| Thailand, Cambodia Open Talks on Border Dispute
VOA
The foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia are meeting this week to end a border dispute over an ancient temple. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, the talks follow an agreement reached last...
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| Thai protesters want ex-PM back from UK for trial
Find Law
Several thousand protesters gathered outside the British Embassy on Tuesday to demand that London extradite former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to face criminal...
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| Thailand declares Glitter
Breitbart
Thailand declared British former glam rocker Gary Glitter "persona non grata" Wednesday and threatened to deport him back to Vietnam, where he has just finished prison time for child sex offences....
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| Thailand declares Glitter persona non grata
KeralaNext
Thailand declared British former glam rocker Gary Glitter "persona non grata" Wednesday and threatened to deport him back to Vietnam, where he has just finished prison time for child sex...
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| Cambodia Eyes Peaceful End To Thai Border Temple Conflict
Morning Star
Over the weekend, up to 1,000 Cambodian and Thai troops pulled back from a small patch of disputed land near Cambodia's 11th-century Preah Vihear temple, suggesting an end to the month-long...
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| Thailand denies entry to jail-house rocker Glitter
Earth Times
Bangkok - Thailand on Wednesday denied entry to Gary Glitter after the former British glam rock star refused to board a plane to London after finishing a jail term in Vietnam for sexually abusing two...
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| Glitter refuses to leave Bangkok airport
Stuff
Shamed glam rocker Gary Glitter is stuck at Bangkok airport after refusing to board a flight to Britain following his deportation from Vietnam, where he had spent nearly three years in prison for...
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| Glitter boards flight for Bangkok after release from prison
Yahoo! News
Glitter's sentence called for his deportation from the communist country following his release. Thai immigration officials told AFP that Glitter would only transit through Bangkok en...
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| Thai authorities hold rocker Glitter
CNN Asia
British glam rocker Gary Glitter remained confined in the transit lounge of a Bangkok, Thailand, airport Wednesday while officials negotiated with him to get on a flight to London, England.
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| Thailand declares Glitter 'persona non grata'
Yahoo! News
... via Bangkok to London, he complained of chest pains during transit here and did not board the plane, airline officials said. A doctor examined him in the transit lounge and said Glitter was...
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| Thai Central Administration Court To Rule On Mins
Morning Star
Thailand's Supreme Administrative Court has said that the decision on whether Finance Minister Surapong Suebwonglee and two other ministers should step down amid an ongoing court case...
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| Gary Glitter out of Vietnam jail; still at Bangkok airport
Times of India
Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter fell ill during the night, missing his flight to London from Bangkok after he left Vietnam on his release from prison, a medical official said on...
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| No agreement yet for Thai-Cambodian foreign ministers
People's Daily
No new agreement has been reached yet after hours of negotiations between Thai and Cambodian delegations led by respective foreign ministers over the disputed border around the Preah Vihear temple on...
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| Student protesters caned by teacher Pupils marched against their school
Bangkok Post
A teacher at a school facing relocation to make way for the new parliamentary site has been accused of caning eight students, including a girl who was allegedly struck 18 consecutive times. ...
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| Suspect held for murder
Bangkok Post
Police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a traffic policeman who tried to arrest illegal motorbike racers in the early morning of Jirawat Putbumrung, 20, was apprehended last night in...
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| Police unit to be upgraded
Bangkok Post
The cabinet yesterday approved in principle an upgrade of the national police's forward operation centre in Yala to aid operations dealing with the ongoing violence in the deep South. Deputy...
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| Samak clears the air with party members
Bangkok Post
People Power Party leader Samak Sundaravej cleared the air with disgruntled PPP members over the distribution of arrest warrants for Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, a party source said. Mr...
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| EC defers decision on PPP
Bangkok Post
The Election Commission has deferred its decision on the fate of the People Power party (PPP) for two weeks, so its investigators have time to photocopy a document. The commissioners were due to...
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| China asked for river info
Bangkok Post
The Mekong River Commission in Thailand has asked the Foreign Ministry for help in its bid for information from China regarding its management of sluice gates on the Mekong river. The move...
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| Qualified people only may apply
Bangkok Post
Being a beggar will not be so easy anymore if draft legislation approved by the cabinet yesterday becomes law. The bill proposed by the Human Security and Social Development Ministry sets conditions...
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| Interim pact on settling border dispute
Bangkok Post
Phetchaburi : Thailand and Cambodia yesterday agreed to an interim agreement to solve the row over the disputed border area surrounding the Preah Vihear temple. The agreement was reached in the...
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| PAD demands UK extradite ex-PM for trial
Bangkok Post
Thousands of supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy marched to the British embassy yesterday, demanding that London deny political asylum to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra...
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| Union vows to fight BMTA budget cuts
Bangkok Post
A Transport Ministry-backed plan to shed almost 3,800 employees from the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority payroll could face stiff union opposition. The ministry says in addition having old...
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| Extraditing Vatana could be a tough task
Bangkok Post
Bringing convicted one-time deputy interior minister Vatana Asavahame back from Cambodia could be difficult because his offences were committed before Bangkok and Phnom Penh had an extradition...
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| Shamed Glitter in Thai hotel claiming a heart attack
The Scotsman
No is he nothing if not smart - claim a heart attack and no doubt the taxpayers will have to provide him with a private jet/air ambulance to bring him 'home'. I say make him walk home.
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| Eight BMA officials on land scam charges
Bangkok Post
The National Counter Corruption Commission has resolved to charge former Bangkok governor Bhichit Rattakul and seven other senior officials of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration for...
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| The plan to replace slums with parks
Bangkok Post
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's plan to remove all city slums, replacing them with public parks is appalling but not surprising. It's no surprise either that his controversial plan (or...
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| Mastering the art of chairmanship
Bangkok Post
In late July of this year, Thailand took over the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) from Singapore. During the next year, it will also host a number of key summits...
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| The long arm of the law
Bangkok Post
It took almost two decades from the initial public exposure of massive corruption involving the 23-billion-baht Klong Dan waste water treatment project for the case to run its course, but now justice...
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