A Thai court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to two years in jail for selling satirical calendars featuring rubber ducks, which authorities said insulted the king. Inflatable yellow ducks were used as a symbol during pro-democracy protests in 2020. The sentencing comes as two women were rushed to hospital after staging a weeks-long hunger strike demanding the release of those arrested under Thailand's draconian lèse majesté law. For more, we talk to Sunai Phasuk, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch.
Meanwhile, South Korea's president is to visit Japan after Seoul proposed a controversial plan to compensate victims of forced labour during Japanese occupation.
And a new manga book hits the shelves in Japan: one that's been created entirely by artificial intelligence.
