<p><font size="2">Two leading news organizations of Burmese exiles reported persistent and severe attacks on their respective online servers this past week.</font></p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black">Such decision with the reference number 32 COM 8B.102 by the World Heritage Committee at its 32^{<span style="position: relative; top: -5pt">nd </span>}Session in Quebec City, Canada, has clearly contravened the noble purpose of the UN Charter in promoting the development of friendly relations among nations</span></font></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country&rsquo;s human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, said Amnesty International in a new report published today, marking the 10 day countdown to the Games. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana">ANFREL appreciates the peaceful polling and counting on 27^th July, 2008.<span>&nbsp; </span>Observers would like to express their gratitude to all polling officers who worked hard until the end of counting and thank to all security officers who secured all ballot boxes and assure a good quality electoral environment. </span></p>

<p><font size="2">The Burmese Ministry of Information censored an 80-page article about prominent Burmese journalist Oway U Nyo Mya in Padaukpwinthit&#39; magazine.</font></p>

<p><font size="2">Investigate Violence by Pro-Government Group. </font>Thai authorities should ensure that opposition political rallies are protected from attack by pro-government groups, Human Rights Watch said.</p>

<p><font><font size="2">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.</font></font></p>

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<p><font size="2">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.</font></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma;">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><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma">&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></font></p>

<p class="subhead"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">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 </font></p>