The sister of a British backpacker murdered in Thailand has attacked the country’s authorities for dismissing her family’s grief.

Two men who could face the death penalty for the murders of a pair of British backpackers in Thailand are “confident” they will be acquitted as they prepare to learn their fate today, their legal team has said.

Burma’s repressive government was allowing access to banned news websites today for the first time in years, including several operated by exiled dissidents.