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...sparked by the deaths in October of 85 Muslim protesters in the custody of security forces, both King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his wife, Queen Sirikit, have spoken out. On Wednesday, in a speech broadcast to the nation, the King told a gathering of military and police generals in Bangkok that they must adopt softer tactics to handle the unrest?and warned that if they do not "manage the situation properly" the nation may "fall into ruin." The previous day, Queen Sirikit had appeared on TV to make a tearful plea for peace and urged her predominantly Buddhist national audience...
...started soon after. Eyewitnesses TIME talked to say that though most soldiers were shooting into the air, some were aiming at the crowd. A chest-high bullet hole in a concrete post in the park seems to indicate that this might have been the case. The Nation newspaper in Bangkok printed a photograph of a soldier aiming at the crowd with his automatic weapon horizontal to the ground, shell casings spurting out from the magazine. Ai says she saw two men killed in front of her and immediately began to run, like the rest of the crowd, to the river...
...Shwe replaced Khin Nyunt with Lieut. General Soe Win, a known hard-liner believed to have ordered the brutal attack on Suu Kyi's followers in May. "The removal of Khin Nyunt demonstrates that Than Shwe wasn't interested in 99% of power," says a senior Western diplomat in Bangkok. "He wanted...
...diplomatic isolation to avoid economic collapse. He was admired abroad for granting regional autonomy to the armed rebel groups that live along Burma's borders with its neighbors?deals that might now unravel. "China will be furious," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a security and defense analyst at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. "They want stability along their borders, no matter what the cost. But Than Shwe has shown he doesn't care much about stability, just regime survival." India's porous border with Burma, which is exploited by insurgents on both sides, is bound to be discussed during Than Shwe's five...
...fleet of luxury motor yachts and an adjacent golf club. But the real draws will be the resort's 1,500-sq-m spa (opening in December) and its destination restaurants. The latter-one Thai, one Mediterranean-are presided over by chef Sven Krauss, formerly of the Sukhothai Bangkok hotel and co-author of The Food of Thailand: Authentic Recipes from the Golden Kingdom, a best-selling cookbook in the U.S. Needless to say, none of this comes cheap-introductory rates, valid until Nov. 30, start from $325 a night...