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Fourth place Bjoerndalen forced to wait on record
AFP, Published on 11/02/2014
» Norwegian legend Ole Einar Bjoerndalen on Monday narrowly missed out on an outright winter Games medals record when he finished in an agonising fourth place in the biathlon pursuit.
The election aftermath will be a big mess to clean up
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/02/2014
» The government managed to stage on schedule the election that it had wanted so badly with the dream that it would usher the Pheu Thai Party into office for another term. But yesterday's election was one that this country has never seen the likes of before, and it will go down in history as the most violent, most messy and most opposed by the people.
Postbag: The great divide
News, Published on 01/02/2014
» In Thailand there are 36 political parties. That is an awful lot of political views. A great contrast to the USA where are two parties with a huge overlap and wafer-thin differences, so why so many in Thailand?
Thai pragmatism the best answer to political conflict
News, Published on 25/01/2014
» As occurs elsewhere throughout the world, Thai national and local politics are convoluted, complex and not always what you see or think.
Bad policing traps us in our vicious cycle
News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 23/01/2014
» Is it a cycle? Or a vicious cycle?
Thai protesters lay siege to provincial offices
AFP, Published on 20/01/2014
» Anti-government protesters in Thailand besieged government offices in a dozen southern provinces on Monday as part of their campaign to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from power, officials said.
Nation's 'peaceful' revolution is not a dinner party
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 04/01/2014
» The New Year's lull offers a chance to pause and take stock of the most recent anti-Shinawatra demonstrations that have energised, empowered and exasperated so many during the last two months of 2013.
Student killed as Egypt police clash with Islamists
AFP, Published on 28/12/2013
» A student was killed and 101 arrested as police clashed with students who set fire to a Cairo university building Saturday amid an intensifying crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, officials said.
New US school shooting on eve of Newtown anniversary
AFP, Published on 14/12/2013
» A schoolboy armed with a shotgun opened fire and wounded two fellow students before killing himself, the latest US mass shooting on the eve of the Newtown school massacre anniversary.
Teacher dead, two injured in US school shooting
AFP, Published on 22/10/2013
» A teenager opened fire at a school in the US state of Nevada Monday, killing a teacher and critically wounding two students, police and reports said.