Sitting here at the National Thai Studies Centre’s 2009 Thai Update I am struck by the news that two Thai citizens have been charged with “feeding untrue information through a computer system which undermined the security of the nation”. They have been accused of spreading rumours about the king’s health. Apparently a translation of a Bloomberg article is [...]
A story with big implications
November 2nd, 2009 by Nicholas Farrelly · 15 Comments
Tags: Online Issues · Thailand · lese majeste
Live coverage of Thai Update today
November 2nd, 2009 by Andrew Walker · 1 Comment
Our live coverage of the 2009 Thai Update held at the Australian National University (and organised by the National Thai Studies Centre) will start at about 9 AM today.
The program for the Update is here.
You can follow New Mandala’s Twitter posts about the Update on our Twitter page here.
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