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19 Jun 2007
According to an article in The Nation newspaper of June 12, the attorney general of Thailand has proposed to increase the powers of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) under the justice ministry so that the department could overrule the public prosecutor in cases where the latter decides not to go to court on the basis of its inquiries.
16 Jun 2007
BANGKOK, Jun 15 (IPS) - The soldiers assigned to provide security for students and teachers at a school in the violence-torn southern province of Yala on Friday were part of a new plan by the military-appointed government in Bangkok. But they never made it.
16 Jun 2007
BANGKOK, Jun 14 (IPS) - A chat room on a popular Thai-language website is drawing visitors over a troubling question: Will ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra be assassinated when he returns home?
15 Jun 2007
A new surge of violent attacks on teachers and schools by separatist militants has seriously disrupted education in Thailand's southern border provinces, Human Rights Watch said today.
15 Jun 2007
Pharmaceutical company Abbott decided to sue PLWAs group Act Up-Paris in response to the April 26th, 2007 netstrike we organized against the drug manufacturer
15 Jun 2007
Following repeated threats by ministers and members of Parliamentover the past three years to control online content, the Malaysiangovernment is setting up a task force to look into applyingexisting legislation on the new media without contravening thecountry's Bill of Guarantee against Internet censorship.
14 Jun 2007
MEXICO CITY, Jun 13 (IPS) - Large developing nations like China, India and Mexico should sign a new international treaty to curb climate change which must include economic penalties to clamp down on emissions of greenhouse gases, Nobel chemistry laureate Mario Molina said Wednesday.
14 Jun 2007
WASHINGTON, Jun 13 (IPS) - The coup in Thailand, extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, limitations on religious freedom in Malaysia -- South-east Asian democracies are not exactly flourishing these days.
11 Jun 2007
At the end of May, a member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Thailand told the court investigating the killings that the victims were unarmed and there was no evidence that they were insurgents, as claimed by the police. The inquest will continue on 21 September 2007.
9 Jun 2007
I am glad to see Naew Na's front page story about dangerous spots in Suvannabhumi airport. Even though we realise our concern may fall on deaf ears, we still have the duty to speak out.
8 Jun 2007
Beware of news editors who write about "stakeholders." The word may be popular among the staff of international development agencies, producing clouded reports about projects that they have never seen, but it is usually avoided by journalists, who are expected to be more straightforward.
8 Jun 2007
Nearly a century after adopting its first international standard on working time, a new study by the International Labour Office estimates that one in five workers around the world - orover 600 million persons - are still working more than 48 hours a week, often merely to make ends meet.
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