Criminal Defamation Charge Against BBC Reporter Dropped

From the BBC: Criminal defamation charges have been dropped against reporter Jonathan Head. who could have been sentenced to years in a Thai prison had he been convicted. Mr. Head, BBC Southeast Asia correspondont, had reported on a case in which foreign retirees had lost their properties to fraud. The trial against Mr. Head and one of the victims in the fraud case, Ian Rance, began yesterday. More here from the Guardian.