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Guardian Australia: Human Rights Watch says Thai navy trying to silence two journalists instead of investigating story about mistreatment of Rohingya refugees ...

s 310-mile (500km) northern border, with thousands of Rohingya entering unhindered at a time when the government has taken a tough public stance against illegal immigration. For the desperate Rohingya, Malaysia is the promised land, where at least 30,000 already live. The country does not give them full refugee rights, but has allowed them to stay and register with the UN. Thousands have found work...

s International Labour Organisation and Human Rights Watch (pdf). Myo Zaw Do's case was recorded by the EJF last month, after he managed to escape and take refuge in a temple outside Bangkok. He says he was 20 when he left the small town of Kamarsay Sanpya in Burma to find work. He travelled to the border town of Myawaddy, where he paid traffickers to help him make an illegal crossing into Thailand....

Suthep Thaugsuban keeps up campaign against government but says ‘we are returning Bangkok to its owners’ ...

Total of 15 people die as double-decker bus taking students on daytrip collides with truck and crashes off side of road ...

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s joyful reaction to the French revolution – "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven!" – , which he fondly believed threatened the ancien regime across all Europe, shows how lasting, powerful – and illusory – is the idea of ubiquitous, socially-levelling, personally liberating rebellion. Following this deceptive formula, the revolts that roiled the Arab world, starting...

m asking and pleading with every side to let my children be the last case [of violence] on Thai soil," Tayakorn said, his voice breaking. "I didn't expect my children to be brilliant. I just wanted them to be good people and to be able to get by in this society. But this society, right now, is very cruel. Very, very cruel." The children, their aunt and nine-year-old cousin had gone out to eat and were...

A bomb blast in a shopping district in the Thai capital on Sunday has killed two and wounded at least 22 ...

Nine-year-old boy among 22 others injured in attack near anti-government protest site on Sunday as Thai conflict goes on ...

s historic district which left five people dead and dozens wounded. Yingluck is under intense pressure from various legal challenges as well as the street protests demanding her resignation. She faces charges of neglect of duty over a controversial rice subsidy scheme that could see her removed from office. Protesters accuse Yingluck's billionaire family of using taxpayers' money to buy the loyalty...

City ‘selfies’, overcrowding misconceptions and how weather affects New Yorkers’ generosity feature among the best city content we’ve seen online this week Marta Bausells ...

constitutional rights. The prohibited orders included bans on gatherings of five or more people and the use of certain roads by the demonstrators. The court also prohibited the government from using force to crack down on the protesters. But the court also rejected a demand by the opposition that it revoke the state of emergency, saying it was within the executive branch's power to enforce such a...

s debut Olympics As Vanessa-Mae, she has sold 10m albums and made a vast fortune on her way to establishing herself as one of the world's most successful violinists. As Vanessa Vanakorn, she was somewhat less distinguished on Tuesday, finishing in 67th place out of 67 finishers in the women's giant slalom. But Mae, who used the surname of her Thai father to fulfil her dream to compete at the Winter...

s offices at Government House in a back-and-forth fight that killed one policeman and three civilians, according to the Erawan medical centre, which monitors casualties. Several other people were injured by a grenade, including a journalist from Hong Kong, the Associated Press reported. It was unclear exactly what had been fired from which side, but reports emerged of police firing rubber bullets and...

Deaths and injuries reported after gun battles and clashes between police and demonstrators in Bangkok ...

Multiple gunshots can be heard as Thai police start to remove protesters and dismantle makeshift protest camps around Bangkok ...

Scores arrested, reports say, as authorities announce they intend to reclaim key locations from anti-government demonstrators ...

Hundreds of rice farmers breach perimeter fences around the government buildings in Bangkok ...

s mobile government Thai opposition demonstrators have surrounded government offices – including a compound used as a temporary headquarters by the prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra – in defiance of authorities who have vowed to reclaim key state buildings. Hundreds of protesting rice farmers breached the perimeter of the defence ministry compound in a Bangkok suburb guarded by security forces. It...