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Protesters begin Bangkok ‘shutdown’ calling for Yingluck to step down – The Irrawaddy/BBC World Service: Outside Source

http://www.irrawaddy.org/asia/protesters-begin-bangkok-shutdown-calling-yingluck-step.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01p2pd7 BANGKOK — Hundreds of thousands of protesters seeking an unelected council to run Southeast Asia’s second biggest...

At least one dead in Thailand protests – Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-at-least-one-dead-in-thailand-protests-20131130,0,4097416.story#axzz2mACitWSh By Simon Roughneen and Mark Magnier BANGKOK, Thailand – Anti-government protests turned violent Saturday with at least one...

Protest commemoration hints at fraught election – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21330 BANGKOK – As the searing late afternoon heat bore down on the massing crowd, three rows of orange-clad...

Some relief for Thailand’s freedom of speech advocates – South China Morning Post

http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=88e4e6f07226e210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=Asia+%26+World&s=News Simon Roughneen in Bangkok – Freedom of speech has long been under scrutiny in Thailand, thanks to the country’s...

Tensions remain between Thailand and Cambodia – RTÉ World Report

A thousand year old temple on the Thailand-Cambodia border is in the firing line as soldiers from both countries...

Changes to Thai electoral rules may help PM’s side – Sydney Morning Herald

http://www.smh.com.au/world/changes-to-thai-electoral-rules-may-help-pms-side-20110218-1azlm.html Simon Roughneen in BANGKOK – Nine months after the Siege of Bangkok, Thailand continues to struggle with competing colour-coded political...

Thai-Burma Relations through the Thaksin Prism – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=18672 BANGKOK — After the crackdown on the two-month-long Redshirt protest in Bangkok, ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra remains a...

The Press Under Fire, Again – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18621 Thai and foreign journalists came under fire and sustained casualties during the recent political violence in Bangkok, with...

Thai prime minister survives no-confidence vote – Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2c7cc230-6e01-11df-b5c9-00144feabdc0.html By Simon Roughneen in Bangkok The Thai prime minister on Wednesday survived a no-confidence motion tabled against his...

Thai premier cools hopes for early poll – Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/547da710-6c06-11df-86c5-00144feab49a.html By Simon Roughneen in Bangkok Thailand’s prime minister said previously proposed November elections are not feasible “in the...