Asean governments will be urged next month to call for a Commission of Inquiry on Burma by the UN Human Rights Council. But the new Asean Human Rights Body will face a wide range of problems and requests. COMMENTARY Sonthi raps PAD
The 2006 coup leader Gen Sonthi Boonyaratkalin says he expects pro- and anti-government protests on the weekend to pass without violence. Potjaman appeals
The former wife of deposed prime minister Thaksin, has filed an appeal in a tax evasion case in which she was sentenced to three years in jail.