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Three protest groups unite, take to stage
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/11/2013
» The leaders of the three main anti-government protest groups on Saturday joined forces, vowing to fight shoulder-to-shoulder to uproot former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's political networks and initiate national reform.
UDD issues fresh red shirt rallying cry
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/11/2013
» The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) has called for a mass rally of red shirts in Bangkok on Sunday to counter growing anti-government protests and to show support for the Yingluck Shinawatra administration.
Nitirat Group rebuffs ruling on charter
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/11/2013
» The Constitution Court's ruling on the charter amendment draft on the composition of the Senate last Wednesday was "severely" flawed, the Nitirat Group said yesterday.
Experts warn of violence if street protests escalate
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/11/2013
» Academics have expressed concern about the recent surge in political protests, which they say could erupt into violence.
Three killed as disaster zones declared
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/11/2013
» Floods have wreaked havoc and displaced tens of thousands of residents in many parts of the South, with three people killed in Trang province and half of Songkhla declared a disaster zone yesterday.
New river fleet helps weeding go with the flow
News, Nattha Thepbamrung, Published on 24/11/2013
» With their large metallic teeth, robotic arms and garish yellow paint jobs, the city's latest acquisitions cut a striking figure while plying the Chao Phraya River.
Four hurt in mosque blast
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/11/2013
» Four soldiers were injured, one seriously, in a roadside bomb explosion in Songkhla's Thepha district yesterday.
Families 'confirm' Karen disappearances
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 24/11/2013
» Witnesses have confirmed 55 male members of the Karen rebel God's Army went missing at the Thai border 13 years ago, a solicitor from the Lawyers Council of Thailand (LCT) has said.
World community needed at Fukushima
News, Published on 24/11/2013
» The announcement that nuclear experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will visit Japan in the coming week to help with planning in a critical stage of the decontamination operation at the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant is encouraging. The IAEA has had some involvement in the decontamination in the past and helped to draw up an action plan after a team visited Fukushima in April, but it has long been obvious that Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), the privately owned company that runs Fukushima, should be seeking out more international assistance to bring this complicated and potentially very dangerous process to a successful completion.
A human face on tragedy
News, Published on 24/11/2013
» Thank you for publishing Crutch's reminiscences last Sunday (PostScript) about his 1979 visit to Tacloban in the Philippines, so recently ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan.