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Facebook losing the war on Myanmar hate speech
Reuters, Published on 16/08/2018
» YANGON: In April, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told US senators that the social media site was hiring dozens more Burmese speakers to review hate speech posted in Myanmar. The situation was dire.
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'Facebook Eight' indicted
Reuters, Published on 23/08/2016
» The Bangkok Military Court accepted a case on Tuesday against eight people charged with ridiculing Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Facebook, extending a crackdown against dissent after Thais voted earlier this month to accept a military-backed charter.
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Dissident Russian rock band deported to Israel
Reuters, Published on 01/02/2024
» Members of a Russian rock band opposed to the Ukraine war have left Thailand for Israel a week after the authorities threatened to deport them back to Moscow for working at the resort island of Phuket without a permit, the band and the Royal Thai Police said on Thursday.
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Singer-activist Ammy confesses to burning king’s portrait
Reuters, Published on 03/03/2021
» An anti-government activist arrested for burning a portrait of His Majesty the King has confessed to the incendiary act.
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China notifies Thailand it is holding back waters
Reuters, Published on 06/01/2021
» China has notified downstream neighbours it is holding back the Mekong River flow at a hydropower dam on the waterway's upper reaches for 20 days, as part of a new data-sharing pact, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) and Thailand said on Wednesday.
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From tweet to street: New Thai generation joins protest
Reuters, Published on 16/12/2019
» It wasn't only the moves to ban Thailand's most vocal opposition party that brought Gift onto the street for the first time.
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New Mekong dam in Laos opens to protests, dried-out downstream
Reuters, Published on 29/10/2019
» NONG KHAI: The first hydropower dam on the lower Mekong River began commercial operations in Laos on Tuesday amid protests from Thai villagers who say the Xayaburi Dam and several others in the works will destroy their livelihoods.
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Thais urged to drop charges over rape complaint posts
Reuters, Published on 07/09/2018
» Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Thai authorities to drop legal cases against 12 people arrested over Facebook posts they shared about a British tourist's complaint that she had been raped on a holiday island.
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NCPO 'suppresses public, hurts Thai image': Future Forward
Reuters, Published on 01/08/2018
» In a statement on its Facebook page, Future Forward hit back at the ruling junta on Wednesday, accusing it of tarnishing Thailand’s image by threatening to file police charges against some party members.
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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.
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