Thailand's Most Senior Human Trafficking Investigator to Seek Political Asylum in Australia .

The investigations lead to people high up in the army and the thugs.

Japan's failure to act against ivory smuggling is impeding efforts to protect elephants.

China has arrested many labor activists in Canton (Guangdong).

The Venezuelan right wing has repeatedly accused Chavez of stealing elections. We see now that the elections in Venezuela are honest .

However, I fear that the antisocialists, now in power, will change that. Republicans in the US have perfected several methods of rigging elections that they could follow.

Dow and DuPont want to merge.

Large companies should never be allowed to merge. Let's hope that today's weakened antitrust laws provide a basis to block it.