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BANGKOK : Thai authorities said on Tuesday four foreign tourists and a local tour guide who died mysteriously in the northern city of Chiang Mai may have been poisoned by unknown toxic chemicals or pesticides.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's new defence minister said on Wednesday there was no plan to sack the army chief, who played a key role in a deadly military crackdown on opposition protests in Bangkok last year.
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MUNICH: Germany has released a plane belonging to Thailand's crown prince which was seized at Munich airport as surety for an outstanding Thai government debt, a court official said Wednesday.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's new Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra finalised her new cabinet on Tuesday, leaving out controversial leaders of the "Red Shirt" protest movement which helped propel her to power.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's first female premier has already clinched a place in the history books, but she could struggle to survive a full term in office and end her country's cycle of instability, analysts say.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's outgoing prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was re-elected on Saturday as leader of the now-opposition Democrat Party, despite fronting their crushing defeat in July's general election.
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BANGKOK - Yingluck Shinawatra is poised to become politically-turbulent Thailand's first female prime minister on Friday after riding to election glory on the coat-tails of her fugitive brother.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's new parliament convened for business for the first time on Tuesday, electing a speaker in initial steps that pave the way for the country's first female prime minister to take power.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's new parliament is to officially open on Monday, faced with the daunting challenge of bringing stability to the kingdom after five years of political turmoil.
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BANGKOK: Thai authorities freed 71 women and girls who had been lured into selling sex in massage parlours and karaoke bars, police said on Saturday, after a crackdown on human trafficking on the Malaysian border.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's new parliament will formally open on Monday, the royal palace has said, paving the way for the selection of the prime minister as early as next week.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's parliament got the go ahead on Wednesday to convene and choose a prime minister after election officials approved the required number of winning candidates from the recent vote.
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PHNOM PENH : Cambodia on Friday called for outside help to resolve its border dispute with Thailand, as the US lent its support to a regional solution following a UN order to remove troops from the frontier.
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WASHINGTON - The United States renewed its call Monday for Thailand and Cambodia to resolve their border rift peacefully after the UN's highest court ordered the countries to pull troops from a disputed area.
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BERLIN: Thailand's foreign minister flew into Berlin Friday for talks on the impounding of an aircraft owned by the Thai crown, but the German government insisted that it was a matter for the courts.
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BANGKOK: Thai prime minister-in-waiting Yingluck Shinawatra said on Wednesday that she was confident that alleged campaign irregularities which are holding up her appointment would be dismissed.
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BANGKOK : Thailand's outgoing government extended a state of emergency across the restive Muslim-majority deep south during its last cabinet meeting on Tuesday following its election loss to the opposition.
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BANGKOK: Riding a wave of support among rural voters, Thailand's incoming premier plans a raft of populist measures to narrow the rich-poor divide, at the risk of higher inflation and public debt.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's premier-in-waiting said Friday that strict rules against insulting the monarchy should not be abused, following several high profile cases against critics of the outgoing government.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's outgoing ruling party on Friday launched legal action seeking to ban the allies of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra from politics following their election victory.
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BANGKOK : Thailand's next leader Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday dismissed mounting speculation that her brother Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 coup, will be given an official role under her tenure.
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BAGAN: Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday welcomed Thailand's election outcome, which paves the way for Yingluck Shinawatra to become the country's first female prime minister.
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BANGKOK: Fresh from victory in Thailand's election, the party of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra met Tuesday to discuss the shape of the next government in the face of high expectations among voters.
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BANGKOK : The political party of Thailand's former leader Thaksin Shinawatra said on Monday it was forming a coalition with four smaller parties to bolster its majority after an election victory.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's "Red Shirt" opposition protest movement on Monday urged their triumphant political allies to "find the truth" behind last year's bloody military crackdown on their mass rally.
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BANGKOK: Outgoing Thai premier Abhisit Vejjajiva resigned as leader of his party on Monday after heavily losing an election to the opposition allied to fugitive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's powerful military will respect a landslide election win by allies of Thaksin Shinawatra who it toppled five years ago, the defence minister said on Monday, easing fears of another coup.
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BANGKOK: Opposition allies of Thailand's former leader Thaksin Shinawatra won a majority of 265 seats out of 500 in the lower house, the election commission said Monday with all votes counted.
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BANGKOK: Allies of Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra will scramble to form a coalition government on Monday after a huge poll victory that reshaped the kingdom's fractured political landscape.
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WASHINGTON: The United States on Sunday hailed the people of Thailand for their "robust participation" in their parliamentary elections, as allies of the Kingdom's fugitive ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra rallied to victory.
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