Thai Gov't Censors Opera on 'Bad Omen'
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By GRANT PECK  BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's new military-appointed government has threatened to shut down an operatic version of the Hindu epic Ramayana, ostensibly over fears one of its scenes may bring bad luck.
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A popular new Thai soap opera about love and infidelity in the high skies has angered Thai Airways flight attendants who demanded Monday that the show be canceled for casting their profession in an unrealistic and immoral light.
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Thai censors lifted their ban on YouTube after five months of blocking it because it had carried material seen as insulting to the countryâs king.
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'You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy f-----' The BBC has censored The Pogues' xmas classic Fairytale of New York lest the lyrics offend homosexuals, the Telegraph reports.â¦
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Thailand's on-again off-again relationship with YouTube has taken another bad turn, as the government said it will go to court to have two videos blocked that it says were a threat to national security.
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BANGKOK, Thailand  -- Thailand's military council on Sunday issued new orders intended to stave off any possible opposition to their coup, banning political activities at the district and provincial levels.
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Singapore wants Thailand to clarify remarks made by its junta leader that he plans to take back control of satellites run by a firm sold to the city-state's Temasek Holdings, the foreign ministry said.
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Thailand's interim government lifts a ban on political party activities imposed after last September's coup.
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A cancelled opera in Berlin provokes fresh skirmishes between artistic freedom and religious sensibilities
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Ang Lee's new film Lust, Caution is being censored for Chinese audiences, according to a report.
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Indonesia has banned a documentary on the once volatile Aceh province from being screened at an international film festival on the grounds that it could disturb security, the festival's organizers said.
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Colombo: Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka today called off their agitation against a concert featuring Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan here after organisers gave a written apology for holding the event on the death anniversary of a popular priest.
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The Thai army banned political party   meetings and "political activities" on Thursday, two days after   ousting Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a coup, and gave   no sense of how long the ban would last.
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Thailand's new military ruler, winning crucial royal backing for his bloodless coup, announced Wednesday that he would not call elections for another year. The U.S. and other Western nations expressed disapproval and urged a swift restoration of democracy.
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The Thai government said today it has lifted a ban on YouTube after the Web site agreed not to allow videos that violate the countryâs laws or are deemed offensive there.
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Hot and bothered by a steamy new soap opera about airborne love and lust, Thai Airways flight attendants urged Thailandâs culture ministry on Monday to nip the show in the bud, The Associated Press reported. After broadcasts of three episodes of the series, âThe Air Hostess War,â the Thai Airways International union protested the story about an affair between a married pilot and a tall, slim flight attendant, featuring sex at stopover cities and love triangles that lead to fighting in the aisles. Viewers were captivated, but Noppadol Thaungthong, a Thai Airways flight attendant leading the unionâs action, said: âThis soap opera is insulting and damaging to the reputation of flight attendants. Itâs all about sex and air hostesses beating each other up in the cabin because of love and jealousy. This kind of thing never happens. We are demanding that the station and the producers immediately stop airing this ugly soap opera.â A culture ministry spokesman withheld comment until officials saw the letter of complaint, and the broadcaster, Channel 5, said it had no plans to pull the soap opera but would consider asking the producer to edit scenes found to be offensive.
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South-east Asian govern-ments yesterday abandoned attempts to censure Burma publicly for its human rights abuses, with officials admitting in private that they