Thaksin-backed party forms new Thai coalition government
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Thailand's People Power Party (PPP), backed by ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, won support of five small allies on Saturday to lead a coalition government emerging after a December 23 general election.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra heads for an unprecedented win in the general election.
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Thailand's new interim prime minister has submitted his post-coup Cabinet lineup to King Bhumibol Adulyadej and is waiting for a royal endorsement before unveiling it to the public, a spokesman said Sunday.
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra claimed victory in Sunday's elections in what appeared to be a massive mandate for a second term, propelled by strong support from Thailand's rural poor and his adroit handling of the tsunami disaster.
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HONG KONG At the beginning of this year, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand was being touted as the new informal leader of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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Thailand's People Power Party, which backs ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and won the most seats in a December 23 general election, said on Thursday it would unveil a six-party coalition government this weekend.
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Gen Surayud Chulanont is starting his first day in office as Thailand's new military-appointed PM.
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Thailand's king gives his backing to coup leader Gen Sonthi Boonyaratkalin, state-run TV says.
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Thailand's parliament elected pugnacious right-winger Samak Sundaravej prime minister on Monday as the country returns to representative, civilian government after a bloodless September 2006 coup.
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The People Power Party, which supports deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, plans to unveil a coalition government Saturday, capping a dramatic political turnaround 16 months after his ouster.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has won a landslide general election victory,  exit polls say.
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A Thai court ruling clears the way for a party allied to ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra to form a government.
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The political party allied to the deposed Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday it had struck a deal with several smaller parties to allow it form a coalition and become the next government
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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'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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Slowly but it seems surely, the party backing ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is shaping up to form Thailand's next government, a stunning reversal of fortune after last year's military coup.
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Thailand's main opposition Democrat Party conceded defeat in Sunday's general election, saying Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra had won enough support to form a one-party government. "I would like to congratulate Thai Rak Thai for achieving its goal of being a single-party government," Democrat leader Banyat Bantadtan told reporters after exit polls showed Thaksin's party was likely to win 399 of the 500 seats in parliament.