<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma">On Jan 25, negotiations between Hoya Company and its workers took place at the Office of Labour Welfare and Protection in Lamphun.<span>&nbsp; </span>Four more demands were settled in the late afternoon, and all 13 demands that were agreed were written down as an employment agreement. </span></p>

<p><span>The </span><span>gunner is identified but his whereabouts are not clear. Other opposition leaders flee after receiving death threats from local mafia.</span></p>

<p>On Jan 24, supporters of Sahaviriya's smelting plant clashed with the Mae Ramphueng conservation group at the construction site in Bang Saphan district, Prachuab Khiri Khan, when the conservation group was trying to prevent subcontractors from digging drainage ditches. One supporter was killed by a gunshot, and four opponents injured.</p>

<p>They were charged with being the leaders of a demonstration last year which invaded parliament, calling for the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) to end deliberation of laws that would have a grave impact on people&#39;s freedom and liberty such as the Internal Security Act. During the activists&#39; appearance before the police at police headquarters, about 100 people were present to give support. </p>

<p>AJI ended 2007 deeply concerned with the rising violence against<br />journalists and with the trend of increasing prosecution of journalists by<br />government and the community.</p>

<p>The Burmese military junta has put up another hurdle for<br />Internet users in Burma by blocking the website <a href="http://www.blogger.com/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank">http://www.blogger.com/</a>.</p>

<p>On 14 January 2008 after Metropolitan Police Headquarters pressed charges against 10 key activists of trespassing in parliament on 12 December 2007. On that date there was a demonstration calling on the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) to halt consideration of a number of laws that were seen to support the abuse of human rights. </p>

<p><span>Thai Public Broadcasting Service (TPBS) first went on air on Jan 17. Prachatai interviewed ML Nattakorn Devakula, a news anchor on Channel 11.</span></p>

<p>A recommendation made by the Chairperson of the Presidential Transition Team to bring the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) under the immediate control of the President threatens the independence of this commission.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association condemn the recent sanctions taken by the military government&#39;s censorship board against the Burmese-language edition of the<em> Myanmar Times</em> weekly, which was ordered to suppress its next issue for carrying a report about an increase in the price of satellite dish licences (<a href="http://www.mmtimes.com/no400/n006.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.mmtimes.com/no400/n006.htm</a>) in its 11 January issue.</p>

<p>The circumstance will be remembered surrounding the brutal slaying of Phra Supoj Suwajo, the activist monk of the Buddhadasa Study Group and the abbot of the Suan Metta Dhamma Meditation Centre, Ban Huai Ngu, Sansai Subdistrict, Fang District, Chiang Mai Province, who was killed on 17 June 2005. This case has aroused continuing public interest.</p>

<p><span>Well-known social critic Sulak Sivaraksa, author of the banned book &lsquo;Almost a Century of Thorn-filled Thai Democracy', will </span><span>lodge a court case against the Special Branch Police Commander and the Interior Minister at the Central Administrative Court today (Jan 16).</span></p>