<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt">A peaceful and democratic solution is urgently needed if Thailand is </span><span>to step back from its political crisis.</span></font></p>

<p><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma">In the occasion of the International Peace Day, we, 85 Cambodian and Thai civil society actors have convened at the conference in Aranyapratet, Kingdom of Thailand, and Poipet, Kingdom of Cambodia, in order to explore ways in which the civil societies of both countries can work together to prevent the conflict over the issue of Preah Vihear</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 13px" class="Apple-style-span">On 22^nd&nbsp;May 1958, the Government of India promulgated an ordinance called the Armed Forces Special Powers Ordinance to meet the challenges of an extraordinary situation arising out of the assertions of the Naga tribes in the then Naga Hills of Assam and parts of the then North Eastern Frontier Agency (NEFA).</span></p>

<p>Malaysia sentenced to two years&#39; imprisonment a prominent blogger&nbsp;who had been charged under the tough Internal Security Act (ISA),&nbsp;media reports said.</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 13px" class="Apple-style-span">Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association are overjoyed by today&#39;s release of leading Burmese journalist U Win Tin after 19 years in detention. He emerged from Insein prison still dressed in prisoner clothes after benefiting from an amnesty announced by the military government for thousands of detainees ahead of elections promised for 2010.<br /></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">A case was filed by Mr. Chotisak On-soong and Ms. Chutima Penpak against Mr. Nawamin Wittayakul</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">on charges concerning an act of violence not amounting to bodily or mental harm to the other person; insulting a person in his presence; mischief; an offence committed with the participation of five or more persons to compel another person to do or not to do any act; and quarrelling noisily in a public way or place.</span></p>

<p><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px" class="Apple-style-span">On the eve of the first anniversary of the week-long Saffron evolution, the websites of three leading Burmese news agencies in exile have come under attack, rendering them inaccessible since the afternoon of September 17.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">The 46-day work stoppage by the Triumph International (Thailand) Labour Union ended after negotiations between the Labour union with Body Fashion (Thailand) Co. Ltd, which produces women&rsquo;s underwear and swimwear. The two sides agreed that both sides will abide by the ruling of the court and that the company will not object to a petition to the court to reopen the case. It will be known on 23 September 2008 whether or not the court will reconsider the case.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">The People&rsquo;s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) has been gathering continuously to protect the Constitution to prevent it from being used as a tool in laundering the wrongdoings of Thaksin Shinawatra and his associates, to eradicate the Thaksin regime, to chase out the proxy government, and to pave the way for new politics in the Kingdom of Thailand.</font></p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Australian author <strong class="spip">Harry Nicolaides</strong>, who has been held since 31 August on a lese-majeste charge over a passage in his <a href="http://www.akha.org/content/bookreviews/verisimilitude.html" class="spip_out">2005 novel <em class="spip">Verisimilitude</em> that criticises the king&rsquo;s eldest son, Bhumibol Adulyadej,</a> issued a public apology during a meeting with Reporters Without Borders in Bangkok&rsquo;s main prison.</font> </p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Thai media associations are bracing against a government declaration of a state of emergency in Bangkok, saying certain aspects of the declaration could undermine press freedom, free expression, and access to information.</font></p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">The Thai government should remove restrictions on free speech contained in today&rsquo;s emergency decree, Amnesty International said. </span></font></p>