Thai Court Agrees to Hear Experts in Academic´s Case
(WorldNews Asia)

A Thai military court on Thursday delayed a decision on whether to prosecute a prominent historian and social critic who suggested that a famed duel on elephant-back won by a Thai king against a Burmese prince 500 years ago may not actually have happened. The 84-year-old Sulak Sivaraksa was charged by police last October under the country´s draconian lese majeste law that protects...