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Did Malaysia blame Thailand for the Thai-Cambodia clashes?

Thu, 12 May 2011 12:04:00 -0700

Associated Press - May. 12 - “An agreement had been agreed upon, (Thailand) should adhere to it, I wouldn’t want to say lacking in faith… (but) they did not adhere to the agreement,” Malaysian deputy foreign minister Richard Riot Jaem told reporters. “Thailand refused and that’s why

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Who is the 'Merchant of Death?'

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By CNN Wire Staff - Nov. 17 (News Report) - He's known as the "Merchant of Death" and the "Lord of War," -- an alleged international arms dealer straight out of a cloak-and-dagger spy novel who eluded authorities for years and inspired Hollywood villains.

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What the Heck Is Going on in Thailand?

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Joshua Kurlantzick - May. 20 (News Analysis) - the unrest that has consumed the popular vacation destination since the first spark of violence on April 10 is less surprising to the Thais themselves. Thailand's idyllic image has overshadowed serious tensions that have been building for nearly a decade and finally exploded this month. Thailand's rapid, globalization-driven economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s left out a large portion of the population, primarily those living in the rural north and northeast.

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Thai Civil War Cannot be Won by Bullets and Tear Gas - NAM

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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How did Thailand come to this?

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Vaudine England - May. 19 (News Analysis) - Three months ago, Bangkok appeared to be a successful South East Asian capital city - now government troops and anti-government protesters are fighting in the streets. The BBC's Vaudine England considers how it came to this.

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Protest Leaders Surrender in Thailand

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thomas Fuller, Seth Mydans, Kirk Semple - May. 19 (News Report) - A crackdown on antigovernment protesters launched by the Thai military on Wednesday degenerated into riots, firebombing attacks, looting and street battles after militants allied with the protest movement resisted the army’s onslaught with grenades and assault weapons.

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Bangkok burns after Thai protest leaders arrested

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Denis D. Gray - May. 19 (News Report) - Downtown Bangkok became a flaming battleground Wednesday as an army assault forced anti-government protest leaders to surrender, enraging followers who shot grenades and set fire to landmark buildings, cloaking the skyline in black smoke.

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Thai soldiers advance on protesters' camp; 'red shirt' leaders flee

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Andrew Higgins - May. 19 (News) - Thai soldiers launched an assault Wednesday against "red shirt" protesters in a military operation that forced anti-government protest leaders to surrender but left parts of Bangkok in the grip of near-anarchy.

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Debating the Crisis in Thailand: Is Red Shirt Movement a Genuine Grassroots Struggle, or Front for Ousted Ex-PM, Billionaire Tycoon?

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 18 (News Analysis) - In Thailand, the government has rejected an offer by anti-government protesters to enter talks after a bloody week in Bangkok that has left at least thirty-eight protesters dead. Some fear the standoff could lead to an undeclared civil war. The protesters are mostly rural and urban poor who are part of a group called the UDD, the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, more commonly known as the Red Shirts. We host a debate between Giles Ji Ungpakorn, a Thai dissident living in exile in Britain who supports the Red Shirt movement; and Philip Cunningham, a freelance journalist who has covered Asia for over twenty years.

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Rights groups comment on Thailand protests

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

United Press International - May. 18 (News) - BANGKOK, May 18 (UPI) -- Amnesty International says Thai soldiers firing live ammunition during clashes with anti-government protesters in Bangkok are violating people's right to life.

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Thailand protests: army prepares to storm redshirts' camp

Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ben Doherty - May. 16 (News) - On the fourth day of bloodshed the Thai government orders all women and children to leave the protesters? camp before a final army offensive Thailand?s worsening political conflict faces a new deadline, with the government ordering all women and children to leave the redshirts? camp in central Bangkok by 3pm tomorrow before a final offensive to forcibly remove anybody remaining. Bloodshed continued for a fourth day, with 31 people killed since Thursday in battles between anti-government protesters and soldiers. As the army surrounded the redshirts? protest site, a second part of the city, Bon Kai, was declared a "live fire zone". Generals have warned that anybody walking into those areas will be shot on sight. In flashpoints across ...

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Deadly clashes erupt in Bangkok

Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - May. 14 (News Report) - At least seven people have been killed and more than 100 injured after clashes erupted in the Thai capital as security forces attempted to seal off an anti-government protest camp. Explosions and gunfire were heard in Bangkok's business district on Friday as the so-called red shirts battled with troops using tear gas and rubber bullets.

