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Rights groups hopeful court will accept Tak Bai case, deadline looms
Online Reporters, Published on 22/07/2024
» Lawyers representing victims of the Tak Bai massacre are hopeful the provincial court will accept the case for trial, with the decision now scheduled for late August and the statute of limitations in the case soon to expire.
Court to mull Tak Bai tragedy lawsuit
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 22/07/2024
» The Narathiwat Provincial Court will consider next month whether it will accept a lawsuit against nine former top officials accused of murder, unlawful detention and misconduct in connection with the Tak Bai tragedy.
Bangladesh TV news off air, communications disrupted as student protests spike
Reuters, Published on 19/07/2024
» DHAKA - Television news channels in Bangladesh were off the air and telecommunications were widely disrupted on Friday amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs in which nearly two dozen people have been killed this week.
Armed man killed while approaching Republican National Convention in US
New York Times, Published on 17/07/2024
» MILWAUKEE — Five Ohio police officers who were in Milwaukee, the United States, to assist with security at the Republican National Convention fired shots at a man in a residential neighbourhood Tuesday afternoon, killing him, officials said.
Kenyan president sacks cabinet after tax protests
Published on 11/07/2024
» NAIROBI - Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday fired his entire cabinet apart from the foreign minister, bowing to pressure from nationwide protests that have created the biggest crisis of his two-year presidency.
Anti-potash protesters greet mobile cabinet
Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 02/07/2024
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Opponents of potash mining were out in force to greet the cabinet in this northeastern province on Tuesday morning to demand a review on the government’s potash mining policy and negative impacts.
Strongman Prabowo learns who really calls shots
News, Daniel Moss, Published on 27/06/2024
» There really is no such thing as a free lunch, even for an emerging market as successful as Indonesia. The incoming president, a former general, has talked boldly about turbo-charging growth and sounded dismissive about long-standing spending rules. If only he could just order investors around like a regiment.
Texas pardons man who killed Black Lives Matter protester
Published on 18/05/2024
» The governor of Texas has granted a full pardon to a former US Army sergeant who was convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020.
Thai Human Rights Council aspirations
Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 17/05/2024
» Thailand's quest for membership of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), Geneva, for the period 2025-2027, is rightly gaining interest among the general public. With a new foreign minister today, it is intriguing to prospect whether there will be more (or less) momentum in the competition towards the winning post -- with elections for the HRC due in New York in October.
20 years later, time for justice for Tak Bai
Oped, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 16/05/2024
» Time flies. But it doesn't fly fast enough for security officers responsible for the Tak Bai massacre almost two decades ago.