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PM urged to clarify unity bill stance

29/05/2012 : Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra must clearly state whether she and her government support the reconciliation bill, Democrat Party and opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva says.
Govt says WEF not threatened by protests

29/05/2012 : The government is confident that this week's World Economic Forum on East Asia will proceed smoothly despite the spectre of mass street protests tomorrow.

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Bombs deal a blow to Hat Yai tourism sector
03/04/2012 : The car bomb attacks in Hat Yai have hurt tourism and local business, leading more than half of 12,500 room bookings for Songkran to be cancelled.
Prayuth calls for inclusive peace talks
03/04/2012 : Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha believes entering dialogue with only certain militant groups might have been the reason behind the devastating bomb blasts in Yala and Songkhla on Saturday.
Suu Kyi declares Myanmar on cusp of new era
02/04/2012 : Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday hailed a "new era" for Myanmar and called for political unity after her party swept to victory in elections seen as a test of budding reforms.
ASEAN
Foreign ministers urge end to EU sanctions on Myanmar
03/04/2012 : PHNOM PENH : Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations yesterday agreed to support Myanmar's call for the European Union to lift sanctions imposed on the country.
EU warns of action against booze tariffs
03/04/2012 : PHNOM PENH : The European Union could take legal action against Thailand over import charges imposed on alcohol, says the bloc's Trade Ambassador Karel De Gucht.
PM visits bomb victims in Hat Yai
02/04/2012 : Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra made her first trip to Hat Yai on Monday, begining with a visit to the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel, where a car bomb exploded on Saturday night, before going to a hospital to speak with a few of the surviviors.
Bhumibol Dam at lowest level
02/04/2012 : The level in Bhumibol Dam in Tak province has reached its lowest point since the beginning of 2012, and fears are growing of a water shortage for irrigation in the next few months, dam director Narong Thaiprayoon said on Monday.
PM's Hat Yai visit belated, but welcome
02/04/2012 : Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s visit on Monday to the southern tourist city of Hat Yai, her first since she took office last year, is welcome -- no matter how belated it is.
28 illegal Cambodians arrested
02/04/2012 : SA KAEO -- Police arrested 28 Cambodians, including young children, who were smuggled into Thailand and found hiding in a forest grove, and say they planned to work as beggars for a gang operating in Pattaya and Bangkok over Songkran.
COMMENTARY
Home: It's so close, and yet so far away
02/04/2012 : When Michael Buble, Alan Chang and Amy Foster-Gillies co-wrote Home (of which the lyrics above are rewritten to give a local flavour), there was no way they could have known it would echo so resoundingly with Thaksin Shinawatra. The tune was a breakthrough hit for Canadian singer Buble in 2005, one year before Thaksin was bumped from office by the coup.