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US government in partial funding shutdown
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 01/10/2013
» WASHINGTON - The United States government began a partial funding shutdown on Oct 1, the first since the Clinton era 17 years ago, idling up to 800,000 federal employees, closing national parks and halting some services after Congress failed to break a partisan deadlock by a midnight deadline.
Activists riled by PhD for CPV leader
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 26/06/2013
» Regional human rights defenders are upset by Thammasat University's conferral of an honorary doctorate degree on the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).
Activists call for swift action on Myanmar violence
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 14/06/2012
» The United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations must quickly intervene in the spiraling sectarian conflict in Myanmar's northwestern state of Rakhine and send an independent fact-finding team to ascertain and monitor the situation, activists in exile said during a seminar in Bangkok.
Migrants flock to see Suu Kyi
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 31/05/2012
» MAHACHAI, SAMUT SAKHON : Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi told thousands of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand that she was working to pave the way for their return home.