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“Any act detrimental to the security of the state”

November 13th, 2008 by Square Table, Guest Contributor · 2 Comments

Now here’s an exciting piece of news from Bernama, the official Malaysian news service, via Xinhua, monitoring a journal in Yangon: Myanmar is set to go wireless. “Myanmar is striving to introduce a wireless internet system of WiFi by early next year,” an article dated 12 November said. It is also “striving for the development [...]

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Tags: Burma · Burma uprising · Square Table · Than Shwe

Nicolaides: Australia should do more

November 13th, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 9 Comments

Last night the ABC’s 7.30 Report had a story on Harry Nicolaides (transcript and video is available here). This story, and other recent press coverage, reflects a decision by Harry’s family and lawyers to place pressure on the Australian government to do more about his plight. This seems entirely reasonable. So far, the Australian government’s action [...]

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Tags: Nicolaides · Thailand · lese majeste