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16 Jan 2009
While Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has vowed not to tamper with press freedom, over the past two weeks the administration launched an unprecedented crackdown on websites deemed as slandering the institution of monarchy.
16 Jan 2009
Thai soldiers are detaining illegal migrants from Bangladesh and Burma and forcing them back out to sea in boats without engines, survivors say.
14 Jan 2009
Amnesty International (AI) has called on the government to end the "culture of impunity" in the deep South where the London-based organisation has documented at least 34 cases of authorities torturing suspected Malay Muslim insurgents, four of whom died.
14 Jan 2009
The government is ready to lift the emergency decree in the restive southern border provinces if special laws are enforced to deal with the insurgents, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Wednesday.
12 Jan 2009
Last month a campaign group in Thailand opposing Internet censorship released a list of 1,303 new website addresses that, it claims, are among those a government ministry has blocked.
9 Jan 2009
Politics and national security are intertwined and this is especially true under the current political climate. Social divide fuelled by months of political strife has reared its ugly head, threatening to undermine the royal institution in the process. The threat has crept too close to the highest institution, thereby alarming the military which has sworn an oath of allegiance to protect the monarchy.
9 Jan 2009
BRAZILIAN airline company Embraer has sold an ERJ 135 aircraft to the Thai military, which will be used for transporting civilian and military personnel, the aircraft manufacturer reported on Thursday.
8 Jan 2009
It is very troubling to hear the new Minister of Information and Technology say that her first and main priority will be censorship of the internet. Ranongrak Suwanchawee gathered top officials of her ministry just before the holiday and gave her instructions in no uncertain terms
1 Jan 2009
At least 53 people have been killed in a fire in a nightclub in the Thai capital, Bangkok, police say.
29 Dec 2008
Editorial by the Left Bank website in Israel 27 December 2008 at the launching of operation “Cast Lead”
29 Dec 2008
Security and military affairs expert Assoc Prof Panitan Wattanayagorn was named as government speaker and deputy secretary to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
29 Dec 2008
Put on a red shirt and join a political rally, and chances are you'll be accused of taking a bribe. Are you on the payroll of Thaksin Shinawatra, or have you ever accepted any money from him?

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