridi Banomyong and his wife Phoonsuk.</span></p>

<p>There are several Internet users who have been charged for violating the Computer-related Crime Act of B.E. 2550 since it was enacted in June 18, 2007. Most charges are based on an obscure legislation that leads to unclear interpretation and implementation of the Act. Consequently, netizens are put into the climate of fear.</p>

<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">On May 17, Justice Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga launched his &lsquo;Volunteers to Protect Justice&rsquo; initiative to organize and train people to inform the authorities on corruption and l&egrave;se majest&eacute; cases.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva presided over the event and was registered as the first volunteer.</span></p>

<p><a href="http://www.manager.co.th/Politics/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9520000056841">Manager Online</a> reported that on May 21 Post Today daily reported on its second page that Thanpuying Mom Rajawongse Busba Kitiyakara Sathanapong held a banquet among close friends as a moral support for Thanpuying Viraya Chavakul at JW Marriott Hotel on May 14.</p> <p>Matichon also published a photo of the event on its page 4 on the same day.</p>

<p>On May 21, INN News reported that according to Pol Col Sompoch Sonkanok, superintendent at Mae Rim Police Station in Chiang Mai, local police have issued an arrest warrant for Kokaew Pikulthong, a red-shirt leader, charging him with l&egrave;se majest&eacute; offence for his speech to the red-shirt rally on March 22 at Chiang Mai&rsquo;s 700^th year Stadium.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Pol Col Sompoch said that police were also investigating whether what Thaksin Shinnawatra had said in his phone-in during the same rally constituted the same offence or not.</p>

<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; ">We, the undersigned, are alarmed to hear that Sa La Hin, 26, and Thang Hoih Ping, 21, two Burmese migrants, have died in the Malaysia&rsquo;s Juru Immigration Detention Centre from Leptospirosis. This is disease that is usually caused by exposure to water contaminated with the urine of infected animals, such as rodents, cattle, pigs, horses, dogs and wild animals.</p>

<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; ">Oxfam GB, CARE, and ActionAid on behalf of Bangkok<span>&nbsp;</span>Development Forum in cooperation with Institute for<span>&nbsp;</span>Human Development<span>&nbsp;(New Delhi)</span>&nbsp;will organise a a&nbsp;<span>regional&nbsp;</span>panel discussion<span>&nbsp;</span>on<strong>'Global Economic Crisis and Implications for<span>&nbsp;</span>Developing Countries'</strong>&nbsp;on Saturday 30th May, at&nbsp;<span>Panorama Room,&nbsp;</span>Amari<span>&nbsp;</span>Boulevard Hotel,</p>

<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Please join the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and friends on Monday 25 May at 6pm in front of the building of the Sri Lankan embassy at Ocean Tower 2, 75/6-7 Sukhumvit Soi 19 for a peace vigil organized in remembrance of the lost lives during the conflict between the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).</p>