<p><span>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? </span></p>

<p>A new surge of violent attacks on teachers and schools by separatist militants has seriously disrupted education in Thailand&#39;s southern border provinces, Human Rights Watch said today.</p>

<p>Pharmaceutical company Abbott decided to sue PLWAs group Act Up-Paris in <br />response to the April 26th, 2007 netstrike we organized against the drug <br />manufacturer</p>

<p>Following repeated threats by ministers and members of Parliament<br />over the past three years to control online content, the Malaysian<br />government is setting up a task force to look into applying<br />existing legislation on the new media without contravening the<br />country&#39;s Bill of Guarantee against Internet censorship.</p>

<p><span>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.<br /></span><a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38166"></a></p>

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

<p>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.</p>

<p>I am glad to see Naew Na&#39;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.</p>

<p>Beware of news editors who write about &quot;stakeholders.&quot; 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. </p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) has just downloaded the most current, official, secret blocklist from the servers at Thailand's Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and posted it to FACT's website.</p>

<p>As the country is bracing for the constitution referendum, the powers that be have started to mischievously mobilize people to endorse the draft constitution which has so far failed to reflect people&#39;s opinions. Broadcasting media under the control of the army and certain televisions have been misused by the state to convey false messages that persuade people to endorse the draft 2007 constitution. </p>