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Karen Refugees Deportation Halted The plan to deport about 1,700 Karen refugees back to Burma has been halted temporarily because of mounting domestic and global pressure. Activists, led by the Friends of Burma and the Karen Women’s Organization (KWO), yesterday put forward a letter of request to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva subsequent to an earlier [...]

Tourist Hun Sen to Be Near Disputed Territory The Thai-Cambodian border dispute is in the news as Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen today begins a three-day stay which will finish off at the Ta Muan Thom temple in Surin. The government says that while the Cambodian chief is free to go anywhere while on Cambodian [...]

Red Shirts Rally at Military Camps Red-shirted Supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) gathered at the entrances to military sites nationwide on Thursday in a show of resistance to another coup d’etat. About 100 red-shirts led by Weng Tochirakarn assembled in front of the 4th Cavalry Division in Bangkok. They handed [...]

MPs Fume Over Invasive Ethics Code Thai lawmakers have met a draft bill setting out an ethics policy for politicians and civil servants with cries of displeasure. The members of the House say the code is too restraining and impractical to attain. MPs denounced the code yesterday in a house gathering which deliberated the suggested [...]

Thai Airlines CEO Speaks of Immunization Thai Airways International’s new leader wants to bring in what he calls an “immune system” into the organization, to stop interlopers receiving benefits. Piyasvasti Amranand says he will call for staff to fight off what he calls the pressure of interfering politicians and avaricious management. THAI would never live [...]

Puea Party Demands Dubious MPs Depart Democrat Dominated Coalition Thailand’s opposition Puea Thai Party called on the Democrats’ alliance partners to show their position on charter changes by extracting themselves from the government. The ruling Democrat Party last week come to a decision not to join the five other coalition parties in their bid to [...]

Coalition May Unravel It is a possibility that political allies of the ruling Democrat Party would change to join forces with Puea Thai Party to form a new administration in the near future, Puea Thai MP for Nakhon Phanom Phaichit Sriworakarn announced on Saturday. “Some key members of political parties in the Democrat-led coalition administration [...]

Charter Amendments Divide Coalition Partners Time is running short for the coalition government as the association between the Democrats and their allies has gone from bad to worse, and a squad of armored personnel carriers appeared without warning on Bangkok streets, prompting conjecture of another coup in the making. The gap between the Democrats and [...]

Red Shirt Rally Must Remain Respectful Thai Red-shirt marchers are free to rally in front of army headquarters on Friday, but they must obey the law, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban held on Thursday. Members of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) say they will congregate tomorrow to insist the army publicly clarify [...]