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Li Yuzhou's family leave Thailand
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 11/10/2012
» BANGKOK - The wife and two children of former Chinese government informant and later dissident Li Yuzhou have finally been repatriated to a third country, but he remains locked up at the Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok.
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Suu Kyi pledges to help refugees
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/06/2012
» MAE SOT -- While thanking Thai authorities for taking care of refugees from Myanmar for decades, Aung San Suu Kyi vowed on Saturday to do all she could to help them leave.
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Absorbing Rohingya becomes a regional challenge
Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/12/2016
» The Myanmar army crackdown in Rakhine state has overwhelmed the border area of Bangladesh and also eliminated the possibility of sending Rohingya migrants in Thailand back to Myanmar. As a result, Thailand must consider other solutions such as new shelter arrangements or reuniting families in Muslim-majority Malaysia, suggests the Migrant Working Group (MWG).
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Suu Kyi faces tough task to lift economy
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 27/04/2016
» Myanmar's first civilian administration will face the Herculean task of producing economic achievements as the country battles difficult reforms amid a lack of skilled labour, according to Thai academics.
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NLD unlikely to win in diverse Rakhine state
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 06/11/2015
» SITTWE, MYANMAR - Despite the nationwide popularity of Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, neither her National League for Democracy (NLD) nor the ruling military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) are likely to win Sunday's polls in ethnically diverse Rakhine state, where deadly sectarian riots between Buddhists and Muslims occurred in 2012.
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Activists call for details on lawyers
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/08/2015
» The Human Rights Lawyers Association and Amnesty International Thailand have called on China to reveal the whereabouts of hundreds of human rights lawyers and activists following last month's crackdown by Beijing.
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Verdict seen as sealing govt fate
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 06/11/2013
» Patriotic groups believe the Preah Vihear ruling will be a decisive factor in overthrowing the pro-Thaksin Shinawatra government now facing strong public opposition for backing the amnesty bill.
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Scholars say verdict could have been worse
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/11/2013
» Thailand has lost less than was earlier feared by nationalists under the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) interpretation of its 1962 ruling, academics said.
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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.
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Laos faces rebuff in UN council seat push
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/08/2013
» The Lao government's inaction on the disappearance of activist Sombath Sompone would hinder the country's quest for membership of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a member of the European Union (EU) parliament said yesterday.
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