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Thailand bombing suspect travelled to Bangladesh: police
AFP NewsAFP News
A key suspect wanted over the bombing of a Bangkok shrine that left 20 people dead flew to Dhaka a day before the blast before travelling on to China, Bangladesh police said Thursday..... (read more).... https://sg.news.yahoo.com/thailand-bomb ... 08319.html
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10 September 2015
Prayuth Threatens to Silence Critics Amid Uptick in Detentions [Transcript]
BANGKOK тАФ Junta chairman and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha today vowed to escalate the suppression of his military regimeтАЩs critics and asked the media not to give them a platform.... (read more)... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.ph ... 6§ion=
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Voices from Isaan: The Failed Constitution Draft
2015 September 9
KHON KAEN тАУ Despite their relief about the rejection of the constitution draft, people in the Northeast are dismayed by the undemocratic drafting process and the prospect of extended military rule.... (read more).... http://isaanrecord.com/
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Cashing in on constitutions
By Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang
тАУ 11 September 2015Posted in: Thailand
Fame, money, power: constitution drafting in Thailand is a lucrative business. But those seeking fortune, should also recognise the risk.... (read more)... http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandal ... titutions/
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American Thai Community Seeks End to MonarchyтАЩs Influence
Posted by Editor on September 10, 2015 in Opinion
REUTERS/Damir Sagolij
By Leonard Novarro and Rosalynn Carmen
They say that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
No more.
Opinion LogoA conference held there over Labor Day weekend to restore democracy in Thailand is expected to have reverberations 8,200 miles away. Not only did it call for an end to the abuse of political and human rights in that country. Many called for an end to the monarchy, a move that would guarantee imprisonment in Thailand, or worse.... (read more)... http://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2015 ... influence/
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10 September 2015
Conservative Actress Accuses Redshirt of Sabotaging her Image
BANGKOK тАФ An actress and avid supporter of the Yellowshirt movement filed a criminal complaint today against a Redshirt supporter, alleging he fabricated inflammatory quotes disparaging "low class" Redshirts in her name.... (read more).... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.ph ... section=11
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10 September 2015
Junta to Hold Politician тАШUntil He CooperatesтАЩ
BANGKOK тАФ The ruling military junta said today former minister Pichai NaripatapanтАЩs latest detention in an army camp тАУ said to be his seventh since the coup тАУ will only end when it deems him to be тАЬcooperative.тАЭ.... (read more)..... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.ph ... section=11
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Coup politics in Thailand, Curiouser and curiouser
Thailand spins in circles as the generalsтАЩ friends vote down their draft constitution
Sep 12th 2015
ONLY the wildest optimists still believe that ThailandтАЩs military junta, which seized power in a coup last year, intends to step down soon. A farce that played out in the Parliament House in Bangkok on September 6th has made that even plainer. In a televised vote following a cheesy group photo, a junta-backed National Reform Council voted to abandon a proposed new constitution which a junta-backed set of drafters had spent ten months drawing up.... (read more)... http://www.economist.com/news/asia/2166 ... iouser-and
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Prayut government awaits decent replacement
11 Sep 2015
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has urged people to vote for good politicians in the next general election and assured he would step down if there is an accountable government that will not repeat past mistakes.... (read more)..... http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politic ... -successor
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never-ending rejections?
Critics warn constitution crisis looms
PRAVIT ROJANAPHRUK,
TANATPONG KONGSAI
THE SUNDAY NATION September 13, 2015
'Cycle of charter rejections may keep the junta in power'
CRITICS of the military junta have warned that Thailand may be trapped in a never-ending cycle of drafting and rejecting a new charter because the public will keep on rejecting undemocratic drafts in a national referendum. And this cycle, they said, would deepen the political crisis.... (read more)..... http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politic ... 68688.html