Thailand scraps death-row webcast
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The Thai prisons director shelves plans to broadcast the lives of condemned prisoners after criticism.
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Thailand's new interim prime minister said Thursday that the country's candidate to become the next secretary general of the United Nations is dropping his bid for the job.
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Almost 80 people died of suffocation in southern Thailand while being taken to detention at a military barracks after a violent demonstration, a justice ministry official said Tuesday.
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A top Thai court threw out a lawsuit by anti-privatization activists trying to delist $34 billion energy giant PTT PCL , but said on Friday it had to return its gas pipelines and some land to the government.
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Business: 9 December 2004, Thursday. The Supreme Administrative Prosecution has retracted its protest against the ruling of the state telecommunications watchdog there has been no state support in the awarding ...
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Text of report in English by Thai newspaper The Nation website on 19 February  The Campaign for Popular Media Reform yesterday [18 February] demanded the government free Channel 11 from state control after it permitted media tycoon Sondhi Limthongkul to use the station for broadcasts.
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Thailand's military coup this week interrupted filming of Nicolas Cage's new movie, a gangster thriller being shot in Bangkok, a news report said Thursday.
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No news is not good news Thai radio, television and internet operators will from tomorrow face closure if they disseminate "news and comments deemed a threat to national security and the monarchy", Reuters reports.â¦
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A challenge to Indonesia's death penalty by lawyers for an Australian drugs gang is thrown out of court.
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The military-installed government completed the takeover of the countryâs only independent television station, and said it would temporarily pull it off the air after it failed to pay billions of dollars in fees. The takeover was expected after the station said last week that it could not pay the fees. The government announced yesterday that it would terminate iTVâs license after the deadline had passed for paying nearly $3 billion in fines, broadcasting license fees and interest. The governmentâs move was the latest in a series of decisions that have raised concern among investors and the public about the direction of Thailandâs leaders. Others include the imposition of capital controls and new restrictions placed on foreign ownership of Thai companies. A minister in the prime ministerâs office, told reporters the station would stop broadcasting today but could resume transmission as early as Friday if government officials could resolve legal issues for new ownership.
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Thailand's Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit on Friday seeking to annul its December 23 election, bringing the party backing ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra another step closer to forming a coalition government.
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Thailand is seeking to block clips on  video-sharing Web site YouTube, accusing the chief royal  adviser of being the mastermind of the bloodless coup last  year, a top Justice Ministry official said on Friday.
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The number of death sentences meted out by Chinese courts has dropped since legislation was introduced requiring the approval of the country's highest court before anyone is executed, state media said Friday.
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A Thai court dismisses a suit to ban the People Power Party, clearing the way for it to form a government.
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BBC Monitoring, via sources in Bangkok, has observed that all Thai terrestrial television stations, namely Channels 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11, suspended regular broadcasts at about 1500 gmt (1600 bst, 2200 local time) and instead began carrying music videos featuring scenes of King Phumiphon Adunyadet.
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Video with tidbits about plans for Google Reader and social features is taken offline.
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An Indonesian TV station has stopped airing professional wrestling after a demand by the country's broadcasting commission, company officials said on Thursday, amid a probe into the death of a 9-year-old boy.