Thai PM Gets Down on the Farm as Election Nears
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NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand  - Bullet-proof  Buddhist monks, penniless farmers and a billionaire premier  armed with wads of cash all splashed across the front pages can  only mean one thing -- election-time is nearing in Thailand.
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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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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 political parties hold their last major rallies before Sunday's election, with the ruling party well ahead.
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Bangkok (VNA) - In an address broadcast on television on Friday, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said that tension in southern Thailand has caused great losses in human lives and the socio-economic situation of the country for months.
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Thailand's political parties got down to hard bargaining on Monday after voters roundly rejected last year's military coup but failed to give supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra an outright majority.
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Thailand heads 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 leading parties wooed possible partners for a coalition government on Monday, a day after allies of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came out on top in the country's first election since he was ousted in a September 2006 military coup.
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Ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is lying low in London, mulling his options after flying in for a &quot;private&quot; visit following the military coup in his homeland.
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For many in Thailand, it was a clash between two images: an arrogant prime minister who hates to lose, and a humble king who always wins.
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Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said on Saturday he was ready to negotiate with his ousted predecessor, Thaksin Shinawatra, to defuse growing political tensions in the country.
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By Nopporn Wong-Anan BANGKOK  - Thailand is braced for a leap into the unknown this week as a court decides whether to disband the country's top two parties and ban their leaders from politics for breaching election laws.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has won a landslide general election victory,  exit polls say.
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Thailand's embattled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he was tired and considering stepping aside after general elections expected by the end of the year.
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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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Thailand's former Prime Minister is back in the region on holiday?and he's making the generals nervous
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Fears of a post-election dirty tricks campaign by Thailand's old guard appear to be coming true.