Thai PM in paper peace bid
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Around 50 Thai Air Force planes have swamped the largely Muslim south of Thailand with millions of paper birds as a symbol of peace for the restive region where nearly 500 people have been killed since January.
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Thai military and civilian aircraft rained 120 million paper doves down on Muslim southern provinces in a goodwill gesture, as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra tries to ease violence that has killed 400 people.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's military coup leaders faced international calls yesterday for a swift return to democracy, after vowing to choose a new prime minister within two weeks to replace ousted Thaksin Shinawatra.
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BANGKOK, Thailand  -- Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday he is willing to return to Thailand and act as an adviser to allies leading the political party that won the country's first elections since his ouster in a 2006 military coup.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has told Burma it needs to improve its record on political reform. Mr Thaksin noted that Burma was to host the 2006 summit of the Association of South East Asian nations
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One of Thailand's new military rulers pleads for international understanding of the reasons behind the coup.
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Myanmar&#39;s Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt is seen in this photo taken in June 2001 in Yangon, Myanmar. Thailand&#39;s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is in the town of Mae Sot near the Myanmar border for a special Cabinet meeting, said Tuesday, Oct.
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Ousted Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra says he is considering going home, but insists he will not return to politics.
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Thailand's new prime minister started work on Monday with pledges to focus on national reconciliation and "people's happiness" in the wake of last month's military coup against Thaksin Shinawatra.
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BANGKOK - Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will push leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Laos, to address the lack of political reform in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
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Bangkok (VNA) - In an address broadcast on television on Friday, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said that tension in southern Thailand has caused great losses in human lives and the socio-economic situation of the country for months.
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Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday he would take a "deserved rest," and urged the military leaders of the country to quickly arrange for new national elections.
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Thai papers have urged the kingdom's post-coup premier, General Surayud Chulanont, to heal a divided nation after months of political turmoil led to the ouster of Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Thailand's respected queen has made a rare public appeal for the nation to unite to end violence in the troubled Muslim-majority south where nearly 550 people have died this year.
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Millions of origami birds will be dropped on Thailand's south in a "peace bombing" to mark the king's birthday.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Michael Sullivan reports from Tak Bai, Thailand, where government planes Sunday released millions of paper doves as part of a campaign to win the hearts and minds of Muslims in the nation&#39;s south.
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IN THE wake of the third serious clash in Thailand&#39;s southern provinces last Monday, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stated yesterday his belief that his government - in power since February 2001 â-quot;is the first in Thailand&#39;s history that has