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Govt defends strict royal insults law at UN rights review
Reuters, Published on 10/11/2021
» The government defended the controversial law criminalising criticism of the powerful monarchy on Wednesday, as United Nations member states expressed concern over the country’s rights record and arrests of youth protesters pushing for royal reforms since last year.
Govt to universities: Stop students' calls for monarchy reform
Reuters, Published on 13/09/2020
» Authorities have summoned the heads of universities to tell them to stop students demanding reform of the monarchy, warning that such calls could lead to violence, a member of the military-appointed Senate said on Sunday.
Police arrest more pro-democracy demonstrators
Reuters, Published on 26/08/2020
» Police on Wednesday arrested two pro-democracy student protest leaders for taking part in rallies and were to charge them with sedition, expanding a crackdown on demonstrators as pressure builds against the government.
Man arrested amid #royalmotorcade controversy
Reuters, Published on 08/10/2019
» Authorities have arrested and charged a man for posting "inappropriate content" online, cyber police said on Tuesday, as the man's lawyer denied reports his client had criticised the royal family.
US secretary of state criticises China's Mekong dams
Reuters, Published on 01/08/2019
» US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday criticised China's dam-building on the Mekong River, saying its construction had left the crucial waterway at its lowest level in a decade in Southeast Asian countries downstream.
Thai exiles in fear after murders, disappearances
Reuters, Published on 24/05/2019
» When members of the exiled Thai protest band Faiyen learned that the concrete-stuffed bodies of two Thai activists who had disappeared from Laos had been found in the Mekong River, they grew worried about their own fates.
Tracking Huawei: a years-long US espionage probe
Reuters, Published on 07/03/2019
» The surprise arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer in December quickly turned the executive, Meng Wanzhou, into a central figure in a trade war between two economic superpowers.
Lese majeste charges dropped for burning royal portraits
Reuters, Published on 20/09/2018
» An appeal court has dropped royal insult charges against six people jailed for setting fire to portraits of kings, it said, but they will still have to serve lengthy jail terms for damaging public property.
How two young reporters shook Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 09/08/2018
» YANGON: Late in the afternoon of Dec 12 last year, Wa Lone's cell phone rang. It was a man named Naing Lin, a lance corporal in Myanmar's 8th Security Police Battalion.
Thai politics: No country for young men?
Reuters, Published on 25/03/2018
» A 39-year-old motor parts billionaire and extreme sports enthusiast seeking to shake up Thai politics has been compared to France's Emmanuel Macron and Canada's Justin Trudeau for his youth.