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Thai ex-PM's fortunes boosted by electoral results from chapter11 146 days old

By AMBIKA AHUJA June 30, 2009 The Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Two consecutive electoral victories that put allies of former Prime Minister Thaksin ...

Shrinking space for honest debate – Nirmal Ghosh from stopmedia 181 days old

25 May 2009 The Malaysian Insider MAY 25 — Relative calm has returned to Thailand after the turmoil of April – but all is not what it seems. Prime Minister ...

Thailand - World Report 2009 from stopmedia 192 days old

[ ... ] supporting the “red shirts”. But it has been a crackdown on Internet users and intellectuals for alleged crimes of lese-majeste that posed the ...

Thailand postpones Asia leaders summit again from chapter11 194 days old

May 13, 2009 Asia One News BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will try to reconvene a summit of Asian leaders in October, Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said ...

Army Chief denies double standards in handling yellow and red rallies from stopmedia 194 days old

[ ... ] between yellow and red shirts on the night of Sept 1, 2008, he sent three companies of soldiers to intervene because the police force was not ...

Media caught in the middle of Thai conflict from chapter11 198 days old

April 29, 2009By Shawn W. Crispin/Southeast Asia RepresentativeThe Committee to Protect Journalists The media have become part and parcel of Thailand's ...

My friend is my enemy in Thailand from chapter11 200 days old

[ ... ] into their red shirts while still at their respective police stations, according to a source familiar with the situation. That's raised ...

Thailand’s royal sub-plot thickens from chapter11 201 days old

[ ... ] Thaksin and his Red Shirts. So, Thaksin certainly has a motive. But the credibility of the theory that he was behind the assassination bid was ...

Politics takes a murky turn from chapter11 205 days old

Saturday May 2, 2009By PHILIP GOLINGAIThe Star Online The Red Shirts may seem to have been cowed by the military crackdown, but don’t expect the crisis ...

The Bourgeois Revolution from chapter11 208 days old

[ ... ] of law, while the red shirts are seen as an unruly mob. Tactics aside, this is not a useful division: Abhisit's middle-class supporters are not ...