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FEATURE-Thailand's boom: To the northeast, the spoils
ReutersBy Paul Carsten and Pairat Temphairojana UDON THANI, Thailand, June 17(Reuters) - Steel girders jut from the low skyline of the Thai city of Udon Thani near the Laos border as workers lay cement for a new shopping mall, one of many illustrating a boom in...Tags: Abhisit Vejjajiva, Condos, Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Environmental Issues, Vietnam
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Thailand's boom: To the northeast, the spoils
ReutersUDON THANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Steel girders jut from the low skyline of the Thai city of Udon Thani near the Laos border as workers lay cement for a new shopping mall, one of many illustrating a boom in the Thai economy beyond the bright lights of...Tags: Abhisit Vejjajiva, Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Condos, Environmental Issues, Vietnam
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Thai Muslims debate their future as peace talks raise hope
ReutersPATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Huddled in a room on the periphery of a university campus in the southern Thai province of Pattani, Muslim students debate ideas that have long been considered inflammatory or even treasonous. An insurgency by shadowy Muslim...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bangkok (Thailand), Students
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Thai court rules troops responsible for Italian reporter's death
ReutersBy Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK, May 29 (Reuters) - An Italian photo-journalist who was shot dead in Bangkok while taking pictures of a military crackdown on an anti-government protest in 2010 was killed by a bullet fired by a soldier, a Thai court...Tags: Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prisons, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bangkok (Thailand)
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Thailand: The Economy Is Rising, and So Are TV Opportunities
VarietyThailand has a solid tradition of moviegoing, but its main lures for bizzers are its spectacular scenery for location work and well-appointed facilities. There were 636 foreign productions shot in the nation last year, a rise of 45% over the previous...Tags: Bhumibol Adulyadej , Abhisit Vejjajiva, Travel, Politics, World Bank Group
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Japan's Abe ends Myanmar visit with aid, debt write-off
ReutersYANGON, May 26 (Reuters) - Japan on Sunday endorsed Myanmar's reform programme by writing off nearly $2 billion in debt and extending new aid, some of which will help support an industrial zone being developed by Japanese firms near the commercial...Tags: Japan, Nobel Prize Awards, Media Industry, Government, Thailand
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Thai, Lao cabinets end second joint meeting
The Nation, Bangkok, Thailand / Asia News NetworkBANGKOK (The Nation/ANN) -- A government handout photo shows Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, right, shaking hands with Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong during the second Thai-Lao Joint Cabinet meeting in Chiang Mai yesterday. Thailand...Tags: Thailand, Government, Laos, Politics, Germany
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Saving Cameroon's elephants
Check off another majestic animal species your kids will probably never get to see: The forest elephant of Cameroon. Smaller than savanna elephants and with straighter tusks, the intelligent behemoths are being cut down by poachers at a horrifying pace....Tags: Wars and Interventions, Environmental Issues, Thailand, Endangered Species, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Thriving illicit ivory trade decimating African elephant herds
Conservationists battling illicit global trade in endangered species say at least 25,000 African elephants were slaughtered last year by criminal gangs eager to market the lucrative ivory from their tusks. The poachers' take has risen to alarming levels...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Endangered Species, Bangkok (Thailand), China, Google Inc.
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Thai government, Islamic insurgents agree to formal talks
NEW DELHI – The Thai government agreed Thursday to hold its first formal talks with Muslim rebels operating along the country’s southern border, a potential breakthrough in a conflict that has claimed more than 5,000 lives since 2004....
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bangkok (Thailand), Najib Razak
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First female South Korean president faces North Korea crisis
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Park Geun-hye took office as South Korea's first female president Monday, returning to the presidential mansion she had known as the daughter of a dictator, and where she will respond to volatile North Korea, which tested a...
Tags: Kim Jong Il, North Korea, Politics, Entertainment, George W. Bush
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