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...This year's summit was preceded by some rare fireworks. The group has a decades-old policy of "nonintervention" in each other's affairs. Last week, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra threatened to walk out of the meetings if anyone tried to discuss his country's problem with Muslim insurgents in Thailand's south. "If there is any attempt to raise the issue," he told reporters, "I will fly straight home." Burma's Soe Win may have been hoping that the prisoner release would prevent awkward discussions on the fate of Suu Kyi and her supporters. According to opposition groups...
...Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra appeared to be listening, too. Though he has said that he regrets the deaths of the protesters in October, Thaksin has not apologized for the military's actions. But last week he agreed to meet a group of Bangkok academics and human-rights advocates pushing for more sensitive policies in dealing with the region's woes. One suggestion he has embraced is a plan to mobilize the nation to fold 62 million origami paper "peace" doves that will be dropped on the south by military aircraft on Dec. 5, the King's birthday. Since hearing...
...commission overseeing the Oct. 9 presidential vote count were snatched from a car. They were identified as Annetta Flanigan of Northern Ireland, Shqipe Habibi of Kosovo and Angelito Nayan of the Philippines. Responsibility for the abductions was claimed by a Taliban splinter group. Suffocation Inquiry THAILAND Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra pledged that an independent inquiry would investigate the deaths of 78 Muslim men who were crushed and suffocated to death in military custody, and that "wrongdoers" would be punished. Several bombs shook Thailand's mainly Muslim south, killing at least two people, following the deaths...
...grip of an Islamic insurgency. What's only emerging now, however, is that the militants are fired by the global jihad against nonbelievers and egged on by radical clerics preaching death to infidels. "This is a domestic problem with the fashion of [an Islamic] brotherhood," Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told TIME in an interview last week. "Some religious teachers are recruiting students to stage violence. This has gained momentum since 9/11...
...Thai officials, especially at the highest levels, are now taking the threat seriously. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has pledged to wipe out bird flu in the country by the end of October, and last week enlisted more than 900,000 volunteers to cull sick chickens and do spot checks on potential new outbreaks. His biggest challenge is to get poultry-dependent villages like Srisomboon, where Sakuntala Premphasri lived, onto the program. Villagers told a TIME reporter that even though they knew their chickens were likely dying of bird flu in August, they did not alert livestock officials because they believed...