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Thais went to the polls Sunday to vote in the country’s first elections for the upper house of Parliament since a 2006 military coup ousted elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.The 76 members of the Senate to be elected, one from each of the...
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A Thai protest leader who survived an assassination attempt said Sunday he believes he was attacked by soldiers who were assigned to silence him because he knows too...
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Hundreds of thousands of people are still without decent jobs and housing a year after Cyclone Nargis ripped through Myanmar, leaving many vulnerable to the coming...
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Thailand said Wednesday that it will not interfere in the extradition hearing of an alleged Russian arms smuggler whom the United States wants to put on trial but...
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Southeast Asia will be hit particularly hard by climate change, causing the region’s agriculture-dependent economies to contract by as much as 6.7 percent...
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Southeast Asia will be hit particularly hard by climate change, causing the region’s agriculture-dependent economies to contract by as much as 6.7 percent...
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Thousands of supporters of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra held their first anti-government rally Saturday since their protests earlier this month turned...
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The food crisis that hit many developing countries last year is likely to re-emerge following the recession and Asian countries must take measures to protect poor...
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Thai protesters who led riots in Bangkok last week called for a new rally this weekend, just hours after the prime minister lifted an emergency decree and said the...
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Thailand’s prime minister Friday lifted a state of emergency imposed in the capital following anti-government riots by supporters of ousted former leader Thaksin...
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Bullet casings found after a brazen assassination attempt on a leader of protests that shut Bangkok’s airport last year have been traced to the army,...
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Thailand’s anti-government movement will stage new protest actions in the next few days following a military crackdown that ended deadly rioting last week, the...
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Authorities on Sunday extended a state of emergency in Thailand’s capital, saying efforts to restore security were still incomplete after anti-government rioting...
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A brazen attack by gunmen Friday wounded the protest leader who helped topple Thailand’s government in 2006 and paralyzed the capital last year, reheating...
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The founder of Thailand’s “yellow shirt” protest movement that shut down Bangkok airports last year was shot and wounded in a drive-by attack Friday,...
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Thai police say the leader of protests that shut down Bangkok airports last year was shot and wounded by two gunmen.
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Thailand’s fugitive former leader, who called for revolution earlier this week as his supporters’ riots paralyzed Bangkok, urged the protests’ leaders...
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Thailand’s fugitive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra now has a Nicaraguan passport, complicating efforts to extradite him as Thai authorities pressed ahead...
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Thailand’s government has revoked the personal passport of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra following several days of demonstrations that paralyzed...
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Police hunted Wednesday for 10 leaders of an anti-government movement after combat troops quashed violent demonstrations in Thailand’s capital. An arrest warrant...
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Oil prices slipped below $49 in Asian trade Wednesday as new signs of deterioration in the world’s three biggest economies _ the U.S., China and Japan _...
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More than a century before Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson’s right breast at the Super Bowl halftime show, the opera world had its own “wardrobe...
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In a photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera Renee Fleming as Thais and Thomas Hampson as Athanel perform in the final dress rehearsal for Massenet’s “Thais” Friday Dec. 5, 2008 in New York.
