The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Bangkok - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Monday that he might skip Sunday's scheduled visit to the northern city of Chiang Mai due to the threat of violent demonstrations. Activists loyal to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra have t...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva visited the north of the country amid heavy security Saturday after receiving death threats over a planned trip to a stronghold of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra. Some 1,500 police were sent to guard Abhisit as he toured the three northern provinces of Sukhothai, Phitsanulok and Phichit, to inspect government works. A supporter of fugitive Thaksin has reportedly...
Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
(New York) - The Thai government should immediately end the detention of 158 Lao Hmong refugees held in poor and abusive conditions for three years, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. read more
Newley Purnell (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
WhiteHouse.gov has this brief video (embedded below) of President Obama speaking after he met with ASEAN leaders at APEC in Singapore on Sunday. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva appears in the video, and Obama thanks him at the end.
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Cambodia's welcome to exiled former Thai prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has added a volatile regional dimension to Thailand's political impasse. Thai military planners now believe Cambodia's leader could be working with Thaksin to bring down the government in Bangkok. However, given his surge in domestic opinion polls over his stance, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva may see no political...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Vague hopes of integration and messy bilateral squabbles AS USUAL at such shindigs, lofty dreams of pan-Asian economic integration got a good airing at a regional leaders’ summit held in Thailand on October 25th. Buoyed by signs of recovery in recession-bound countries, and unbroken expansion in China, India and Indonesia, leaders spoke glowingly of a free-trade zone that would link the world’s...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
RFI The Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has backed a proposal from Malaysia to grant greater autonomy to the troubled south of the country. http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/118/article_5631.asp
Newley Purnell (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The Bangkok Post has this short item: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) country members are ready to jointly bid to host the Fifa World Cup in the next 13 years, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said at the 15th Asean Summit on Sunday. And here’s more from the Jakarta Globe: Hua Hin, Thailan. Southeast Asia may [...]
Sify (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese PM Wen Jiabao may not have had a one-on-one here, but they got a chance to chat at the Saturday dinner hosted by Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
Sify (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
, Oct 25 (IANS) Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh of India and Wen Jiabao of China may not have had a one-on-one here, but they got a chance to chat at the Saturday dinner hosted by Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
wdpress (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
“Lobby Cretinism” of NGOs over the ASEAN Human Rights Commission The Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) is made up of Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Singapore, which all have authoritarian sates. It also includes the semi-democratic Malaysia, along with the Philippines and Indonesia, which are more or less democratic. Would anyone expect a gathering of government...
newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
A new human rights commission was launched by Southeast Asian nations today at a summitt in Hua Hin, Thailand, according to Al Jazeera . The Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights will be able to promote human rights, according to the New York Times , but will not be able to investigate governments or impose sanctions. The commission has already faced hostility from the powerful, with the...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
[JURIST] The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced Friday the establishment of a new commission on human rights for the region. The body will be known as the Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and was introduced by Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at the annual ASEAN three-day summit in Cha-am, Thailand. The AICHR will be supported by financial contributions...
Talk Islam (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Thailand to emulate Sri Lanka to battle insurgency. Hua Hin (Thailand), Oct 23 : Thailand is eager to learn how Sri Lanka crushed the Tamil Tigers in order to see if the same methods can be used to battle Muslim insurgency in its south, a newspaper reported Friday. The Bangkok Post said Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva [...] a
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Friday said that a larger East Asian connectivity should be fostered in a bid to connect ASEAN to the rest of the Asia Pacific region. Connectivity within the ASEAN, or the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is "the first step", and only when it was linked with a larger regional connectivity, can it bring progress and prosperity to all, said...
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