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There's something striking about Ma-ae, but it takes a while to work out what it is. It's not his looks: he's a lanky teenager who, like most Thai youths, wears blue jeans and a T shirt. Nor is it his religion: he's Muslim, like almost everybody else in Thailand's three southernmost provinces. What's striking about him is this: in a part of the country where a separatist insurgency has claimed more than 1,800 lives since it flared anew three years ago, and where ordinary people are gagged by fear and secrecy...
...Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont has moved more swiftly in the south. He has departed radically from Thaksin's iron-fisted?and ultimately self-defeating?attempts to crush the rebellion. He has personally apologized for the government's past heavy-handedness, including the notorious Tak Bai incident in which 85 Thai Muslim protesters died, and has acknowledged Islam's special place in a corner of this predominantly Buddhist nation. His government has also revived the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center, a peace and development agency credited with keeping a lid on the violence until Thaksin dismantled it in 2002; kick-started...
...Numbers 19,000 km Round-trip journey planned for prawns caught in Scottish waters before they reach British stores, by a seafood firm that calculates hand peeling in Thailand will be cheaper than machine peeling in Scotland 50? Hourly wage paid to Thai prawn peelers. The move will mean the loss of 120 jobs in Scotland paid at $11 per hour...
After weeks of lying low in London, former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is back in Asia as a private citizen following his Sept. 19 ouster by a military coup. So far he has been spotted riding horses in Beijing, shopping in Hong Kong and golfing in Bali. Where to next? Anywhere but Thailand, where Interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said on Nov. 12 that Thaksin should stay away for another year, until after elections are held under a new constitution...
...sight isn't out of mind. Thaksin's presence in the neighborhood worries Thai generals, who fear it could preface an attempt to retake power or foment popular revolt in rural areas where he still has support. "A picture of him in Hong Kong in blue jeans is enough to rattle the government," says Michael Montesano, a Thailand expert at the National University of Singapore...