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Judgement scuppers Yingluck, Surapong summit trip
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/05/2014
» Former caretaker prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and former caretaker deputy prime minister and foreign minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul are unable to attend the 24th Asean Summit after being stripped of their positions by the Constitutional Court yesterday.
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.
Temple ruling will produce no real winner
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/11/2013
» There will be no real winner from Monday's ruling on the Preah Vihear temple by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as Thailand and Cambodia will have to live side-by-side as members of the Asean Community.
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.
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.
Chin Peng dies in Bangkok at 89
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/09/2013
» Chin Peng, former secretary-general of the Communist party of Malaya (CPM), died at a hospital in Bangkok on Monday morning. He was 89 years old.
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.
No return yet of Myanmar refugees
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/10/2013
» Conditions are not in place yet for the organised repatriation of thousands of refugees along the Thai-Myanmar border, according to a report released Tuesday by The Border Consortium (TBC).
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 liken Myanmar violence to Ku Klux Klan
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 11/05/2013
» Activists have likened Myanmar's worsening sectarian violence to the Ku Klux Klan racist movement in the US during the 1960s.