Thai security chief dismisses southern rebels' demands
Source: Reuters
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-30 02:11:36 -0700 | travel-news
Topics Thai security personnel inspect the site of a roadside bomb attack in the southern province of Pattani April 11, 2013. Thailand's national security chief said on Tuesday that talks between rebel leaders and his government aimed at ending a...
UN Initiative to Achieve ‘Zero Hunger' in Asia and Pacific
Source: Scoop
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-29 15:48:15 -0700 | travel-news
The United Nations today launched the Zero Hunger Challenge in Asia and the Pacific, calling on governments, farmers, scientists, business, civil society and consumers to work together to end hunger in the region where the majority of the world's undernourished...
Thai rebels press for independence, set to scupper peace talks
Source: Reuters
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-29 08:07:12 -0700 | travel-news
Topics Civilians, security forces and rescue workers gather at the site of an attack in the troubled southern province of Yala September 15, 2012. Leaders of a Muslim rebel group in southern Thailand said they will press for an independent...
Thai 'Yellow Shirts' face court over airport rallies
Source: Qatar English Daily
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-28 22:08:34 -0700 | travel-news
Dozens of Thai royalist activists will appear in court Monday to deny charges relating to 2008 rallies that paralysed Bangkok's main airports stranding thousands of tourists, their lawyer said. Around 100 members of the nationalist People Alliance for Democracy (PAD)...
News of the Day From Across the Globe, April 29
Source: SF Gate
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-28 22:13:33 -0700 | travel-news
In a dramatic about-face, Icelandic voters have returned to power the center-right parties that led the national economy to collapse five years ago...The parties, who are promising tax cuts and debt relief, are likely to form a coalition government.
Thailand's southern rebels set demands for peace discussion
Source: China Post
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-28 11:59:54 -0700 | travel-news
An insurgent group that started peace talks with the Thai government last month announced Sunday five demands while vowing to continue fighting. We will continue the fight to get rid of colonial rule and oppression of Pattani Malay, said Barisan...
4 killed as bridge collapses in central Thailand
Source: Boston.com
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-28 10:44:04 -0700 | travel-news
Police say at least four people were killed when a small bridge collapsed near Thailand's ancient capital of Ayutthaya...Jitkasem Sonkham says several motorcycle drivers and their vehicles fell into the Pasak river Sunday while they were crossing the suspension bridge...
Denise van Outen revisits vibrant Koh Samui, Thailand
Source: Mail Online UK
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-28 04:26:10 -0700 | travel-news
28 April 2013 I first came to Koh Samui 13 years ago when it was still a bit of a hippy paradise. It was about the time that the film version of Alex Garland's book The Beach starring Leonardo DiCaprio...
Thai tourists stranded mid-air as monorail stops working
Source: Zee News
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-27 13:20:57 -0700 | travel-news
Twenty foreign and Thai tourists were stranded mid-air for an hour after an electric monorail stopped working at a zoo in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Mai frequented by several Indian visitors every month.
Another pair of yellow shirts indicted over 2008 sieges of Bangkok's airports
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-26 10:39:28 -0700 | travel-news
They were charged with unlawful assembly with more than 10 persons to create a disturbance, and using weapons to encroach on property with intention to harm others. They were also charged with collaborating with more than two persons to use...
AXA Insurance eyes 15% growth
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-23 10:26:16 -0700 | travel-news
The insurer projects ambitious growth of 15 per cent, with Bt3.1 billion in gross written premiums, which is the total premiums written and assumed by an insurance company before deductions for reinsurance and ceding commissions...The company earned Bt1.62 billion of...
UN urges crisis prevention, mitigation steps
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-23 10:25:55 -0700 | travel-news
Meanwhile, Myanmar President Thein Sein has been invited to attend Escap's regional development policy forum, which starts tomorrow in Bangkok. The best solution to a likely rise in the number of crises is to ensure prevention and mitigation measures are...
Wild Photos From The World's Biggest Water Fight In Thailand
Source: BusinessInsider
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-18 11:00:15 -0700 | travel-news
Damir Sagolj Participants went all out during Bangkok's Songkran Festival last Saturday April 13, 2013. Thailand's Songkran New Year Festival used to signify a cleansing of bad luck and a new beginning. The younger generation would ask for the blessings...
Thai Muslim insurgents increase attacks
Source: United Press International
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-12 11:56:00 -0700 | travel-news
Muslim insurgents in Thailand's southern Pattani province have mounted 35 attacks in a single night. The Wednesday assaults resulted in the deaths of two Royal Thai Army paramilitary rangers. Despite the assaults, National Security Council Secretary-General Paradorn Pattanatabutr said that...
Chalerm does not deserve role in South
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-10 11:12:53 -0700 | travel-news
Another senior provincial official was also killed in the bombing. It appears that some insurgents are unhappy with the ongoing peace process and want it to collapse. It is also likely that some separatist groups that have been excluded from...
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