Thailand plans to talk with Muslim insurgents: PM
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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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Deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday he wanted to return to Thailand in February, as he called for reconciliation with the military following weekend elections.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has again ruled out negotiations with Muslim separatists in the south. In his weekly radio address, Mr Thaksin said he would not talk to militants trying to use violence to force his government to discuss secession.
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BANGKOK - Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will push leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Laos, to address the lack of political reform in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
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Malaysia wants to see photographs that Thailand claims show Thai Muslim separatists undergoing military training in a Malaysian state, a senior defense official said Wednesday.
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: Thailand&#39;s prime minister said Tuesday a military crackdown that left six rioters dead in the Muslim-dominated south was justified, arguing that such rioting is aimed at sowing chaos and cannot be tolerated.
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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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THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said two core members of a separatist insurgency in the south of the country have fled to Malaysia, where he claimed the guerrillas had received training.
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Thailand&#39;s premier says the military will no longer break up protests following the deaths of 87 Muslim demonstrators after a riot in the country&#39;s south.
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The Thai prime minister pledges to set up an independent inquiry into the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters in police custody.
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Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra promises to change tack in his handling of the violence gripping the country's south.
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Description: Violence continues in southern Thailand, where some say Islamic separatists are bent on splitting off the largely Muslim south from the Buddhist north.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday he would take charge of efforts to end violence in the largely Muslim south, where nearly 360 people have been killed since violence erupted in January.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand - A powerful bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed one person and wounded 30 in Thailandâs mainly Muslim south on Thursday, a day ahead of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatraâs visit to the restive region.
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Thai prosecutors said Thursday they plan to travel to Britain for talks on what they admit is a long-shot bid to seek the extradition of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra on corruption charges.
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Thai military rulers say they have agreed to hold talks with southern rebels - a policy shift from the former regime.
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Thailand's prime minister  visits the southern town where scores of Muslims died in army custody after a rally.