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Lao authorities tighten screws on social media users Newly created task force monitors posts and comments to lay out rules and punishments Updated: June 03, 2021 06:00 AM GMT Trending Houayheuang Xayabouly was sentenced to five years in prison in 2019 for speaking up for the victims of a flood that resulted from faulty construction at a hydroelectric dam. (Photo: Radio Free Asia) Authorities in Laos are stepping up their campaign to keep tabs on social media users in the repressive communist na...

Forced to quarantine at his factory as Covid-19 cases surge in Thailand, migrant worker Hein Thet Zaw has spent the last 10 days sleeping in a tent, trying to ward off hunger with meagre supplies of rice and boiled eggs.

REFILE-Migrant workers face tough quarantine in Thailand as COVID-19 cases surge Reuters 2 hrs ago (Refiles to correct name of province in paragraphs 2 and 11) * Migrant workers forced to quarantine amid third wave * Thousands confined to their workplaces, campaigners say * COVID-19 surge fuels crackdown on undocumented workers By Nanchanok Wongsamuth BANGKOK, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forced to quarantine at his factory as COVID-19 cases surge in Thailand, migrant worker Hein The...

Thousands of migrant workers in Thailand are being isolated in tough conditions in factories and building sites, workers and rights campaigners said on Friday, as the country faces its worst COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic began.

Thailand’s prisons have a COVID problem it doesn’t want to talk about Coconuts 2 hrs ago Chayanit Itthipongmaetee Activists dressed as prison inmates walk on a Bangkok skywalk to protest the Thai justice system. Photo: United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration / Facebook The COVID-19 infections of high-profile political activists behind bars is calling attention to what’s feared to be a brewing crisis in Thailand’s sizable prison population. Panusaya “Rung” Sith...

Myanmar’s independence from British rule, formalized in 1948, kickstarted decades of change still being felt at every level of society. Progress has come in fits and starts, but before...

Get me out of here, say frustrated young Thais Mismanagement of Covid-19, corruption, nepotism and human rights violations are their main reasons for wanting to emigrate Updated: May 07, 2021 07:31 AM GMT Trending Buddhist monks and rescue volunteers oversee the funeral of a woman who died after contracting the coronavirus at Wat Rat Prakhong Tham in Nonthaburi on May 5. The Thai government has been criticized for its mismanagement of the Covid-19 crisis. (Photo: AFP) Hundreds of thousands of y...

[Reuters] A Thai court ruled Wednesday that a senior government official can retain his cabinet post despite having served a prison sentence in Australia for heroin smuggling during the 1990s. While Thai law bars drug offenders from holding public office, the overseas ruling is not binding in Thailand, the Constitutional Court said. Wednesday’s ruling in the case of Thammanat Prompao, the deputy minister for agriculture and cooperatives, drew swift condemnation from a political ...

In one of its more deranged and highly politicized decisions, the Constitutional Court has ruled that Deputy Agriculture Minister and soon to be boss of the ruling Palang Prachart Party Thammanat Prompao who "pleaded guilty to conspiring to import heroin into Australia" can retain his cabinet post. Like the regime's leadership, the court decided that…

Thailand’s highest court has ruled the political powerbroker’s four years in a Sydney jail is not a breach of the constitution.