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20 Feb 2009
DON SAMBANDARAKSA, Bangkok Post: However, one of the country's top ISPs now blocks any XML request with the term "lese majeste" in it. This was uncovered by one of my programming friends who I shall not name who was experimenting with URL shortening and came across an error where bit.ly went quiet on certain requests. Upon some experimenting, it appeared that it was the ISP that was replacing any HTTP request, whether it was one for a web page or one calling for a web service, with a fake "404 not found" page.
20 Feb 2009
Not so long ago, Thailand’s representatives at United Nations meetings sat quietly while counterparts from nearby countries like Burma and Cambodia were grilled on their human rights records.
17 Feb 2009
An Australian writer who was sentenced to three years in a Thai prison for insulting the monarchy in a book has been recommended for a royal pardon, according to the Thai Corrections Department.
16 Feb 2009
Nirmal Ghosh: Hours after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was voted into office, on the evening of Dec 15, I was at Bangkok’s sprawling Sanam Luang grounds to assess the reaction of the pro-democracy ‘red shirts’ who had been enraged by that morning’s developments. When a Thai friend, a senior manager in a five-star hotel in Bangkok, found out where I was, she flew into a rage. ‘Why are you encouraging the red shirts? I hate these people. It is you foreign journalists who are encouraging them,’ she said to me on the phone.
15 Feb 2009
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday defended Thailand's harsh lese majeste law but acknowledged that it should not be abused.
14 Feb 2009
Grant Evans, Bangkok Post: It is not uncommon for some Thai intellectuals and politicians to claim that foreigners simply do not understand Thai attitudes towards their king. It is true that many foreigners do not comprehend the feelings of awe and respect of the overwhelming majority of the Thai people. But it is also true that many foreigners have experienced similar feelings towards their own monarchs - whether they are British, Australian, Swedish or Japanese, among others.
12 Feb 2009
BANGKOK (AFP) — The Thai government on Wednesday chastised US actress Angelina Jolie and the United Nations refugee agency for commenting on boat people from Myanmar, whom the Thai army stands accused of abusing.
11 Feb 2009
One of the most controversial legacies from the 2006 coup and the military appointed Surayud Government was the Internal Security Act (ISA), giving legal status and more money for the military to play a key role in inter-nal-security related matters.
11 Feb 2009
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva should seek royal advice on changing the lese majeste law that has led to a slew of cases in recent months and forced a prominent academic to flee the country, well-known social critic Sulak Sivaraksa said Wednesday.
9 Feb 2009
A leading Bangkok-based professor who has joint British and Thai nationality fled Thailand at the weekend in the face of a lengthy sentence under the country's draconian lese-majesty laws, which forbid criticism of the king.
8 Feb 2009
From the hell of his Bangkok prison cell, the writer Harry Nicolaides reveals the horror of his daily battle to survive. 'We are woken at 6 and counted in the cell. Mine is 12 metres long and just over four metres wide, holding 50 or 60 prisoners, mostly Thais, mostly murderers and rapists. ...'
6 Feb 2009
GENEVA: Angelina Jolie has called on Thailand's government to give more freedom to tens of thousands of Burmese refugees it has kept locked inside camps for up to 20 years.

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