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Thai Protesters Storm Hospital

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thanyarat Doksone, Jocelyn Gecker, Grant Peck, Ravi Nessman, Stephen Wright - Apr. 30 (News) - A major Thai hospital evacuated patients and suspended all but emergency surgery Friday after anti-government protesters stormed in to hunt for security forces they suspected were taking positions there overlooking their barricaded enclave.

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No room for intimidation

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bangkok Post - Apr. 20 (Editorial) - The leaders of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) are threatening to begin a dangerous and decidedly undemocratic plan today. The red shirt leadership was publicising and considering a plan to "expand" its intrusive and unwelcome base in the main Bangkok shopping area. Supposedly the red shirts now want to demonstrate on Silom Road. The plan being discussed throughout Sunday and Monday involved occupying yet another part of the city's business section. The UDD must refrain from any such plan to widen the protest, and in fact should talk on how to get its demonstrations out of the busiest parts of Bangkok, where they interfere with the rights of millions of fellow citizens and foreign visitors alike.

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Whiff of Rebellion Spreads in Thai Hinterland

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thomas Fuller - Apr. 20 (News) - Hundreds of miles away from Bangkok, the region of Isaan is alive with passionate political activism, heavily directed against the Thai prime minister.

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Month of Unrest Hits Thailand's Economy

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Seth Mydans - Apr. 19 (News) - Troops patrolled Bangkok's financial district on Monday in a show of force as red-shirt protesters threatened a march Tuesday that could incite a new confrontation.

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Thai troops guard business zone

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Apr. 19 (News) - Thai soldiers armed with machine guns patrolled Bangkok's business district on Monday to keep thousands of anti-government protesters from marching there, raising fears of fresh violence in the polarised country.

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Thailand's Elites Resist Democracy

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Andrew Lam - Apr. 17 (Opinion) -

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Thai Protesters Still Occupy Parts of Bangkok

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thomas Fuller - Apr. 12 (News Report) - The battle of wills between the Thai government and tens of thousands of protesters barricaded in the streets of Bangkok appeared to turn in favor of the protesters Monday when the country’s army chief shunned a military solution to the crisis and the prime minister’s party suddenly and unexpectedly faced the prospect of dissolution.

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In Thailand protesters killed in clashes with police as pressure mounts on prime minister

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Thai red-shirts target TV station

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 09 (News) - Thai red-shirt protesters march towards a TV station to restore broadcasts, a day after the government shut it down.

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Southern China turning into arid plain

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jonathan Watts - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - The government has embarked on a massive rain-making operation, firing thousands of cloud-seeding rockets into the sky In pictures: Drought in south-west China and the Mekong basin It is hard to imagine a less fitting environment for a mollusc than the arid plain of Damoguzhen in south-west China. There is not a drop of water in sight. The baked and fissured earth resembles an ancient desert. Yet shellfish are scattered here in their thousands; all so recently perished that shriveled, blackened bodies are still visible inside cracked, opened shells. Far out of water, the aquatic animals are not the advance guard of evolutionary progress; but the victims of a drought that has devastated their habitat and now threatens the livelihoods ...

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Burmese Migrant Workers Fear New Thai Work Permit Rules

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Voice of America - Feb. 10 (News) - Burmese migrant workers in Thailand fear new immigration and work permit procedures will make life harder for them and their families back home.

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Blood flows in Thailand's deep south | Duncan McCargo

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Dec. 02 (Opinion) - Little reported and little understood, Malay Muslims? separatist campaign in the southern provinces is intensifying again Thailand?s former prime minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh recently ignited a furore when he proposed that the separatist campaign in his country?s Muslim-majority southern provinces might be solved politically, with a form of self-rule . Thailand?s ruling Democrat party immediately called Chavalit?s remarks "traitorous". But recent developments surrounding Afghanistan?s elections have highlighted the shortcomings of using military force alone to resolve a civil war. This precedent offers an important lesson for Thailand and other countries facing intractable insurgencies. As Aristotle put it, "politics is the master science in the realm of action". In June 2006, I sat in a village in southern Thailand?s Yala province with several ordinary-looking young men who had taken part in extraordinary events. They had joined the militants who had attacked a dozen security ...

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Thailand in Troubled Waters

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Andrew Lam - Apr. 14 (News Analysis) - Once the envy of its neighbors – Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Cambodia and Malaysia, which suffered under colonial rules – Thailand alone in Southeast Asia developed independently and in peace. But the tourist Mecca of Southeast Asia has lately shown its grimmer side, one that it can no longer keep under wraps.

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