13 February 2012.  The witness hearing in the case of Somyos Prueksakasemsuk in Songkhla Provincial Court was postponed when the witness failed to appear, citing the unnecessary difficulty of travelling from Bangkok.
 
Somyos had been transported from Bangkok to Songkhla because the witness to be heard was registered as resident in Songkhla Province. In fact he lives and studies in Pathum Thani, just north of Bangkok, and asked to give testimony at the Criminal Court in Bangkok.  This will now happen on 18 April.
 

Suppose you are the government and you want to block a website.
 
The constitution says you can’t do this.  At least not without good reason.
 
Section 45 says: ‘A person shall enjoy the liberty to express his or her opinion, make speeches, write, print, publicise, and make expression by other means.’  Blocking a website, like closing a newspaper or banning a book, is a clear violation of this liberty.
 

 The news that the film ‘Shakespeare Tong Tai’ (Shakespeare Must Die) has been banned by the censors comes as no surprise to teachers of English literature in the nation. They report an ever-growing list of censored works, and are often bewildered by the official reasons given for the bans.

In a way, you could understand it.  His formative years were during the Great Depression when scrimping and saving was not a sign of anal-retentive miserliness but an essential strategy for survival.  But years later, when my father had prospered as far as a Morris Minor, his driving habits reflected his upbringing.