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You are here: Home / Archives for King Bhumibol Adulyadej

Thai printer of Int’l NY Times blocks stories again

December 12, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Grant Peck Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The New York Times decried limits on media freedom in Thailand on Friday after its local printer refused to publish articles about the Southeast Asian country for a third time.The printer removed a column from the opinion page of Friday’s edition of the International New York Times […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, Crown Property Bureau, Eastern Printing Co, International New York Times, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Southeast Asian, Thailand, Vol 34 No 51 | December 12 - December 18, Yuth Chinsupakul, editorial

Thai king, longest-reigning monarch, marks 88th birthday — Seattle posts billboards honoring Bhumibol Adulyadej

December 11, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The people of Thailand on Saturday marked the 88th birthday of their king, the world’s longest-reigning monarch – but with their once-vigorous leader in a hospital and unseen in public for three months, the celebrations were the most subdued in memory. However the Seattle Thai community posted billboards commemorating […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Privy Council, Seattle Thai, Thailand, Thaweewat Chongsuanoiy, Vol 34 No 51 | December 12 - December 18

Thai king leaves Bangkok hospital, returns to palace

May 17, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BANGKOK (AP)  — Thailand’s 87-year-old king, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, left a Bangkok hospital he checked into last year and returned Sunday to his seaside palace south of the capital. King Bhumibol Adulyadej had been in a Bangkok hospital since last October, when he had his gallbladder removed. As the king left Siriraj Hospital with […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, Grand Palace, Hua Hin, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Klaikangwon Palace, Queen Sirikit, Siriraj Hospital, Thailand, Vol 34 No 21 | May 16 - May 22

Thailand’s 87-year-old king makes rare trip outside hospital

March 21, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s 87-year-old king on Monday made a rare visit outside the hospital to observe development projects at his palace in Bangkok. King Bhumibol Adulyadej took a one-hour trip from the riverside hospital where he has spent most of his time in recent years to see a rice mill and a solar energy […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2012, 2015, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Queen Sirikit, Siriraj Hospital, Thailand, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27

Court forces out Thai leader, but crisis continues

May 10, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Thanyarat Doksone Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) – A court ousted Thailand’s prime minister on May 7 for abuse of power, accomplishing what anti-government demonstrators have sought to do for the past six months and further widening the country’s sharp political divide.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2014, Associated Press, Deposed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Deputy Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan, Grant Peck, Jocelyn Gecker, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, National Security Council, Pheu Thai, Red Shirts, Southeast Asian, Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, Thongchai Winichakul, Vol 33 No 20 | May 10 - May 16, Yinkgluck 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

Thai king makes first trip outside of Bangkok in years

June 2, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Thanyarat Doksone The Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thousands upon thousands of devoted Thais feted their 84-year-old monarch Friday on his first trip outside the capital in almost three years, a period marked by his ailing health and national political turmoil. The elaborate tribute to King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the old capital of Ayutthaya […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Burma, Elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Queen Sirikit, Queen Suriyothai, Siriraj Hospital, Steps Without His Cane, Vol 31 No 23 | June 2 - June 8

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

Sea of protesters demands new elections in Thailand

March 18, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BANGKOK (AP) — As many as 100,000 people demonstrated peacefully against Thailand’s government at a rally last Sunday, but the capital was being kept on edge by their threat to continue protesting until Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva calls for new elections.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2010, Associated Press, Chao Phraya River, David Longstreath, Grant Peck, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Natthawut Saikua, Panithan Wattanayakorn, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Red Shirts, Thailand, Vol 29 No 12 | March 20 - March 26, attention

New Thai PM faces deep divisions, poor economy

December 20, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Thailand’s new prime minister faces the difficult task of unifying a country torn apart by months of violent anti-government protests — demonstrations that battered the key tourism industry just as the global economy was slipping into its worst crisis in decades.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Asia, BANGKOK, Ekamol Khiriwat, England, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand, Vol 27 No 52 | December 20 - December 26

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