Soldiers May Face Phone, Internet Monitoring

The Thai army reportedly plans to monitor mobile and land-line phones of its soldiers and their Internet activity to ensure their loyalty, reports the Bangkok Post.

Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha is also said to see this as necessary to protect classified information, according to an unnamed source.

"From now on, conversations on all kinds of phones in army offices will be monitored for any trace of insult to the [royal] institution or the leakage of state secrets," the source...