Wayne Hay

They are mak­ing un­prece­dent­ed de­mands for re­form of the monar­chy and for the po­lit­i­cal pow­er of the king to be re­moved.

Bren­ton Tar­rant, the at­tack­er be­hind New Zealand’s worst mass shoot­ing, has faced sur­vivors and rel­a­tives on the third day of his sen­tenc­ing hear­ing.

De­spite ar­rests and charges against protest lead­ers, pro­test­ers say they will con­tin­ue fight­ing for a bet­ter fu­ture.

An­oth­er peace con­fer­ence has end­ed with lit­tle more than a plan to keep ne­go­ti­at­ing.

More than 20 armed groups have been de­mand­ing in­de­pen­dence for decades.

Demon­stra­tors are de­mand­ing new elec­tions, an amend­ed con­sti­tu­tion, with some call­ing for re­form of the monar­chy.

The roy­al fam­i­ly is pro­tect­ed by laws de­signed to pre­vent crit­i­cism.

Pro­test­ers in Thai­land say the ar­rest of two lead­ers will not stop their cam­paign to force the gov­ern­ment out.

About eight mil­lion tonnes of plas­tic en­ter the world’s oceans each year and Thai­land is one of the largest con­trib­u­tors.

In Thai­land, sev­er­al in­ves­ti­ga­tions have been launched, in­clud­ing one by a par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee, af­ter charges were dropped against the Red Bull heir in a fa­tal hit-and-run case.