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News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
The anti-government protesters who have paralysed Thailand’s international airport for the past week promised today to abandon their demonstrations, after the country’s Prime Minister was forced from power by the country’s highest court. The...
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
A Thai court disbanded the ruling party Tuesday and barred the prime minister and other party executives from politics, but the party said it was set to reconstitute itself under another name and hold on to power. Antigovernment demonstrators who...
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News Source: Radio Netherlands
| about 1 year ago
The Constitutional Court has ordered the party to disband and has barred Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat and his associates from politics for a period of five years. They were found guilty of tampering with the results of the general elections in...
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News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
Thailand's government has been disbanded and the Prime Minister barred from politics for five years in a court ruling that has prompted fears of a slide into civil war. The Constitution Court was widely expected to find the government guilty of...
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News Source: The Examiner
| about 1 year ago
A court dissolved Thailand 's top three ruling parties for electoral fraud Tuesday and temporarily banned the prime minister from politics, bringing down a government that has faced months of strident protests seeking its ouster. The Constitutional...
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
The protesters, who also have been occupying Mr. Somchai's offices at Government House in central Bangkok since August, have made his resignation their principal demand. They charge that he is a pawn of a fugitive former prime minister,...
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News Source: South Africa News
| about 1 year ago
A grenade attack killed an anti-government protester at a besieged Bangkok airport on Tuesday, as further unrest forced a key hearing on the possible dissolution of the ruling party to move. The incidents raised tensions in an increasingly bloody...
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News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
An anti-government protester has been killed and antoher 22 wounded in a grenade attack on a Bangkok airport. The explosion at Don Mueang airport, which ahs been occupied by members of the Peoples Alliance for Democracy (PAD) for the last week comes...
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News Source: GMA News
| about 1 year ago
Hundreds of pro-government demonstrators swarmed around a court building Tuesday, forcing the relocation of judges who will rule on the fate of a Thai government beset by protests and a virtual shut-down of international air links...Hours earlier, an...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat and Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Anupong Paojinda make for a strange combination. The relationship between them is probably the weirdest thing so far in Thai politics. Married to Thaksin Shinawatra's younger sister...