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Children become latest victims of Thai violence

March 1, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Thanyarat Doksone Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) – The father grimaced and wept, as he struggled to contain his grief at the death of his two children in a grenade attack during a weekend trip to a mall in downtown Bangkok — the latest casualties in Thailand’s months of political crisis.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, Democrat Party, KFC, Kamthorn Auicharoen, Prayuth Chan-ocha, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Tayakorn Yos-ubon, Thailand, UNICEF, Vol 33 No 10 | March 1 - March 7

Thai protesters call for nationwide uprising; gov’t threatens arrests

November 27, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Thanyarat Doksone Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra fought a two-front political war

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Akanat Promphan, Associated Press, Democracy Monument Nov, Democrat Party, Finance Ministry, Interior Ministry, Khaosan Road, Laura Love, Northwest Asian Weekly, Pheu Thai Red Shirts, Sue Misao, Surat Thani, Suthep Thaugsuban, Vol 32 No 49 | November 30 - December 6, Yellow Shirt, Yingluck Shinawatra

Thai Senate kills contentious amnesty bill

November 17, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Thanyarat Doksone Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) – Thailand’s Senate has defeated an amnesty bill that could have led to the return from exile of deposed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, but opponents of the bill vowed to continue their protests against the government.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, Associated Press, Democrat Party, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thai Senate, Thailand, Vol 32 No 47 | November 16 - November 22

Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin plans early return from exile

April 21, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Grant Peck The Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra celebrated Thailand’s most important holiday in neighboring Cambodia this weekend, telling thousands of fervent supporters who crossed the border to meet him that he intends to return home soon on his own terms.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2010, 2012, Cambodia, Chulalongkorn University, Democrat Party, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Straits Times, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Red Shirt, Thai New Year, Thailand, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Vol 31 No 17 | April 21 - April 27, Yellow Shirt

Banking fugitive back in Thailand

November 5, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BANGKOK (AP) _ A fugitive, former adviser to a Thai bank whose failure caused a crisis of confidence that helped spark the 1997 Asian financial meltdown, was back in Bangkok last Saturday, Oct. 31, facing prosecution after his extradition from Canada.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Adnan Khashoggi, Attorney General, British Columbia, Canada, Central Investigation Bureau, Crime Suppression Bureau, Democrat Party, Newin Chidchob, Pairote Suwannachawee, Panya Mamen, Police Maj, Rakesh Saxena, Securities Exchange Act, Sierra Leone, Sirisak Tiyapan, Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand, Vol 28 No 46 | November 7 - November 13

Indonesia’s Aceh to allow stoning for adulterers

September 17, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Lawmakers in a devoutly Muslim Indonesian province voted unanimously that adulterers can be sentenced to death by stoning, just months after voters overwhelmingly chose to throw conservative Islamic parties out of power.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Aceh Vice Governor Muhamad Nazar, Afghanistan, Associated Press, Democrat Party, Indian Ocean, Iran, Iraq, Muslim Indonesian, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Vol 28 No 39 | September 19 - September 25

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