<p><font size="2">Thailand&#39;s Interior Minister is under fire for moving to pull a private television channel off of cable networks nationwide. Cable operators, opposition senators, and free expression advocate are calling a directive by Interior Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung&nbsp; which media reports says threaten cable operators with imprisonment unless they pull the plug on cable channel ASTV illegal and unconstitutional.</font></p>

<p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma; color: black">&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black">On 4 June 2008, the Democracy for a Welfare State Group, Midnight University, and various Chiang Mai-based civil society organizations jointly organized a seminar on the Thai political crisis, coup d&rsquo;&eacute;tat, and solutions at the 4th floor Meeting Room, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">This 17 June 2008 will be the three years anniversary of the murder of Phra Supoj Suwajo. <span>&nbsp;</span>Phra Kittisak Kittisophano, the President of the Metta Dharmmaraksa Foundation and the Coordinator of the Friends of Phra Supoj Suwajo Network revealed that although it has been three years since Phra Supoj was murdered, the case has not made much progress despite that attention that the media and national and international human rights organizations had given to the case.</span></p>

<p> Police official files two criminal complaints against BBC journalist for &quot;insulting the monarchy&quot;</font></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">On the afternoon of 4 June 2008, a demonstration of the &ldquo;Anti-Coup d&rsquo;&Eacute;tat People&rsquo;s Forum&rdquo; attracted hundreds of demonstrators. Mr. Surachai Danwattananusorn, or Surachai Sae-Dan, president of the group, said that the convening of this forum came from the discussion held on 27 May among different groups that formerly constituted the Democratic Alliance against Dictatorship (DAAD). </span></p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the way police<br /> officers manhandled, detained and threatened writer and press freedom<br /> activist Liu Xiaobo on the evening of 4 June 2008 as he was leaving his<br /> Beijing home with his wife, Liu Xia, to go and have dinner at someone<br /> else&#39;s home.</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that Zarganar, a famous comedian in Burma who has been leading some of the relief efforts after Cyclone Nargis, had his house searched and was taken away last night, June 4.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black">According to the latest information, 78,000 people have died since Cyclone Nargis hit Burma in the morning of May 3^rd 2008, over 55,000 people are still missing and 2.4 million people have lost their livelihoods. Three weeks after the cyclone hit, less than half the people affected have received any assistance and those in the worst affected areas have received no assistance whatsoever.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma">Prapart Pintobtang, lecturer at Chulalongkorn&rsquo;s Political Science Faculty and advisor to the Assembly of the Poor, speaks frankly about the latest moves by the People&rsquo;s Alliance for Democracy (PAD).<span> </span>Years of having supported the causes of the poor have made him no stranger at all to some PAD leading members who are from the so-called &lsquo;people&rsquo;s sector&rsquo;.<span> </span>Yet, finally, he touches on issues which in the past couple of years have become acrimonious among NGOs and people&rsquo;s movements, and on which many &lsquo;people&rsquo;s sector&rsquo; insiders have chosen to have reservations.<span> <br /></span></span></p>

<p><font size="2"> A Singaporean-US lawyer has been charged in a Singapore<br /> court for allegedly insulting a judge in emails and his blog, wire reports<br /> say.</font></p>

<p><font><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="border-collapse: collapse">Below is a statement from the BBC&#39;s Asia Bureau Editor Paul Danahar, to allegations of </span></font></font><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma">l&egrave;se majest&eacute;</span><font><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="border-collapse: collapse"> made against the BBC&#39;s South East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head by Lieutenant Colonel Watanasak Mungkijakandee to the Crime Suppression Division of the Royal Thai Police on Friday 30 May 2008.</span></font></font></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma;">Thanks to the allegation made by the Democrat Party, Prachatai has explored the websites, including its own, alleged to have l&egrave;se majest&eacute; content, and has found that almost none of them websites have anything to do with l&egrave;se majest&eacute;.<span> </span>Instead, it turns out that most of them are not in favour of the Democrat Party itself.</span></p>