<p><span>Hundreds of southern insurgent suspects detained in military bases for occupational training programmes and banned from returning home by order of the 4</span>^{<span>th</span>}<span> Army Commander, finally came home and met their families after the ban order was lifted.</span></p>

<p>Montri Im-ake of San Pa Tong community radio FM 89.00MHz in Chiang Mai told Prachatai of an order by the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) banning the use of Karen language in community radios near the Thai-Burma border for fear of communicating sensitive information concerning recent unrest inside Burma.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders notes that cable TV operators have<br />resumed distribution of the Pakistani television channels Aaj TV and Dawn<br />TV and two foreign news channels, BBC and CNN.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders hailed the<br />announcement that the United States Internet company Yahoo! has settled a<br />Californian lawsuit brought by the families of journalist Shi Tao and<br />pro-democracy activist and blogger Wang Xiaoning, who were convicted and<br />imprisoned on information which Yahoo! gave the Chinese authorities.</p>

<p><span>Security expert</span><span> warns that Thai society has summoned a genie and is unable to put it back into the lamp. </span></p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, continued today with his agenda in &nbsp;Nay Pyi Taw.</font></p>

<p>CPJ expressed alarm that the government&#39;s plan, which includes amassing records<br />of thousands of foreign journalists seeking Olympics accreditation, is a<br />pretext to block critical reporters from covering the Games.</p>

<p>A Woman Detainee Suffered from Heart Attack, Two NLD Leaders Sentenced , Recent arrests of monk, NLD-members and Karenni villagers.</p>

<p>Journalists in Pakistan have set up coordinating committees in cities<br />across the country to maintain their opposition to emergency decrees issued<br />by President Pervez Musharraf on 3 November.</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma;">"We used the Computer Crime Act, because we didn't want to use a more serious law," said Pol Col Yanapol Yangyeun, Commander of the IT Crime Office of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) under the Ministry of Justice, during a seminar on Thailand's relatively new computer crime law on Nov 8, 2007.</span></p>

<p>Thousands of Malaysians joined a peaceful rally on 10 November 2007<br />organised by BERSIH, the coalition of 67 civil society groups and<br />five opposition political parties, to demand for electoral reforms.</p>

<p>A Joint Statement from a group of NGOs that attended the seventh International Colloquium on Human Rights in Sao Paolo, Brazil, organised by NGO Conectas</p>