Thai premier visits deaths town
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Thailand's prime minister  visits the southern town where scores of Muslims died in army custody after a rally.
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Sixty-one people were killed and 40 were missing after a budget airliner crashed on the Thai resort of Phuket in driving rain on Sunday and burst into flames, the island's governor said.
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Thailand&#39;s prime minister has apologized for the deaths of 78 Muslims while in custody following a demonstration in the south of the nation.
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The violent rebellion in Thailand&#39;s three southernmost Muslim-dominated provinces is not improving and leaves the civilian population increasingly exposed to killings, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said.
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BANGKOK -- On Jan. 3, when Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was making one of his many visits to the tsunami-devastated south, he stopped by a Buddhist temple in Takua Pa that had been turned into a morgue. He put on a powder-blue surgical mask and rubber gloves to tour the grounds. He gave a spirited pep talk to volunteers who ...
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has said nearly all the 6,000 people still missing after Sunday&#39;s tsunamis probably died in the disaster.
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Prime ministers of Norway, Sweden and Finland go to Thailand to see the devastating aftermath of the tsunami.
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Ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra says he will return to his native land when democracy is restored and spend his time teaching and taking part in charity work.
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Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra is to make his first visit to Burma since its military junta ousted the prime minister.
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Thailand's ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra, now living abroad, is ordered to appear before police in Bangkok.
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Thailand's PM says senior officials' negligance led to the deaths in custody of more than 80 Muslim protesters.
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Three small bombs wounded eight people in Thailand's largely Muslim south Wednesday ahead of a three-day visit by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who said he expected more violence during his trip to the restive region.
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Anticipating worse violence in  Thailand's largely Muslim south, Prime Minister Thaksin  Shinawatra urged security authorities on Saturday to work more  decisively in their operations to restore peace to the region.
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Predominantly Buddhist Thailand, hit by three-year separatist insurgency in which more than 2,000 people have been killed, plans to hold talks with the Muslim rebels, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said on Friday. "It is not a negotiation, but more of a dialogue to build understanding with them, which Malaysia has supported as a good idea," Surayud told reporters when asked if Bangkok would formally ask Kuala Lumpur to be a mediator. But Surayud, who agreed with Malaysian counterpart Abdullah Ahamd Badawi this week to speed up attempts to develop their common border area to help end the violence, declined to say where or when the talks would be held or who would be involved.
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BANGKOK: Under tight security, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Sunday visited southern Thailand, amid continuing deadly attacks on Buddhists in the region in revenge for the death of scores of Muslims in army custody.
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The mayor went to Queens to reach out to relatives and communities affected by the death.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Thai Prime Minister Thaksin  Shinawatra shed few tears on Wednesday over the death of 78  Muslims in military custody as distraught mourners besieged an  army base in the far south, demanding the bodies of relatives.