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• Red-shirt rally at Ratchaprasong begins

  19 May 2013 : Red-shirt supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) have begun to rally at the Ratchaprasong intersection to mark the third anniversary of the military crackdown on anti-government protesters on May 19, 2010.

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  Reconciliation bill comes under fire

  19 May 2013 : The reconciliation bill sponsored by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung is facing growing opposition as it would exonerate those responsible for the crackdown on the 2010 red shirt protests.

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• 7 arrested, large haul of drugs seized

  15 May 2013 : Seven people have been arrested in Bangkok in possession of 400,000 methamphetamine pills, or "yaba", and 7kg of crystal methamphetamine, or "ice".

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  Southern insurgents 'target children'

  15 May 2013 : Insurgents in the South are committing war crimes by targeting children in attacks against civilians, New York-based charity Human Rights Watch has warned.

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  Chalerm to file his unity bill May 23

  15 May 2013 : Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said on Wednesday he will file his controversial draft reconciliation legislation with the office of the House of Representatives on May 23.

• Four added to Amlo terrorist blacklist

  15 May 2013 : The Anti-Money Laundering Office has added four more names to its blacklist of Thai terrorists under the law on prevention and suppression of money-laundering and financial support for terrorism, Amlo secretary-general Seehanart Prayoonrat said on Wednesday.

• B660m panda deal defended

  15 May 2013 : The cost of Lin Ping's new loan agreement, about 660 million baht, is not much if people take into account the annual revenue that the celebrity giant panda and its family have been generating, the president of the South East Asian Zoos Association said on Wednesday.

• BoT wants state banks’ lending curbed

  15 May 2013 : The Ministry of Finance will study a proposal by the Bank of Thailand that lending by state-owned banks should be controlled to curb overheated business in some sectors, Somchai Sajjapongse, director general of the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO), said on Wednesday.

• Boy, 3, left in pickup truck dies

  15 May 2013 : A three-year-old kindergarten pupil died after being left in a pickup truck for more than seven hours in Si Sa Ket province on Tuesday, police said.

• Woman warns of foreigner sex con

  15 May 2013 : A Chiang Mai woman who claims she was lured into having sex with an American man under the pretence he would marry her has warned other Thai women to be cautious in relationships with foreigners.

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  Gold prices unchanged

  15 May 2013 : The Gold Traders Association this morning announced buying prices at 19,753.48 baht per baht-weight for gold ornaments and 20,050 baht per baht-weight for gold bar.

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  Plodprasop to portray ex-king at water summit

  15 May 2013 : Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi will don full costume and take to the stage in front of international delegates as part of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Water Summit in Chiang Mai, but denies it will be "inappropriate".

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