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Warming opens famed Northwest Passage to navigation
AFP, Published on 09/12/2015
» ABOARD CCGS AMUNDSEN (CANADA) - Beneath the Aurora Borealis an oil tanker glides through the night past the Coast Guard ice breaker Amundsen and vanishes into the maze of shoals and straits of the Northwest Passage, navigating waters that for millennia were frozen over this time of year.
US ambassador raps lese majeste sentences
AFP, Published on 26/11/2015
» US Ambassador Glyn T Davies on Wednesday expressed concern about the "unprecedented" prison terms handed down under the Criminal Code Section 112 law.
Prayut says military not to blame for Mor Yong death
AFP, Published on 10/11/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Tuesday said the military was not to blame for the death of a famous fortune teller charged with royal defamation after he died in custody in a Bangkok army barracks.
Toilet scribbler jailed another 18 months for lese majeste
AFP, Published on 16/10/2015
» An elderly man already jailed for royal defamation was Friday sentenced to a additional 18 months for violations of the lese majeste law related to graffiti he scrawled in a Bangkok toilet last year, his lawyer said.
Prachatai writer honoured for lese majeste reporting
AFP, Published on 06/10/2015
» Journalist Mutita Chuachang has won the 2015 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb Prize for her powerful and persistent reporting of cases prosecuted under the lese majeste law.
Facebook poster jailed record 30-years for lese majeste
AFP, Published on 07/08/2015
» A 48-year-old man was jailed for 30 years on Friday for insulting the monarchy on Facebook, in one of the toughest-known sentences passed under the lese majeste law.
Military Court jails 10 from 'anti-monarchy' network
AFP, Published on 14/07/2015
» The Bangkok Military Court on Tuesday sentenced 10 people from an "anti-monarchy network" to up to five years in prison for lese majeste over audio recordings deemed to defame the royal family.
Cars threaten world's most endangered feline
AFP, Published on 19/06/2015
» MAZARAMBROZ (SPAIN) - The world's most endangered feline species, the Iberian lynx, is making a comeback in Spain after being pushed to the brink of extinction.
Bookseller gets 2 years jail for lese majeste
AFP, Published on 22/04/2015
» A man was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in jail for selling books deemed to have defamed the monarchy.
Two jailed for royal slur in play
AFP, Published on 23/02/2015
» Two young people accused of insulting the monarchy in a university play two years ago were each sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison by a Bangkok court on Monday.