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March 12, 2010
2009 Human Rights Report: Laos

The central government continued to deny citizens the right to change their government. Prison conditions were harsh and at times life threatening. Corruption in the police and judiciary persisted.

May 27, 2010
Pursuing justice: For all rights, for all people

Between January and May 2009, some 300,000 Sri Lankans were trapped on a narrow strip of land between the retreating Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the advancing Sri Lankan military.

May 15, 2010
US Embassy offers evacuation of families of staff

The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok is offering to evacuate family members of its staff in the volatile Thai capital and has issued a travel warning advising American citizens to stay away.

May 14, 2010
Violence spikes in central Bangkok, with police firing on rioting anti-government protesters

Soldiers opened fire on anti-government protesters who battled them with firebombs and homemade rockets Friday in a second straight day of escalating violence as troops tried to clear the rioters from the streets of downtown Bangkok.

May 13, 2010
Renegade Thai General Reported Shot

A rogue army commander leading a militant group of opposition protesters was shot in the head Thursday as Thai army and police forces began blockading the site of weeks-long antigovernment rally in Bangkok's main shopping district.

May 7, 2010
Thailand policemen targeted in Bangkok attacks

The attack occurred in the Silom financial district, close to the area where red-shirt opposition protesters have been barricaded.

April 28, 2010
Thailand: Red Shirt Protest and Internet Freedom

Military coups and political protesting is something not uncommon in Thailand. Life seems to go on normally. Thailand ruled by the constitutional democratic monarchy system, which the elite class seems to be dictate and dominated of politics and of militaries.

April 23, 2010
Explainer: What are the protests in Thailand about?

Thousands of anti-government protesters have once again brought Thailand’s capital to a standstill, as they seek to unseat a leadership — led by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva — they say is illegitimate and undemocratic.

April 22, 2010
Red Shirts' Bangkok fortress becomes tourist hot spot

Barricades of tyres and sharpened bamboo sticks mark the perimeter of a sprawling protest camp in central Bangkok that has become a no-go area for police but an unexpected tourist attraction.

April 18, 2010
Laos Church Leader Jailed Without Trial, Group Says

VIENTIANE, LAOS  An influential house church leader is jailed in Laos for more than half a year and he may be killed as authorities fear the spread of Christianity in the region where he has been working, an advocacy group said Friday, April 16.

April 9, 2010
Thai protesters storm into TV compound

Protesters who want a change of government in Thailand forced their way Friday into a satellite transmission complex, sending soldiers fleeing and compelling authorities to reverse a ban on their TV channel.

April 7, 2010
North Korea sentences US man to eight years hard labour

An American man has been sentenced to eight years hard labour in North Korea after being convicted of illegally entering the nuclear armed country.

April 4, 2010
State Department Urged to Counter Chinas Internet Policies, Part 1

Representatives from Google and The Go Daddy Group spoke of the increasing difficulties in doing business in China without becoming complicit in its censorship on the Internet and monitoring of its citizens’ free expressions on the Internet.

April 3, 2010
Group questioning relationship between White House official and Google

A consumer group this week formally requested access to e-mails exchanged between White House Internet policy chief Andrew McLaughlin and his former employer, Google.

March 31, 2010
Migrant warning for Malaysia, Thailand

BANGKOK - Thailand and Malaysia have been singled out again in recent human rights reports for their systematic and unchecked exploitation of their large migrant worker populations.

March 23, 2010
Activists call for Laos dam to suspend operations

HANOI — The largest hydroelectric project in Laos, which began selling power to Thailand last week, should suspend operations until it has fulfilled its obligations to local people, activists said Tuesday.

March 23, 2010
North Koreans fear another famine amid economic crisis

North Koreans who recently fled to China say many of their fellow citizens are losing faith in the regime of Kim Jong Il after a disastrous currency revaluation that wiped out savings and left food scarcer than at any time since the famine of the mid-1990s, when up to 2 million people died.

March 19, 2010
Google 'may shut down China operations next month'

China Business News cites a source close to Google China as saying the company may pull out of the country on April 10, and may announce details of its exit strategy as soon as Monday.

March 16, 2010
Two human rights organizations urge India to take affirmative steps to end impunity in Manipur

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Human Rights Alert (HRA) organised a protest rally today in Hong Kong calling upon the Government of India to initiate steps to end the culture of impunity in Manipur.

March 15, 2010
Who are Thailand's "red shirts"?

The UDD is largely backed by the rural poor, loyal to Thaksin because of his populist policies while in office from 2001-2006. Many "red shirts" are among the millions who helped the billionaire win two election landslides.

March 14, 2010
Brief remarks by Dr. Quan Nguyen on the occasion of the Laotian Human Rights Conference on October 26, 2009

Government against its own people. We demand that The Laos Government should respect the basic human rights of all people and to open up its political system so the Laotian people can breath the free air.

March 14, 2010
Thailand protesters want government dissolved

Tens of thousands of Thailand protesters on Sunday demanded the dissolution of the Thai government within 24 hours. If that does not happen, the masses of "red shirt" protesters gathered in the streets of Bangkok say they will launch more massive street demonstrations against the current regime.

March 13, 2010
Myanmar refugees face grim future in Bangladesh

KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh — Dildar Begum has no country, no job, no food and is fast running out of hope.

March 12, 2010
UDD rally unlikely to topple government

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra recently broadcast via satellite TV that if the government was so sure there would be only a small number of red shirt supporters coming to Bangkok, why not dissolve the House of Representatives and hold a general election.

March 10, 2010
Google 'will quit China over censorship' warns executive

A top Google executive told US lawmakers Wednesday that the Internet giant is prepared to leave China if Beijing says it must censor Web searches or quit the world's most populous online market.