<p>Thousands Vote for the Most Abusive Corporations</p>

<p>Newspaper advertising space has become a new battleground between pro-coup technocrats and anti-coup activists with each side launching separate campaigns to gain public support for opposing positions in the upcoming constitution referendum. </p>

<p>BANGKOK, Jun 27 (IPS) - Against the backdrop of a key Thai official&#39;s latest statement, the tug-o-war between the government and campaigners against Internet censorship looks far from being resolved any time soon.</p>

<p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is alarmed by recent blocks placed upon the media by the Bhutanese government. </p>

<p>A recording and transcripts of a conversation have been made available online which if true expose the extent to which Thailand&#39;s senior judiciary is compromised and controlled by outsiders, and what a long road it will be to restoring any notion of the rule of law there.&nbsp; </p>

<p><span>25,000 face starvation - appeal made for regional and international action - new report and video highlight severity of human rights abuses perpetrated in Burma</span></p>

<p>Dramatic events in both Pakistan and Thailand during the past year have brought their respective judiciaries to the centre of national politics. Judges and lawyers in Pakistan have played a</p>

<p><a href="http://www.house.gov/waxman/pdfs/thailand%20letter%20to%20ustr%2006-20-07.pdf">Supporting Letter from&nbsp; 35 members of Congress to USTR in case of Compulsory Licensing Use</a>, call for remove Thailand from the Special 301 Priority Watch List.</p>

<p><span>BANGKOK, Jun 20 (IPS) - Deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra has been ordered back to Thailand from self-exile to hear formal charges of concealing assets in a family property company or face arrest. <br /></span></p>

<p><span>BANGKOK, Jun 21 (IPS) - Setting quotas designed to have more women in politics and government may not have been the magic formula for more balanced political representation in many countries, but it has certainly been a key first step in many cases. </span></p>

<p>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.</p>

<p><span>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. <br /></span></p>