Thailand: Origami Politics Wonât Do
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In southern Thailand where unemployment is high, thousands of people have been spending the past couple of weeks collecting paper cranes fired at their villages and towns from the air.
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By Heather Civil, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Feb. 8--Touch-screen voting machines, once touted as a way to cut back on the stacks of paper produced during elections, may end up making paper trails of their own.   Gov.
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Splendidly pointless origami re-entry mission Researchers from the University of Tokyo have hooked up with the Japan Origami Airplane Association for what is quite possibly the most splendidly pointless space experiment of all time - the development of a paper plane capable of surviving re-entry into Earth's atmosphere after launch from the International Space Station.â¦
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Samak Sundaravej is handily elected Thailand's Prime Minister, but with a mandate that's far from secure -- and an exiled Thaksin Shinawatra waiting in the wings
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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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YANGON, Myanmar - Military-ruled Myanmar will stick to its plans for gradual democratization despite the abrupt appointment of a new prime minister believed to hold a hard line in dealing with the countryâs political reform movement, Foreign Minister
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BANGKOK -- Thailand's new military rulers banned all political gatherings and activities at the local level yesterday, further cementing their powers and preempting any opposition following last week's bloodless coup.
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By Charoen Kittikanya, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Mar.
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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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Fears of a post-election dirty tricks campaign by Thailand's old guard appear to be coming true.
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Thai air force jets and helicopters dropped around 100m origami paper cranes over restive Muslim-majority southern Thailand on Sunday, in what may rank as one of the world&#39;s most bizarre efforts to quell an ethnic conflict.
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BANGKOK -- Thailand's new military rulers got their first taste of popular dissent yesterday when about 100 protesters defied a ban on public gatherings to denounce the army's coup this week as undemocratic.
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Thailand fixed late November for controversial general elections as the kingdom struggles to break a political deadlock that has shaken government and dogged the economy.
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HAT YAI, THAILAND - The Thai air force launched one of its biggest military operations in recent history on Sunday, dispatching 51 aircraft to drop 97 million origami paper cranes on Thailandâs troubled deep south to bring peace to the region.
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Thailand's military-installed premier has defended a series of shifts in the country's economic policies, saying investor confidence will not be undermined in the kingdom, state media reported Sunday.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - Officials from dozens of Asian  nations including India, Indonesia and Thailand failed on  Friday to agree who should run a regional tsunami warning  system, officials said, dashing hopes for its quick  establishment.
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Security is tight in Thailand ahead of a court ruling that could see the two main political parties disbanded.