Full Coverage: Thailand

24.04.2008 Asian governments' attempts to manage skyrocketing food prices by restricting rice exports is actually aggravating food shortages in the region, says Peter Timmer in this interview.

22.04.2008 One of the three writers from Thailand whom the giant retailer Tesco is trying to suppress with serial libel writs has arrived in London at the invitation of the free speech body Index on Censorship.

12.03.2008 Drowning is the biggest killer of children who die from injuries in Bangladesh, China, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, according to new surveys.

28.02.2008 Alarming local and international rights activists, several officials in the Thai government are speaking freely about the 'necessity' of using extra-judicial killings as part of a national clampdown on narcotics.

26.02.2008 Thaimaassa arvioidaan elävän 2,5 miljoonaa sortoa ja köyhyyttä paennutta burmalaista, joista vain viidennes on rekisteröitynyt Thaimaan asukkaaksi. Pakolaisnaiset ovat täysin työnantajien armoilla, koska heillä ei ole samoja kansalaisoikeuksia kuin thaimaalaisilla.

21.02.2008 Maailman suurista rannikkokaupungeista Bangkok tulee olemaan yksi ensimmäisistä ilmastonmuutoksen uhreista. Thaimaan päättäjät ovat vähitellen heräämässä veden pinnan nousun vaaraan.

31.01.2008 Thaimaa antoi taannoin kansalaisuuden 212 merimustalaiselle eli mokenille. Kansalaisuuden ansiosta mokeneilla on oikeus käyttää muun muassa valtion terveys- ja koulutuspalveluja.

10.01.2008 Several Thai environmental groups are hoping to reverse last year's decision to lift the ban on genetically modified foods, citing that the lift may put Thailand's agricultural industry in danger.

19.12.2007 Thaimaan vanhoillinen poliittinen eliitti hyötyi reilun vuoden takaisesta sotilaskaappauksesta, mutta se saattaa kokea pettymyksen joulukuun 23. päivän vaaleissa.

04.12.2007 International governments must increase diplomatic pressure on the Burmese government and augment humanitarian assistance to the millions of Burmese forced to flee their homes after years of internal conflict and repression, writes an international organization working with refugees.

30.10.2007 The Thai government's policy of compulsory rehabilitation or incarceration for drug users has increased stigma and HIV risk, but local groups representing Thai drug users and HIV-infected citizens are pushing for more constructive programs.

03.10.2007 "Keeping quiet while monks and other peaceful protesters are murdered and jailed is not evidence of constructive engagement," said an international human rights monitor Tuesday, urging Chinese, Indian, Thai, and other companies to take a stand against the military crackdown in Burma.
From: Human Rights Watch

26.09.2007 Parikymppiset Thaimaan vuoristoheimojen jäsenet Atee Chermeu ja Phatiphan Ay ovat rakentaneet internetiin virtuaalisen vuoristoheimomuseon. Tavoitteena on rohkaista vuoristoheimolaisia oppimaan kulttuureistaan ja kannustaa muita luopumaan ennakkoluuloistaan.

17.09.2007 Vuosi sitten sotilasjuntan alaisuuteen joutunut Thaimaa ei saanut kutsua maailmanlaajuiseen demokraattisten valtioiden yhteisön ministerikokoukseen, joka pidetään marraskuussa afrikkalaisessa Malissa.

14.09.2007 Activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Thailand are currently gathering outside the UN headquarters in New York to demand greater attention be paid to global hunger. Through a regularly updated blog, the campaigners are sharing behind-the-scenes action, video feeds, concert footage, and more.

29.08.2007 A low-level insurgency is spiraling into a brutal armed conflict in the predominantly ethnic Malay Muslim provinces of southern Thailand, a global rights group said Tuesday, noting that for the first time in the region's history, Buddhist monks are being targeted for death.
From: Human Rights Watch

20.08.2007 Thailand's ruling military junta pushed through a new constitution in a referendum this weekend, but nearly two thirds of Thai voters either abstained or voted 'no' -- including over 60 percent of the impoverished northeast of the country.

13.08.2007 According to the 2007 report of the International Telecommunications' Union (ITU) related to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) which was released recently, Tunisia achieved a considerable progress in the field of information technologies.

07.08.2007 A group of community radio and people's media organisations in Thailand has rejected the military-backed draft constitution as undemocratic and has called for its rejection.

27.07.2007 BANGKOK, Jul 27 (IPS) - Dr. Weng Tojirakan was in a defiant mood the morning after he was detained by the police at the Criminal Court in the Thai capital. "This happened because of the tyranny in our country," the 56-year-old medical doctor said in an interview Friday.