http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/764/ en_GB_uk Thailand http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85715 The Asian Legal Resource Centre has hit back at the Thai government's dismissal of its accusation that the police are the top violator of human rights in the country. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85268 An international media group has asked Thailand's King for a royal pardon for a journalist jailed for 10 years under the country's lese majeste law, and 32 organisations are pressing for the legislation to be amended. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84927 The spate of lese-majesty cases in Thailand is a manifestation of a turn away from the democratic and social developments of the 1990s and back towards the outdated authoritarianism of earlier decades, says an Asian rights group. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84905 A cyber-demonstration is calling for the release of Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, who is serving a three-year sentence on a lese majeste charge for referring briefly to the monarchy in a novel set in Thailand. + After mysterious fire, online columnist dead in Congo http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84883 Hundreds of Myanmar's Rohingya people are missing at sea and many more are at risk of drowning after Thai authorities forcibly expelled large groups of Rohingyas seeking refuge. + UN refugee agency shocked by attack on staff in Pakistan http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84856 Controls on news and information are being tightened in Thailand, said an international media freedom group in the wake of a ban on a foreign magazine that criticised the three-year jail sentence imposed on an Australian writer on a lese majeste charge. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/161785/1/ Asian elephants are being smuggled from Myanmar into neighbouring Thailand for elephant trekking' tourism, says a new report. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83544 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83494 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82881 Drowning is the biggest killer of children who die from injuries in Bangladesh, China, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, according to new surveys. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82686 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81993 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81555 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/80971 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/80588 "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