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/ 25 November 2008
Police have reported that protesters have besieged the Thai prime minister’s temporary offices in their latest bid to stop the government functioning.
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/ 24 November 2008
Thousands of Thai protesters forced Parliament to close and surrounded the prime minister’s makeshift offices at an old airport on Monday.
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/ 21 October 2008
African nations, which buy about nine million tonnes of rice a year from Asia, are likely to import the bulk of white rice from Pakistan and Vietnam.
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/ 21 October 2008
Thailand’s Supreme Court found ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra guilty of conflict of interest on Tuesday over a land deal for his wife.
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/ 17 October 2008
Thailand Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat rejected pressure to resign on Friday, as thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched in protest.
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/ 14 October 2008
Thailand said on Tuesday it was ready to respond militarily if attacked by Cambodia.
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/ 25 September 2008
Thailand’s Court of Appeals on Thursday confirmed a two-year jail term for defamation on former prime minister Samak Sundaravej.
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/ 17 September 2008
Thailand’s Parliament elected a brother-in-law of ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister on Wednesday.
Thailand’s former prime minister appeared in court last week to defend his popular cooking show.
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/ 9 September 2008
A Thai court on Tuesday ordered Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to resign for accepting payments for hosting TV cooking shows.
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/ 7 September 2008
Protests in Bangkok are dominated by the baleful influence of the former prime minister.
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/ 2 September 2008
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej declared a state of emergency in Bangkok on Tuesday and gave the army control of public order.
Thousands of royalist protesters stormed the compound of Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, a TV station and several ministries on Tuesday.
Thousands of royalist protesters stormed Thai state broadcaster NBT on Tuesday as a part of demonstrations to try to overthrow the elected government.
Love at first sight, even through an air-conditioned prism of cheap beer, purple lights and men leering, is easy to find in Bangkok’s bars.
Thailand removes copies of the Grand Theft Auto computer game from shops after a teenager allegedly killed a taxi driver in a copycat crime.
It’s not surprising tourism is Thailand’s number-one employment generator. It’s amazing to walk down the street at any time of the day without fear.
Duangrit Bunnag scans the murky white high-rises that sketch Bangkok’s haphazard skyline, despairing of the drab view from his architecture firm’s clean and minimalist office. He despairs of the overdone pseudo-Thai villas that seem to spring up on every stretch of available sand.
A furious rescue worker accused Burma’s military junta on Monday of crimes against humanity for refusing to fast-track visas for aid officials desperate to enter the country to help the 1,5-million survivors of Cyclone Nargis. ”They say they will call, but it’s always wait, wait, wait,” Pierre Fouillant of the Comite de Secours Internationaux, a French disaster rescue agency.
A few aid shipments had arrived in Burma’s main city by Thursday, but the planeloads of supplies and heavy equipment needed to help millions of cyclone victims remain largely stranded outside the country. In a dramatic development, the ruling junta agreed to accept United States emergency aid after last weekend’s cyclone.
As climate-change guilt among tourists grows, hotels and resorts are finding they need to do more to please the green consumer than simply ask them to re-use their towels. Undersea air-cooling systems, intelligent lighting and spas constructed entirely from mud are all being employed to woo tourists concerned about their carbon footprint.
There have been numerous disagreements during a week of intense climate-change talks in Bangkok but there is one point all sides agree on — a long, tough road lies ahead. The five-day negotiations stretched past midnight on Friday before reaching a deal aimed solely at setting up more talks.
More than 160 nations agreed in Bangkok on Friday to consider how to reduce rapidly growing greenhouse gas emissions from air and sea travel, in an early move towards a new global-warming treaty. The accord was the first hurdle in succeeding the Kyoto agreement in the fight against climate change.
Developing countries and environmental groups accused the World Bank on Friday of trying to seize control of the billions of dollars of aid that will be used to tackle climate change in the next four decades. ”The World Bank’s foray into climate change has gone down like a lead balloon,” Friends of the Earth campaigner Tom Picken said.
Air travel is booming as the world’s population grows and fares fall, but its impact on the Earth’s sensitive climate must be taken into account in any new global-warming pact, green groups say. More than 900 delegates flew into Bangkok this week for a meeting on global warming, spewing about 4 181 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a common human purpose to defeat global warming. ”The world is waiting for a solution that is long-term and economically viable,” said United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
Canadian paedophile suspect Christopher Neil went on trial in Thailand on Monday, more than four months after he was arrested in a global man-hunt triggered by ”swirly face” images of abuse found on the internet. Neil pleaded not guilty to four charges of molesting and distributing pornographic images of two Thai boys.
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/ 28 February 2008
Ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra made an emotional return from exile on Thursday, swearing to stay out of politics despite a widespread belief he would run the country from behind the scenes. Within minutes of arriving, the telecoms billionaire surrendered to police on a corruption charge.
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/ 27 February 2008
Thailand, trying to recover from two years of political turmoil, braced for the return of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from nearly 18 months in exile on Thursday, with his battle against an array of opponents far from over. Rivals ranging from the royalist establishment to street-protest leaders will confront Thaksin.
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/ 8 February 2008
A Thai soccer referee was beaten up by an entire team after sending off three of their players during a match to decide promotion to country’s second division, local media reported on Friday. Referee Prakong Sukguamala needed 50 stitches and also broke a finger after being attacked by the Kuiburi FC squad.
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/ 6 February 2008
As Chinese prepare for Year of the Rat celebrations, roadside entrepreneurs in Thailand are serving rodent meat, uncooked or ready to eat, and customers are snapping it up for 150 baht (,82) a kilogram. These rats are the kind found in rice fields, not the filthy garbage-can-marauders familiar to city-dwellers.
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/ 28 January 2008
Thai lawmakers elected Samak Sundaravej, an ally of deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra, as the nation’s new Prime Minister on Monday, restoring civilian leadership after 16 months of military rule. Samak, a veteran politician in his own right, is widely expected to try to clear the way for Thaksin to return to Thailand.