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The Committee to Protect Journalists is a non-profit organization established with the aim to protect the press freedom around the world. There is not much information available on who the members of organization are and whether it has regional affiliates apart from its central office in New York. The organization publishes annual reports that are dealing with the issues of media freedom mainly, and on margins with issues of media standards and professionalism. Like the International Press Institute reports, the reports of CPJ are not prepared according to standardized methodology, there is no topic list according to which reports are made, and the reports are not meant to compare countries with their past or with other countries. The reports are descriptive and concentrate mainly on the problems that are identified in the relevant country. A total of 141 countries are covered by the report. The criteria according to which these countries are included are not mentioned in the report, but from the list it is visible that most developed countries are not present. The report does not indicate the source of information on which the report is based, and as far as it can be seen from the report itself, both country and regional reports are compiled by teams that are dealing with one region only. The reports for 2000 and 2001 are available on the CPJ's web site.

Reporters sans frontiers are another source of information on the state of press freedom. The report of RSF that is conducted annually is in terms of content and topic covered very similar to the reports of the CPJ and IPI. The area covered, like in the previously mentioned sources are legislative framework in which media operate, legal restrictions in terms of access to information, restrictions on publishing of materials related to some "sensitive" topics, presence and broadness of anti defamation laws. They also record issues like governmental interference in the editorial and personnel policy of media and pressures from the government institutions like financial and judicial pressures, restrictions on broadcasting and publishing resources and other types of harassment that can be interpreted as pressures and obstruction of media. The report includes problems like arrests and detentions of journalists, trials of journalists for different reasons, attacks and harassment of journalists and finally the death of journalists.

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions publishes annual report about the violations of labor and union rights that is covering 148 countries and territories. The organization is founded in 1949 and has 225 affiliated organizations in 148 countries. Affiliates are unions, union confederations or peak level associations. Association maintains close links with different UN bodies and has consultative status in some of them. The area of concern of this organization are the respect and defense of trade union and workers' rights, the eradication of forced and child labor, the promotion of equal rights for working women, the environment, education programs for trade unionists and encouragement of unionization of young workers. ICFTU annual report covers the area of labor rights violations and actions against trade unions that took place in the year of the report. Countries are divided into five regions: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Americas, Middle East and Europe. Reports are made by local affiliates of ICFTU. Summary statistics are given for different categories of violations of rights of workers and union activists related to trade union activities:
1. Number of cases of deaths and assassinations
2. Number of cases of beating and torture
3. Number of cases of arrests and detentions
4. Number of cases of strikes and demonstrations repressed
5. Number of cases of unfair dismissals
6. Number of cases of government interference
7. Number of cases of restrictive strike laws

August 26th, 2009

The latest British Behaviour Abroad report released by the FCO pinpoints two areas of rising concern, namely motorbike and moped accidents and the rising number of arrests abroad.

Thailand tops the list on accidents with 269 British deaths there in 2008. The figures mean that Thailand has the highest rate of deaths in proportion to the number of British tourists of any country worldwide. In the same period, an estimated 860,000 British tourists visited Thailand. The majority of 324 reported hospitalisations in Thailand were due to motorbike accidents and a high proportion are fatal.

Wat Thai of Washington, D.C. is viewed as having been founded, informally, when two monks who were invited from Thailand arrived and took residence on July 5, 2517/1974, at a suburban house at 705 Wayne Avenue in Silver Spring. This house was rented by the Buddhist Association in Washington, D.C. for monks' residence and for use as a seat of Buddhist activities of the Association.

Presently, according to the notification the Temple has made to the city government, Wat Thai of Los Angeles usually holds twelve festivals and celebrations every year, viz.,

Vajiradhannnapadip Temple situated in West Bronx, New York City, was filed as a Not-for-Profit Organization under the Religious Cor-poration Law of the State of New York on July 22, 2518/1975. This founding date was both de facto and de jure. It now claims to be the first Thai Buddhist temple in the United States to be a full-fledged temple both legally and ecclesiastically, Legally, it is a legal organization established under local and national law of the country. Ecclesiastically, it conforms to the tradition of the Thai Sangha regarding the administration of monastic affairs. As prescribed in the bylaws of the Temple, the President and the Secretary of the Temple shall be its resident monks, putting executive power in the hands of the ecclesiastical section of its Board of Directors.

Overnight, a new temple called "Vajiradhammapadip Temple" was established at 179th Street in West Bronx. The site is a house on a 4, 121.5 square-foot plot of land purchased with donated funds of $43,000. The two monks moved in to residence on July 21, 2518/1975. The following day the Temple was granted legal status and its official establishment marked. Since then it is this new temple that has been known to the public and has been serving Thai people and Buddhists of other nationalities in the Tri-State areas of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as well as in other neighboring States.

Do you want to live abroad and work as a teacher?

You can teach English to non-English speaking countries. There as a high demand for these professionals especially all across Asia. Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Turkey, Thailand and Taiwan are just some of the Asian countries looking for English speaking teachers. Even European countries like Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and France and also some South American countries like, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Brazil and Argentina offer teaching opportunities

There are two main streams of Visa for the Philippines, Immigrant and Non-Immigrant. The Non-Immigrant stream includes Tourist, Student, Business and Special Resident Investment Visa and Special Resident Retiree Visa. Immigrant visa's are either quota or non-quota, (Quota visa's are limited to 50 per year for very special cases)

The easiest visa to obtain is the Tourist Visa. Simply arrive at Nino Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Manila or Mactan International Airport in Cebu and you will be automatically issued with a 21 Day visa. This can be extended , for a fee, for 38 days, then again for 59 days and additional 59 Day extensions may be granted to a term of one year from arrival. At this point you must leave the country for at least 24 hours and then repeat the process.