Thai Govt drops &#39;peace birds&#39; in attempt to quell unrest
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MARK COLVIN: You might call them weapons of mass distraction - the hundred-million &quot;peace birds&quot; made of folded paper that the Thai Air Force has been dropping over southern Thailand.
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Thailand's new military rulers banned all political gatherings and activities at the local level Sunday, further cementing their powers, and the wife of the ousted prime minister left the country to join her husband, an airlines officials said.
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Thailand's interim government lifts a ban on political party activities imposed after last September's coup.
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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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THE Thai military turned to the power of origami yesterday in its attempt to bring peace to the countryâs restive south. Air force planes dropped 100 million paper birds over the area, where fighting between
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Thailand's political parties got down to hard bargaining on Monday after voters roundly rejected last year's military coup but failed to give supporters of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra an outright majority.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Myanmar&#39;s detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is an attempt by the ruling junta to prevent possible political violence.
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Thai air force jets and helicopters dropped around 100m origami paper cranes over restive Muslim-majority southern Thailand on Sunday, in what may rank as one of the world&#39;s most bizarre efforts to quell an ethnic conflict.
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Thailand's political parties got down to hard bargaining on Monday after voters roundly rejected last year's military coup but failed to give supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra an outright majority.
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About 120 million origami birds were air-dropped over southern Thailand yesterday in an attempt to quell a Muslim insurgency that has led to the deaths of more than 500 people this year.
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Thailand faced more political turmoil on Thursday after exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was banned from politics and his party dismantled, raising fears of unrest ahead of elections in December.
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Thailand's armed forces have seized power from Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a late-night bloodless coup, revoking the constitution and imposing martial law after months of political turmoil.
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&#39;BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct. 19 - The military government of Myanmar on Tuesday announced the dismissal of the prime minister, Khin Nyunt, who had publicly been pulling in a more liberal direction than the other generals in the country&#39;s ruling clique.
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PANARE, Thailand - Around 50 Thai Air Force planes âbombedâ the largely Muslim southern with paper birds on Sunday as a symbol of peace for the restive region where nearly 500 people have been killed since January.
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PATTANI, Thailand, December 5 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - A fleet of military and civil aircraft and helicopters dropped Sunday, December 5, some 120 million paper birds across Thailandâs troubled Muslim-majority south, described by activists as
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra replaced his agriculture and defense ministers in a Cabinet reshuffle Wednesday, apparently because they failed to resolve Thailand&#39;s bird flu crisis and continuing violence in the country&#39;s Muslim
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BANGKOK Thailand&#39;s government on Monday cut its economic growth forecast to 6.5 percent this year after second-quarter expansion was less than expected because of record oil prices and an outbreak of bird flu.