<p>Some 30,000 red shirts occupied half of Sanam Luang yesterday evening in a rally to remind Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva that they remained a threat to the coalition government.</p>

<p>A defence lawyer for alleged lese majeste offender Daranee Charncherngsilpakul expressed concern yesterday that his client may suffer a negative outcome because she faces a closed-door trial.</p>

<p>A little over a week ago, the Bangkok Post reported that a special inquiry unit under Thailand&rsquo;s Justice Ministry had asked the public prosecutor to lodge charges against six police officers for allegedly torturing a man in their custody.</p>

<p>Rights group Amnesty International urged Thailand on Friday to open the trial of a political campaigner charged with insulting the monarchy after it was closed for reasons of &quot;national security.&quot;</p>

<p><strong>Get to know Thai history and Pridi, a 'Great Commoner' via the web</strong></p> <p>Libraries in famous universities worldwide are usually safe havens for rare historical information. Occasionally you are bound to find a gem or biographical work concerning the life of an important Thai individual who played a role in the history of Thailand. All of this is kept within the confines of a library outside of Thailand. So, how many Thais will be able to access this information?</p>

<p>The launch of Thai Red News, a weekly pro-Thaksin Shinawatra and pro-red-shirt Democratic Alliance Against Dictatorship (DAAD) newspaper less than three weeks ago made sure that discourse on real versus fake mass media keeps continuing.</p> <p>This writer interviewed Thai Red News editor and DAAD leader Somyos Pruksakasemsuk on Monday and he did not seem too comfortable with the subject. First, he half jokingly said</p> <p>Thai Red News was simply &quot;fake media&quot;, but when prodded further, he retorted: &quot;Tell me which [Thai mainstream media] is ethical?&quot;</p>

<p>When angry demonstrators recently took to the streets in Iran, the seething masses claiming that they had been robbed of true democracy recalled recent protest scenes in Thailand. An obvious and dangerous trend in international politics is that when any demagogue-type politician wins a landslide election, the opposition claims vote fraud and in many cases sends its supporters into the streets to stir unrest.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Removed. &nbsp;Sorry.</p>

<p>An Italian court has delayed a case against search giant Google, which could have major ramifications for content providers around the globe.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; ">At the heart of the case is a debate about how much responsibility providers have for the content on their sites.</p>

<p>A Thai judge citing reasons of national security closed the trial on Tuesday of a &quot;red shirt&quot; supporter of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra charged with insulting the monarchy.</p>

<p>Stories about violent hazing and initiation rites should hardly come as a surprise to people, because similar things seem to be happening in other realms of Thai society as well. If anything, people should be more concerned about certain practices and questionable laws in Thailand.</p>

<p><div>Oraya Sutabutr, a 40-year-old lecturer in English literature at Thammasat University, has become better known of late as a leading advocate against noise pollution in Bangkok. She&rsquo;s written a spate of articles that have been published in both Thai and English-language newspapers and which list 10 noisiest and quietest places in Bangkok. These have attracted a fair amount of attention, prompting readers to e-mail their thanks her for the information. One fan, she said, even asked for the permission to have an article translated into French.</div> </p>