'Red Shirts' to protest at Government House next week

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BANGKOK, March 19 (TNA) - 'Red-shirt' anti-government demonstrators from the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will protest next Thursday (March 26) demanding that Prime Ministe

Thai PM launches six-month anti-drugs campaign

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BANGKOK, March 18 (TNA) - Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva vowed on Wednesday that his government would take drastic measures to stamp out illicit drugs with tangible results being seen within six

Thai exports, imports down in first two months of 2009

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BANGKOK, March 18 (TNA) - Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP), heavily dependent on exports, looks set to be impacted sharply this year as both exports and imports declined dramastically during

Thailand plans second economic stimulus package

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BANGKOK, March 17 (TNA) - Fuelled by anxieties over the US economic meltdown coupled with declines in foreign investment and exports, Thailand’s economic ministers Tuesday agreed to launch a second

Thai authorities nab 113 Myanmar nationals

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BANGKOK, March 17 (TNA) - Thai immigration police on Tuesday apprehended 113 Myanmar nationals and charged them with entering and working in the country illegally, apparently in a variety of ‘pyram

Thailand's January unemployment soars to 880,000

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BANGKOK, March 17 (TNA) - Thailand’s economic slowdown, impacted by the global financial crisis, has impacted unemployment as the number of jobless people in January soared 63 per cent to 880,000 f

Govt to face censure debate Thursday

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BANGKOK, March 16 (TNA) - The Abhisit Vejjajiva government agreed to attend a censure debate on Thursday and Friday with a subsequent vote of confidence scheduled for Saturday, chief government whi

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