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...with the oil shock?risking popular ire in the process. Malaysia, a net exporter of oil, cut its subsidies on gasoline and diesel fuel by 7% and 23% respectively last week. Indonesia did the same in March, increasing the price of gasoline by 29%. In Thailand, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who last year resisted pressure to eliminate fuel subsidies during an election year, reversed course this year as the oil bills mounted. On July 12 he announced the end of subsidies, which he hopes will curb demand for oil imports that have wrecked Thailand's current account. Last year, Bangkok...
...months ago, thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra seemed indestructible. His approval rating soared to nearly 80% and his party clinched a landslide victory in February's parliamentary election. But in the past few weeks, Thaksin has started to look more vulnerable. Violence by Muslim separatists in the country's south has continued to escalate, and the economy has been bruised by December's tsunami as well as surging oil prices: GDP is now expected to grow 4.5% in 2005?down sharply from last year's 6.1%. A corruption scandal involving his Transport Minister has also hurt. A poll by Assumption...
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's promise last month to back away from heavy-handed measures in dealing with the insurgents in his country's southern provinces may have come too late. On April 3 a trio of bombs, detonated remotely and simultaneously by mobile phones, ripped through a hotel, a shopping center and an airport in the city of Hat Yai, killing two people and injuring more than 70, including four foreigners. The attacks came as a shock in part because Hat Yai, a regional commercial center 150 km north of Pattani, one of the provinces hardest...
...Today, the country seems mesmerized again by nationalism. Schools and colleges have been ordered by the Ministry of Education to display the flag more prominently and play the national anthem at a higher volume. "Thai-ness" is once again a useful political concept: in early February, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's populist nationalism lifted his party?Thai Rak Thai, or Thais Love Thais?to a landslide election victory, and made criticism of his policies seem unpatriotic...
...inclusion of troops from neighboring countries in the proposed force. A Loud Retort THAILAND A car bomb exploded near a hotel in Sungai Kolok, killing at least six people and wounding 40 others. The blast came after a visit to the country's southern region by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, during which he threatened to use economic sanctions against villages suspected of supporting Islamic militants. Police arrested one suspect. Route to Peace PAKISTAN The government reached agreement with India to launch a bus service on April 7 between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, towns on either side of the cease-fire line...