Impatient Thai red shirts want justice from PM Yingluck
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-19/news/sns-rt-us-thailand-redshirtsbre84j028-20120519_1_shirts-rally-bangkok
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's "red shirts" took to the street this weekend to mark the anniversary of the army's bloody repression of their mass rally in Bangkok in 2010 amid growing signs of a rift with the government they helped elect last July.
Two years later, Thailand at peace
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/152180925.html
By Thanyarat Doksone AP A protester piled tires on a fire at Central World shopping mall in Bangkok on May 19, 2010. BANGKOK - Buddhist monks led prayers as tens of thousands gathered Saturday in Bangkok to mark the second anniversary of deadly clashes ...
Libyan Lockerbie bomber Megrahi dies | Bangkok Post: news
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/294290/lockerbie-bombing-convict-dies-in-libya
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing over Scotland in which 270 people were killed, died on Sunday, his brother told AFP. Freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, pictured at a ...
NATO chief vows no rush to the exits in Afghanistan | Bangkok Post: news
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/294301/world-behind-strategy-to-end-afghan-war-obama
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen vowed Sunday there would be no rush to the exits in Afghanistan as more than 50 world leaders gathered for the defense alliance's biggest summit in history. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen holds a press ...
Chanderpaul out at last as Windies battle England | Bangkok Post: news
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/294298/roach-rocks-england-to-give-windies-hope
England finally dismissed Shivnarine Chanderpaul after another marathon effort from the West Indies great ensured the hosts would have to bat twice to win the first Test at Lord's. West Indies cricketer Shivnarine Chanderpaul bats during the fourth day ...
Fetuses sold as good luck charms
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/05/21/2003533362
By Hsieh Wen-hua / Staff reporter, with Reuters, BANGKOK Thai police show the remains of two fetuses wrapped in gold leaf at a news conference in Bangkok, Thailand, following the arrest of a British citizen of Taiwanese origin at a hotel in the city's ...
Pakistan blocks Twitter over Prophet cartoons | Bangkok Post: news
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/294289/pakistan-restores-twitter-after-block-over-prophet-cartoons
Pakistan blocked Twitter on Sunday over a competition to post caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on the social networking site, officials told AFP. The Twitter homepage. Pakistan has blocked Twitter over a competition to make caricatures of the ...
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BANGKOK (AP) ? Buddhist monks led prayers as tens of thousands gathered in Bangkok to mark the second anniversary of deadly clashes between soldiers and ?Red Shirt? protesters. The scene Saturday was a sharp contrast with two years earlier, ...
