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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 nation with a newly created task force at the vanguard of monitoring. The task force comprises local...

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 Thet Zaw has spent the last 10 days sleeping in a tent, trying to ward off hunger with meager supplies ...

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” Sithijirawattanakul today became the eighth activist known to have contracted the disease while jailed. ...