Thai judges decide whether to disband parties
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Thailand's top constitutional judges met on Tuesday to decide whether to disband the country's biggest two parties and ban their leaders from politics for breaching election laws a year ago, a court spokesman said.
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Courts have issued conflicting rulings over what will constitute valid 'provisional' votes.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court will decide whether to reinstate the country's top judge, as violence continues.
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Wednesday's decision to dissolve former ruling party may ensure the military's political dominance.
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Text of report in English by Thai newspaper The Nation website on 23 September  A total of 54 radio stations in two northeastern provinces have stopped broadcasting temporarily, following an order by the Council for Democratic Reform under Constitutional Monarchy (CDRM).
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Exiled former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was banned from politics for five years on Wednesday and his party, the first to win an absolute majority in the country's history, disbanded.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - A referendum on an army-made constitution in Myanmar will be a "major battlefield" between the junta and a people wanting to be rid of military rule, the country's biggest dissident group said on Monday.
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The Thai opposition leader quits as Thaksin Shinawatra's party looks set to win enough votes to rule alone.
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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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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- The government's new system for trying Guantanamo detainees was thrown into turmoil yesterday, when military judges in separate decisions dismissed war-crimes charges against two detainees.
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Thailand&#39;s Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider criminal corruption charges against toppled prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, in the first case to reach court since last year&#39;s coup.
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BANGKOK, May 30 -- A court disbanded the political party of Thailand's ousted prime minister Wednesday, barring him and 110 party executives from politics for five years for violating election laws.
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Thailand's military looks set to loom   large over an interim civilian government despite pledging it   would step back two weeks after ousting Prime Minister Thaksin   Shinawatra in a bloodless coup.
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By Nopporn Wong-Anan BANGKOK  - Thailand's soothsayers, like most of its political analysts, reckon Sunday's general election will do little or nothing in the short term to resolve the country's deep divisions.
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Exiled former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra urged his stunned supporters on Thursday to accept the dissolution of their party and the political banishment of its leaders which threaten more turmoil.
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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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A vote is due to be held in Taiwan on plans to halve the number of seats in the island's famously heated legislature.