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Thai PM-elect calls for reconciliation – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21617 BANGKOK – Attempting to widen her incoming Government’s appeal, Thailand’s Prime Minister-elect Yingluck Shinawatra today announced a five-party...

Thailand opposition wins election – Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-thailand-election-20110704,0,4667812.story Thailand’s first female prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is set to take office. She’s an admitted stand-in for her...

Thailand readies for elections – The Diplomat

http://the-diplomat.com/2011/07/01/thailand-readies-for-election/ BANGKOK – “I am not sure who to vote for”, said Nawa Lee, a bus station clerk in...

4 years, 4 months, another redshirt rally – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19509 Redshirt protesters rally in Bangkok on the fourth anniversary of the military coup that removed former Prime Minister...

Bangkok’s Referendum on Protests & Crackdown – The Irrawaddy/Sunday Business Post

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19042 http://www.sbpost.ie/news/world/thai-byelection-set-to-test-waters-50717.html BANGKOK – With a Government party candidate facing off against a jailed member of the red shirt...

No textual healing for Thailand – ISN

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=119092 Two months after Thailand’s army routed the anti-Government redshirt protest movement from central Bangkok, sixteen provinces including Bangkok...

Thailand, Reconciled to Division? – ISN

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=117160 A government peace plan is viewed with skepticism by opposition leaders as the fallout from recent political violence...

Obstacles Facing Thai Reconciliation – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18536 BANGKOK – The brutality seen on the streets of Bangkok in recent days is unlikely to be forgotten...

3pm deadline looms as death toll rises – The Irrawaddy/RTÉ News at One/Newstalk Breakfast Show

http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=18481 http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0517/news1pm.html http://www.newstalk.ie/news/news-headlines/thai-government-open-to-dialogue-if-protesters-stop-attacks/ http://irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/bullets-fly-in-battlefield-bangkok-457889.html BANGKOK – “I’m going home, back to Chiang Rai”, said one redshirt, refusing to give...

Sunlight creeping through the Bangkok gloom? – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18376 Redshirt protestors have conditionally-accepted the Government’s new peace plan. However, looking at these developments in the context of...