By Thaweeporn Kummetha |
<p>Officers fighting cyber crime should not target intermediaries such as Internet service providers, webmasters and search engines because it is ineffective and allows real criminal to get undetected, hurting the economy and the community, according to the Thai Netizen Network (TNN).</p>
By Sebastian Strangio, The Phnom Penh Post |
<p>Though the Thai government regularly invokes its royalty-protecting regulation, Cambodia's king and govt have taken a laid-back approach.</p>
<p>Can you get in trouble for insulting the Cambodian King? Under Thailand's notorious lese majeste laws, one can be jailed for failing to stand up for the national anthem or publicly criticising the monarchy. </p>
By Sanitsuda Ekachai, Bangkok Post |
<p>The very same week the Abhisit government promised that the progressive property tax would take effect next year, a group of 200 landless villagers in Chaiyaphum province moved into a state-owned eucalyptus plantation to reclaim the land that was once theirs.</p>
By Supalak Ganjanakhundee, The Nation |
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<div>Phuket - The planned Asean human-rights commission was challenged yesterday on its ability to protect the basic rights of people in the region as it has no power to take action against violations in member countries.</div>
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By The Nation |
<p>Lee Myung-bak's conservative government is damaging everything the people have fought for. </p>
<p>The sudden resignation of Ahn Kyong-whan, chairman of the Nation Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK), has signalled another disturbing sign about the state of democracy and human rights in South Korea. Ahn resigned after enduring more than a year of pressure from the conservative government of President Lee Myung-bak, which tried to downsize the human-rights body and place it under the direct control of the president's office itself.</p>
By Sen Lam, ABC Radio Australia |
<p>Two Australian academics want a baby elephant to be named after a political prisoner in Thailand, as a way to draw attention to his case.</p>
By Julian Hopkins |
<p><em><a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); " href="http://www.gerakbudaya.com/products-page/asian-studies/blogging-and-democratization-in-malaysia-a-new-civil-society-in-the-making/">Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia: A New Civil Society in the Making</a></em> is the first book to discuss blogging in Malaysia in detail. It draws upon a survey completed in late 2006, interviews and observations, and it is a unique record of the early moments of social-political blogging in Malaysia. There is also a timely postscript to the book that discusses the overall impact of blogging on the ‘political tsunami’ of the Malaysian general elections in 2008.</p>
By Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation |
<p>At a recent lunch meeting to update a Western diplomat on the state of Thai politics and democracy, this writer was asked what he thought of this and that general - and what were their relations with Army Chief General Anupong Paochinda?</p>
By International Federation for Human Rights |
<div>All individuals interviewed and organisations met by FIDH unanimously converge to consider that the lèse-majesté crime is being used by the current government against political opponents in a much more systematic way than used to be the case in the past. Protecting the image of the King serves today as a pretext to stife political dissents. Furthermore, FIDH fears that lèse-majesté may have a broader chilling effect on intellectuals, academics and civil society actors at large. </div>
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By Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation |
<p>For the first time in its five-decade history, the whole board of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) has been accused of committing lese majeste, a crime with a maximum jail sentence of 15 years.</p>
By Pravit Rojanaphruk |
<p>The Centre for People Missing During the April Demonstration - set up by the Student Federation of Thailand (SFT) - has closed down: all six people whom relatives reported as missing have been found and returned home. </p>
By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Thaweeporn Kummetha, The Nation |
<p>Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, a leader of the Democratic Alliance Against Dictatorship and editor of the new Thai Red News weekly newspaper, isn't your typical red-shirt chieftain.</p>
<p>While denying he's ever received money from former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, Somyot is quick to add that he wouldn't mind getting some.<br />
"I'd like some of Thaksin's money if he's willing! I don't know why he won't give me any. I think he only gives it to his cronies.</p>