<p>On Jan 13, Natural Resources Ministry inspectors Porntip Pancharoen and Nisanat Sathirakul visited the controversial Bang Saphan District for the first time in a year after the Mae Ramphueng Conservation Group had called on state agencies to look into land documents issued for the site of Sahaviriya Steel Group's planned smelting plant.</p>

<p>Centre for Democratization Studies of the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Chiang Mai University, issued a statement regarding the election results. The statement demands that the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) cease issuing yellow and red cards immediately and respect the results of the people&#39;s vote in those provinces. </p>

<p><span>On Jan 11, Thairath online reported the</span><span> shut down of the website, finding the accounts by the people involved were not coherent. </span></p>

<p>The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) will observe re-elections in Thailand issued after candidates were disqualified for election violations by the Election Commission of Thailand. </p>

<p><span>On Jan 9, Hoya workers gather</span><span>ed again in the late afternoon after work to hear the results of the new round of negotiations between their representatives and company executives which had started at 2 pm. About 1,800 of them included </span><span>the day shift who skipped overtime, and the night shift who were due to work from 8.30 pm.</span></p>

<p>9 Jan 2008 At Metropolitan Police Headquarters, Deputy Metropolitan Police Commander Pol Maj Gen Jate Mongkolhattee, in his capacity as leader of the investigating team, called a 2-hour meeting to follow up on progress in the case of the group who climbed the fence of parliament on 12 December 007 to call for the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) to halt deliberations.</p>

<p><span>Before the embattled TITV could turn into a public </span><span>television station, or officially the Thai Public Broadcasting Service (TPBS) under the government's Public Relations Department (PRD), one of its scheduled programmes - a taped interview of ousted PM Thaksin Shinnawatra - was banned. Many are now concerned as to how a &lsquo;public' TV station could really exist with such interference. </span></p>

<p>Mr Suttipong Teppitak, Deputy Governor for Policy and Planning at the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) said in an interview that plans to build 4 more coal-fired power plants would emphasize public relations at the school level. This may create opposition in the community.</p>

<p>The Missing Persons Information Centre to Combat Human Trafficking of the Mirror Foundation issued a statement on Children&#39;s Day calling on government agencies and the media to give importance to the urgent matter of missing children and to tackle the problem seriously.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders condemns the sudden closure of the political news magazine <a href="http://www.sameskybooks.org/"><em>Fah Diew Kan</em>&#39;s website</a> (http://www.sameskybooks.org), which has been accused by the information ministry of lese majeste.</p>

<p><span>The </span><span>Fah Diew Kan (Same Sky) publishing house website was shut down on the night of Jan 4 by its hosting server.</span></p>

<p>The website for Same Sky Books, publisher of Fah Diew Kan, a magazine of Thai contemporary criticism, has been shut down by Thailand&#39;s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology. The reasons given werelese-majeste comments posted to Same Sky&#39;s public Webboard.</p>