Thailand Weighs Self-Rule for South
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A recent escalation in violence presents a major challenge to Thailand's new government, which took office last week. Military and political measures imposed by previous governments had little success in curbing the violence
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Thailand is to consider creating a new &quot;royal province&quot; to honor the nation's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the government's spokesman said.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra  said Thursday he would take charge of efforts to end violence  in the largely Muslim south, where nearly 360 people have been  killed since violence erupted in January.
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Thailandâs government has come under harsh attack from media, politicians, activists and ordinary citizens for the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters in custody, with many saying authorities are making matters worse in the volatile, Muslim-majority south.
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By Nopporn Wong-Anan BANGKOK  - Thailand is braced for a leap into the unknown this week as a court decides whether to disband the country's top two parties and ban their leaders from politics for breaching election laws.
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Thailand's army-appointed government has called a general election for December 23 which many people hope will end months of political turmoil but may also steer the country into another era of weak coalitions.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - A referendum on an army-made constitution in Myanmar will be a "major battlefield" between the junta and a people wanting to be rid of military rule, the country's biggest dissident group said on Monday.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is visiting the southern town of Tak Bai, where scores of minority Muslims died under arrest two weeks ago.
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Thailand&#39;s King Bhumibol Adulyadej said police and soldiers must increase cooperation to prevent killings and unrest in three Muslim-majority southern provinces.
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Description: Violence continues in southern Thailand, where some say Islamic separatists are bent on splitting off the largely Muslim south from the Buddhist north.
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Thailand takes a perilous turn as a coup d'&#233;tat places it once again under military rule
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There has been little progress in the battle against Islamic insurgents in Thailand's south, officials admit.
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People in Thailand take part in the first general election since last year's coup which ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is facing the toughest challenge of his four years in office, as violence by Islamic militants escalates in the south while security forces employ heavy-handed tactics to suppress the rebellion.
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Thailand is poised to take over a television station once controlled by its former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a coup in September.
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Thailand heads to the polls Sunday in an election meant to restore democracy more than a year after the military ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose shadow looms large over the balloting.
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At the United Nations lectern this week, President Bush hailed the spread of democracy. "From Beirut to Baghdad," he said, "people are making the choice for freedom." Yet even as he spoke, tanks were rolling through the streets of Bangkok as a military coup toppled the elected leader of Thailand,...