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  Japan eyes high-speed rail bid

  24 May 2013 : Japanese investors are keen to invest in Thailand's high-speed train project, a flagship scheme of the Yingluck Shinawatra government, the prime minister's secretary-general Suranand Vejjajiva says.

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  Help pours in after mother loses two children in fire

  24 May 2013 : PHITSANULOK: Help has started to pour in for a mother who lost her two children in a house fire in Muang district after they lit a candle to do their homework.

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• Refugees face uncertain future as Myanmar opens up

  12 May 2013 : Since the day she was born, 20-year-old Naw Lawnadoo has known almost nothing of the world beyond the fence and guard posts that hem her in with 45,000 others — ethnic minorities from Myanmar and those like her who were born and raised in the Mae La refugee camp in neighbouring Thailand.

• Karun-Tankhun confrontation (video)

  12 May 2013 : A video clip of former Pheu Thai MP Karun Hosakul exchanging heated words with his former election rival Tankhun Jitt-itsara of the opposition Democrat Party has gone viral.

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  BoT to consider interest rate cut

  12 May 2013 : The central bank would consider reducing its policy interest rate if first-quarter economic data supports such a move, Bank of Thailand governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul said Saturday.

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  Between a rock and a hard place

  12 May 2013 : Hurling rocks at moving cars might not seem like the best way to win friends and influence people, but for 13-year-old Boy, it was the only way he knew to fit in.

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  Political link likely in Thai Rath attack

  11 May 2013 : Police are looking into whether Saturday morning's attack on the office of the Thai Rath newspaper is linked to the controversy surrounding its cartoonist's comments about the prime minister.

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  Father of Thai democracy, forever misunderstood

  11 May 2013 : Eight decades after the 1932 revolution, Pridi Banomyong's controversial economic plan was the subject of a lively debate held Saturday to commemorate the 113th anniversary of the former leader's birth.

• Police urged to act on media attack

  11 May 2013 : The Thai Journalists Association (TJA) has urged police to quickly arrest those responsible for an attack on the property of Thai Rath, the country's biggest newspaper.

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  BoT: Tame inflation is key to rate cut

  11 May 2013 : The Bank of Thailand can use interest rates as a tool to manage the baht as long as local inflation and asset prices are benign, governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul said on Saturday.

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  Imelda Marcos cruising to re-election

  11 May 2013 : MARCOS, PHILIPPINES — Twenty-seven years after a public revolt ousted her dictator husband, Imelda Marcos is the Philippines' ultimate political survivor.

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  Call for new province in Korat

  11 May 2013 : More than a thousand residents in eight districts of Nakhon Ratchasima province are campaigning for the creation of a new province called Bua Yai.

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