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Worldwide calls for release of jailed Myanmar reporters
Reuters, Published on 08/01/2018
» Several countries, including the United States, many European nations and Canada, and top United Nations officials are among those demanding the release of Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from detention in Myanmar.
Insurgents who torched Yala bus 'own up' to crime
News, Muhammad Ayub Pathan, Published on 09/01/2018
» Three people detained in connection with the torching of a passenger bus in Yala on Dec 17 have confessed to carrying out the attack on the orders of two insurgents leading a group in the province, a security source said Monday.
Is Thailand's civil society waking up again?
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 19/01/2018
» It is hard to believe how the military-backed government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha that appeared so strong not so long ago now looks shaky enough to be untenable.
End of emergency decree proposed for Betong
Wassana Nanuam, Published on 16/02/2018
» Security officials say that conditions in Betong, the southernmost district in the country, have improved to the point where a state of emergency is no longer necessary.
Slovak police detain Italian suspects named by slain journalist
AFP, Published on 01/03/2018
» BRATISLAVA - Slovak police said they detained on Thursday several Italian businessmen named by murdered journalist Jan Kuciak as having mafia connections in an explosive investigative report on alleged high-level corruption.
Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie dies at 81
AFP, Published on 02/04/2018
» JOHANNESBURG: Winnie Mandela, the former wife of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, died on Monday aged 81, triggering an outpouring of comment on one of the country's defining and most divisive figures.
Karadzic war crimes appeal opens Monday
AFP, Published on 23/04/2018
» THE HAGUE - UN judges Monday begin hearing the two-day appeal of once-feared Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, fighting his conviction and 40-year jail term for war crimes and genocide in Bosnia's bloody 1990s conflict.
'Eradicate the tumours': Chinese civilians drive Xinjiang crackdown
AFP, Published on 26/04/2018
» MOYU COUNTY, China: The civilian group descended on the village under government instructions to "win the people's hearts", but it also had a darker mission: identifying and punishing threats to the Chinese state.
Disgraceful detentions
News, Editorial, Published on 03/05/2018
» The latest temporary detention of land rights activists in Chiang Mai and Lamphun by security authorities is disgraceful.
It's time to end land rights double standards
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/05/2018
» While the judiciary's scandalous housing estate in the sacred forest of Doi Suthep is receiving tacit government support, the military is rounding up community leaders in the North to prevent them from joining street protests in Bangkok to stop violent forest evictions.