Thai politics unsettled after election
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Thailand's political parties pursued coalition talks Monday after allies of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra won nearly half the seats Â but not an outright majority Â in the first parliamentary election since a military coup.
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Thais went 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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Thailand's coming polls revolve around a former Prime Minister who is not even in the country. Is this any way to hold an election?
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Thais voted on Sunday in a post-coup general election that supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra sought to turn into a referendum on his return from exile.
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Elected lawmakers meet in Thailand for the first time since the military seized power in September 2006.
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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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Thailand made an uneasy return to democracy Wednesday with the swearing-in of a Cabinet dominated by loyalists to the prime minister ousted 19 months ago in a military coup.
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Thailand's new civilian prime minister   will have a free hand in running the country, its military   leader said on Friday, trying to ease fears about the army   casting its shadow over a return to democracy and beyond.
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Thai business leaders and investors have welcomed their new premier amid hopes the military-backed leader will shore up confidence in an economy rocked by months of political crisis.
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Thais vote on Sunday in a general election that marks the return of democracy after last year's military coup but which is unlikely to heal Thailand's deep political divisions.
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Thailand's new military rulers sideline allies of ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra in an annual army reshuffle.
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With a general election less than four months away, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is hardening his stance towards unrest in the largely Muslim south, despite
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra claimed victory in Sunday's elections in what appeared to be a  decisive 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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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was  set to become Thailand's most powerful elected leader on Monday  following a crushing election win that should make him head of  the country's first single-party government.
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The Thai army banned political party   meetings and "political activities" on Thursday, two days after   ousting Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a coup, and gave   no sense of how long the ban would last.
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Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed, exiled and allegedly corrupt, was poised for a comeback-by-proxy as his loyalists looked likely to win Thailand's national election Sunday.
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Thailand's parliament convenes Monday after a nearly two-year absence, restoring democracy after a military coup ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and returning many of his allies to politics.