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NARATHIWAT, Thailand  -- Colonel Sumet Matreeprasaru stands before a wall-sized map where red squares mark recent attacks in Thailand&#39;s Muslim-majority south, and shrugs his shoulders.
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Anticipating worse violence in Thailand&#39;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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VIENTIANE, Laos Thailand told Myanmar on Tuesday that it must take real steps toward democracy in the coming year but failed to get any clarification from the junta on reports that the house arrest of the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been
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Thailand was on Wednesday grasping the magnitude of the tsunami disaster amid criticism that meteorological officials had been too hesitant to warn of the risks of a sea surge in case they were wrong.
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BANGKOK : Thailand will only end an insurgency in its violence-hit south if it patches up relations with neighbouring Malaysia which were damaged by the death of 87 Muslim protesters, analysts say.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has conveyed to Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra its concern over the latest incident of violence in southern Thailand.
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RANGOON, Burma, Oct. 23 -- She does not know if the police have her picture. But that uncertainty has not eased her fear.
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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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on bail listen as Thai army and police officials give a press conference at the Thaksin Palace in Narathiwat, southern Thailand, November 1, 2004.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - As a clean up operation  finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village,  some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave  priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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BANGKOK: An independent team probing the deaths of 78 Thai Muslims rounded up and piled into army trucks after a protest last week started work as the death toll mounted in the country&#39;s strife-hit south.
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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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PATTANI, Thailand  - A 'dirty war' pitting ethnic   Malay Muslim rebels against the predominantly Buddhist Thai   state has so far remained free of outside interference, but   some here are beginning to wonder just how long that can last.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The tsunamis last week probably killed more people in the southernmost area of Burma than were reported dead by the country's ruling military junta, but the region has not been independently surveyed because of tightly restricted access, specialists say.
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Local leaders in South Texas are puzzled and alarmed over the implications of a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is facing the toughest challenge of his four years in office, as violence by Islamic militants escalates in the south while security forces employ heavy-handed tactics to suppress the rebellion.
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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.