News Source: Asian Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Friday at this elite beach resort in Thailand amid tight security, with a plan to launch an intergovernmental human rights commission and consider how to achieve economic integration by 2015. Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
The commission, signed on the first day of a regional summit at the Thai resort of Hua Hin, faces criticism that it will be too soft on members such as military-ruled Myanmar. The UN has urged leaders to make "credible" the body, which is meant to...
News Source: Xtra News
| about 1 month ago
Prime Minister John Key will be flying into a political whirlwind when he arrives in Thailand tonight for this weekend's East Asia Summit. Security is intense with more than 18,000 soldiers and police still guarding the seaside resort of Hua Hin with...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 month ago
The Cambodian government said on Friday it would not extradite fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra if he took refuge here, upping the ante in the war of words with its neighbour. On Friday, the Cambodian government asserted in a statement...
News Source: Epoch Times
| about 1 month ago
Focuses on Rights, Trade Amid Tight Security Reuters Oct 22, 2009 HUA HIN, Thailand—Thousands of troops swarmed over the Thai seaside resort town of Hua Hin on Friday for a twice-postponed Asian leaders' summit to tackle issues from human rights...
News Source: The Star
| about 1 month ago
The three-day Association of South-Eeast Asian Nations (Asean) conference was due to launch a pivotal but sharply criticised human rights commission and discuss how best to achieve economic integration by 2015. It also will include talks with the...