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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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A Buddhist leader in the Tai province of Chiang Rai has announced plans for a new set of guidelines to curb the behaviour of homosexual and transgender monks.
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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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Suspected Muslim insurgents killed ten civilians in a flurry of attacks in the insurgency-plagued southern Thailand, the army said Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of a...
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Suspected Muslim insurgents killed nine civilians in a flurry of attacks in the insurgency-plagued southern Thailand, the army said Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of a...
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Suspected Muslim insurgents killed eight civilians in a flurry of attacks in the insurgency-plagued southern Thailand, the army said Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of a...
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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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U.S. senators urged Malaysia to probe claims by refugees from Myanmar that Malaysian immigration officials handed them over to human traffickers on Malaysia’s...
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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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While Thai authorities are preoccupied with riots in the capital, a five-year-old Muslim uprising in the south of the country is intensifying, and Thailand’s...
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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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Tuareg rebels fighting the government of Niger released their last hostage on Sunday, an interior minister said on state TV.
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A British hostage who was captured more than seven months ago by Nigeria’s main militant group was freed on Sunday, a senior military official said.
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Nigeria’s main militant group is planning to release a British hostage held in captivity for more than six months.
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A court on Friday convicted 9 workers at Caterpillar France of hampering the freedom to work and 11 others of illegally occupying company grounds, and ordered them all...
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Thousands of demonstrators are marching and singing in the streets of Martinique after officials signed an agreement ending a monthlong strike on the French Caribbean...
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Union leaders said Wednesday they are ending a monthlong strike on the French Caribbean island of Martinique after reaching agreement with employers on a pay raise.
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Negotiations over higher wages and lower food prices are resuming in the French Caribbean island of Martinique where a monthlong strike has turned violent at times.
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Union leaders in Guadeloupe have signed an agreement to suspend a 44-day-old general strike as most of their demands continue to be met.
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Judicial officials have filed preliminary murder charges against a 35-year-old man over the shooting death of a trade union leader during recent unrest in Guadeloupe.
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Negotiations between the government and protesters angry over high prices and other concerns on this French Caribbean island are going well and a six-week general...
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Unions in Guadeloupe scored a victory in getting a deal to raise some workers’ salaries, but said Friday they will not end a general strike now concluding its...
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Bleary-eyed negotiators shuffled past hundreds of striking protesters in a Guadeloupe plaza before dawn Thursday, hailing progress but still short of a deal to end a...
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Vandals burned cars and looted stores in Martinique overnight, police said Wednesday, as violence spread to a second French Caribbean island in protests over high...
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Thousands of Chinese security officials are being trained to deal with possible social unrest as million of rural workers are laid off amid a sharp economic slowdown, a...
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About 3,000 mourners on Sunday turned the funeral for a labor-union activist killed in Guadeloupe into a political demonstration, calling out for higher wages and...
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AP, Pointe-a-pitre
Protests that have nearly shut down the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique are not just about demands for lower prices and higher wages: For...
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Masked demonstrators blocked a highway on Guadeloupe on Friday as another day of negotiations ended without agreement over proposals by France’s president to...
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Calm appeared to be returning to the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe on Friday, officials said, after President Nicolas Sarkozy appealed for an end to violence...
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Two Russian oil workers who were kidnapped two months ago have escaped from their captors and been picked up by the military after a harrowing five-day ordeal, an army...
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German and French trade union flags are seen as workers of car supplier Continental protest against planned factory closures during the annual shareholders meeting in Hanover, northern Germany, Thursday, April 23, 2009.
