Search results for ‘Thailand’
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Burmese elections: time for the UN to act
The Burmese elections will change nothing, writes human rights activist Benedict Rogers. The UN must step in to investigate the crimes of the military and ensure genuine dialogue with the opposition.
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Myanmar's election: to stand or not to stand?
Burma’s military junta has taken steps to ensure it does not lose the country’s general election – which meant opposition groups such as Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy had to decide whether it was actually worthwhile taking part.
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Extradition a step closer as Viktor Bout loses his invincibility
Alleged notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout is one step closer to being extradited from Thailand to the US, writes Nick Paton Walsh, as his sense invincibility finally fades.
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Workers face pension freeze at Corus steel plant
Workers at the Corus steelworks in Teesside have been told their pensions may be frozen until they are 65 if the plant is sold to Thailand’s biggest steelmaker, Nick Martin learns.
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Corus steel plant: Thai deal gives future hope
The Corus steel plant on Teesside that was mothballed earlier this year is set to be sold to a Thai company, with a senior source telling Channel 4 News that production could resume in weeks.
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Viktor Bout: US awaits its prized prisoner
In a further twist in the tale of the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, his extradition from Thailand to the US has been delayed. Asia Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh explains why the “merchant of death” is detained.
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Viktor Bout: the story of the 'Merchant of Death'
It was actually, really, quite a surprise. After all the wrangling, the endless conspiracy theories, and the melodrama, it seems like Viktor Bout – the man who’s been dubbed the world’s biggest arms dealer, the Merchant of Death – is going America to face trial. It’s been two and a half years since Viktor Bout…
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Thai protest: methodical crackdown has altered the city
What matters now is how the advancing army – one of the region’s most organised – will move the thousands of unshaken protestors ahead of them, writes Asia correspondent Nick Paton Walsh.
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Bangkok protests – 'the end feels it is getting nearer'
Nick Paton Walsh blogs from Bangkok on how Thailand’s political crisis seems to be nearing an end.
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Red shirts protest: as volatile as it is surreal?
Nick Paton Walsh blogs on the increasingly violent red-shirts protests in Thailand.
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Videoblog: Amongst the 'red shirts' on the streets of Bangkok
Asia correspondent Nick Paton Walsh reports from Thailand’s capital where anti-government protesters continue to demonstrate after weeks of clashes with soldiers and police.
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Oxfam blog: arriving in the Haitian puzzle
Alexandros Yiannopoulos is Oxfam’s coordinator of food security and livelihood in Haiti. To find out more about Oxfam in Haiti visit their website here. This is the first time I have tried to keep anything like a blog or diary, even though many of my friends have asked me to keep them up-to-date with my…
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The untold suffering of Kenya's children
Kenya’s beaches are the stuff holiday brochures are made of – mile after mile of glistening white sand, kissed by equatorial sun. Tourism is a major money spinner for one of the world’s poorest countries, but Kenya’s tropical paradise hides a dark secret. We have been on a harrowing journey – from nightclubs where European…
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Bangkok: relief at the end of the protests
BANGKOK, THAILAND – It’s over. Really. And to be honest, I’m pretty glad as this might just be the real and conclusive end of it. It’s been almost eight months of this. The shouting, the tear gas, the broken bottles and the messages beeping from friends at home asking “are you alright?”, forcing you to…
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Meeting Viktor Bout, the 'Merchant of Death'
BANGKOK, THAILAND – For an opening gambit, it didn’t suggest things would go that well. Viktor Bout had, at court, told me several times that the western media were untrustworthy and broadly despicable. Here, as I approached the visitor’s window in the remand centre where he’s been languishing for a year, he was set apart…
