<p>A new judge presiding over the hearing of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of prachatai.com, who faces criminal charges for not removing messages deemed offensive to the monarchy &quot;quickly enough&quot;, said the ruling would be based on the technicality of whether the suspect collaborated with the posters or if she just failed to remove the posts in time.</p>

<p>A former security guard who testified to the Criminal Court on the May 19, 2010 arson and death case at CentralWorld told judges yesterday that he had put his signature approving the police statement charging the two defendants without reading the document.</p>

<p>How sound is the dominant belief amongst educated and wealthy Thais that poor and less educated folks are essentially stupid, corrupt, violence and a drag on national progress?</p>

<p><em>Two photo books document the movement that swept away the coup-makers</em></p>

<p>In a sign of increasing online witch-hunting against its political opponents, ASTV-Manager daily newspaper, the mouthpiece of the yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), on Monday produced the picture and name of the latest man charged under lese majeste laws.</p>

<p>A 23-year-old university graduate was detained on Friday for alleged lese majeste - offending the monarchy - in messages written on his blog, prachatai.com on-line newspaper reported yesterday.</p>

<p>A police officer who arrested one of the two suspects for the arson attack on Central World shopping centre on May 19, 2010, admitted in court yesterday that he had relied on one blurry photograph to make the arrest.</p>

<p>A prosecution witness who claimed who have taken a photograph of one of the two adult defendants in the case of the CentralWorld shopping-complex fire in May last year, yesterday gave confusing testimony as to how sure he was that the man in the blurry picture was in fact Saichon Paebua.</p>

<p>Now that the Pheu Thai Party is getting ready to form a new government, the so-called &quot;red shirts for democracy&quot; face the challenge of living up to their self-chosen tag of being &quot;truly democratic&quot;.</p>

<p>The Criminal Court decided yesterday to take up two lese majeste cases against Red Power magazine editor Somyos Prueksakasemsuk, who insists he is innocent.</p>

<p>When the advocates of the freedom of expression and journalists from Southeast and South Asia met in the Indonesian capital last weekend, each had their own sobering tale to tell.</p>

<p>The afternoon of May 19, 2010 was a time of chaos at Zen department store after red shirts ended their protest and the Army moved into Ratchaprasong.</p>