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Remembering Samak

By Bangkok Pundit Wed, Nov 25, 2009 6:00AM UTC

Former Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej died yesterday morning. He had been Bangkok Governor, Interior Minister, Transport Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and finally became Prime Minister last year. BP wrote a biography on Samak’s time up until 1992 here. Matichon has a reasonably long obituary of him here. The Bangkok

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Randy Rann

By JF Beck Wed, Nov 25, 2009 5:15AM UTC

Just to bring you up to speed on the South Australian sex scandal, Premier Mike Rann’s former friend Michelle Chantelois says: They had sex in his office, on his desk and on the floor. They had “intimacy” in her car at a secluded golf course location. They had sex on

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Thai Cabinet invokes security law ahead of protest

By Wed, Nov 25, 2009 1:13AM UTC

Thailand’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved the use of a special security law ahead of a rally by protesters seeking to bring down the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. Abhisit’s office said the Internal Security Act would be activated in parts of Bangkok from Nov. 28 to Dec. 14 to

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Top US diplomat on Taiwan chides China on missiles

By Wed, Nov 25, 2009 12:00AM UTC

A senior U.S. official dealing with Taiwan said Tuesday that the estimated 1,500 missiles that China has deployed against the island are a form of threat and urged their removal. The comments by Raymond Burghardt, chairman at the American Institute in Taiwan, come despite rapidly improving relations between Taipei and

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India probe blames mosque attack on Hindu leaders

By Tue, Nov 24, 2009 11:24PM UTC

A government investigation released Tuesday reportedly implicated dozens of Hindu nationalist politicians — including a former prime minister — in the 1992 demolition of a mosque that sparked deadly communal riots. The attack by Hindu mobs on the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, 550 km east of New Delhi, set off nationwide riots

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