Ipoh airport eyeing flights from Xiamen
Source: The Star
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-22 16:37:41 -0700 | political-news
With the re-opening of the new RM42mil refurbished Sultan Azlan Shah Airport here, the city is now hoping for direct flights from Xiamen in southeast China. Datuk Bandar Datuk Roshidi Hashim said officials at Xiamen Airlines had indicated interest in...
Thailand: Regularization of Crisis of Freedom of Expression
Source: Scoop
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-22 17:45:24 -0700 | political-news
The Regularization of the Crisis of Freedom of Expression 1...Article 112 of the Criminal Code and the 2007 Computer Crimes Act (CCA) to constrict freedom of expression and intimidate citizens critical of the monarchy (A/HRC/17/NGO/27)...Article 112 and the CCA (A/HRC/20/NGO/37)...
Pull donations case or else, Democrats tell DSI
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-20 10:27:13 -0700 | political-news
I Pull donations case or else, Democrats tell DSI The Nation May 21, 2013 1:00 am Democrat heavyweights have threatened to sue Department of Special Investigation director-general Tarit Pengdith if he refuses to review his agency's decision to press charges...
It's time for Thaksin to respect the rule of law: senior Democrats
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-20 10:27:13 -0700 | political-news
They said Thaksin had been a major source of political conflict in recent years. The remarks came in response to the fugitive ex-leader's claims that accusations made during the post-coup Assets Examination Committee (AEC)'s investigation against him were unfair.
Cooperation boosts war on drugs along Mekong
Source: China News
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-20 18:11:49 -0700 | political-news
China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand launched the action on April 19, aiming to protect merchant sailors and residents along the major trading route through Southeast Asia. It involved setting up a command center staffed by drug enforcement agents from all...
Sex offender jailed for 'evil and callous' plan
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-20 03:48:42 -0700 | political-news
Mark Pendleton, 53, was found guilty of conspiring with another paedophile to travel to Thailand and abuse children. The plan was hatched while Pendleton was serving a jail term for more than 100 offences committed while he was a pre-primary...
Thousands of Thai Red Shirts mark deadly crackdown
Source: China Post
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-19 11:59:18 -0700 | political-news
Around 20,000 Red Shirt protesters rallied in Bangkok Sunday to mark the third anniversary of a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests which exposed Thailand's deep divisions, police said. About 90 people were killed and nearly 1,900 wounded in a series...
PM has 'no plan to reshuffle Cabinet'
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-19 11:01:06 -0700 | political-news
Red-shirt leaders Jatuporn Prompan, Apiwan Wiriyachai and Pakorn Buranupakorn were reported to be likely appointments as ministers in the next Cabinet reshuffle expected early next month, according to a source from the ruling Pheu Thai Party. Suranand said although all...
Pheu Thai demands apologies from Democrat leaders
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-19 11:01:00 -0700 | political-news
More than 10,000 red shirts from different parts of the country converged at the Ratchaprasong intersection to commemorate the third anniversary of the event. The area was off limits to traffic from the Ratchaprasong intersection to the Pratunam intersection.
‘Patronage politics not an offshoot of PH culture, grew during US colonial period'
Source: Inquirer.net
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-19 02:06:43 -0700 | political-news
Philippines Patronage politics is not necessarily an offshoot of Filipino culture and it is common in other Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, according to an American professor visiting the Philippines to study patronage politics during the...
Some in Thailand's Pheu Thai party oppose amnesty plan
Source: United Press International
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-18 17:18:01 -0700 | political-news
Some rank-and-file members of the Pheu Thai Party oppose a proposal for blanket amnesty for the May 2010 riots in Thailand. Deputy Premier Chalerm Yubamrung enthusiastically endorses the proposal, the Bangkok Post reported Saturday. But in the ranks, dissidents say...
Family-Sized Savings on Kensingtons Kidtastic Asia Adventures for Summer 2013
Source: Myanmar News
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-18 13:16:50 -0700 | political-news
Family-Sized Savings on Kensington's Kidtastic Asia Adventures for Summer 2013 ) With summer vacation on the horizon, Kensington Tours, the leading tour company specializing in private guided travel to over 90 countries worldwide, is offering families special savings on its...
Training begins for reconciliation moderators
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-17 11:24:55 -0700 | political-news
Tongthong Chantharangsu said 400 moderators will be divided into two groups, the first undergoing training today and tomorrow and the second on May 25 and 26. The moderators will organise hearings on reconciliation, based on the findings of the Truth...
Thai Patriotic Front steps up pressure on govt to resign
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-17 11:24:53 -0700 | political-news
Chaiwat Sinsuwong, a leader of the group, said the mass rally would begin at 5pm and continue until the government agreed to step down. A few hundred Thai Patriotic Front members have been camping in Sanam Luang since May 7,...
British foreign office minister to attend Strategic Dialogue meeting next week
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-17 02:24:02 -0700 | political-news
The dialogue, which was set up by the Thai and British prime ministers last November, is a mechanism for high-level bilateral discussion to follow up and set the directions of mutual cooperation in various dimensions in the future. This is...
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