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/ 19 November 2006
Asia-Pacific leaders promised progress on freeing up global trade at a summit in Hanoi dominated, as in previous years, by diplomatic manoeuvring over North Korea. Vietnam President Nguyen Minh Triet read a ”Hanoi Declaration” that detailed issues that members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum agreed on, including economic security threats and free trade.
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/ 21 September 2006
Thailand was back to work as normal on Thursday, just 36 hours after a military coup that was condemned abroad but legitimised by the royal palace and greeted by many Thais with relief. A day after the military shut down the city, in the interests of maintaining calm, they said, Bangkok traffic was back to the familiar near-gridlock.