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Fear spreads as Thai junta jails online critics
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» BANGKOK - The Thai junta's fresh arrests of online critics is spreading paranoia across the country, say rights activists, with eight people being held for disparaging the regime on Facebook.
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Abhisit echoes Thaksin in lambasting junta rule
AFP, Published on 11/03/2016
» The government is in "panic mode" over the economy and is failing to heal the country's deep political rifts, former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Friday in unusually strident criticism of the country’s ruling generals.
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Isan youths' development stunted as parents go to Bangkok
AFP, Published on 23/03/2016
» With a bit of luck eight-year-old Chayanit will see her mother twice this year.
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Parched fields force Thailand to look beyond rice
AFP, Published on 03/04/2016
» Thailand has long served as one of the globe's main rice bowls, but chronic water shortages are pushing the country to move away from a grain that dominates its fields and has defined a way of life for generations.
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Bangkok blast: the Hindu shrine beloved by Buddhists
AFP, Published on 18/08/2015
» BANGKOK - The Bangkok shrine hit by a bomb blast Monday was originally built to appease superstitious construction workers and morphed into a popular attraction that typifies the kingdom's unusual blend of Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
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Thai folk music changes tune as coup silences dissent
AFP, Published on 06/07/2015
» KHON KAEN (THAILAND) - Flashing a toothless smile, 96-year-old Gaew breaks into the jaunty, staccato verses of "Mo Lam", a style of folk music that reaches deep into the heritage of northeastern Thailand.
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5 years after crackdown, red shirts biding their time
AFP, Published on 13/05/2015
» Five years after a bloody military crackdown on anti-government red-shirt demonstrators, relatives of those killed say unrepentant army rulers have failed in their promise to heal the country's deep divisions.
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Yingluck to face trial over rice scheme
AFP, Published on 19/03/2015
» Former premier Yingluck Shinawatra was Thursday ordered to stand trial on charges of negligence over a bungled rice subsidy scheme in a case that could see her jailed for up to a decade.
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US leads criticism of martial law replacement with Section 44
AFP, Published on 02/04/2015
» The Thai junta's decision to lift martial law was denounced by critics on Thursday as cosmetic, with key ally Washington warning that replacement emergency security measures would do little to loosen the military's grip on power.
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Thai junta orders German NGO to cancel press freedom briefing
AFP, Published on 30/01/2015
» BANGKOK - A German rights group said Thursday that it has been ordered by Thailand's junta to cancel a briefing on the health of the kingdom's media landscape, in a growing clampdown on freedom of expression.
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