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Papademos says parties agree on reforms, measures : Papademos on Sunday met with PASOK chief George Papandreou, New Democracy president Antonis Samaras and Popular Orthodox Rally ( LAOS ) leader Giorgos Karatzaferis to discuss the progress of Greece's debt restructuring talks but mainly to obtain the ...

Cambodia's star elephant retires : Phnom Penh - Cambodia's best-known elephant has retired following a campaign to get her medical attention, media reports said Monday. Sambo, aged 52, is a familiar sight in Phnom Penh, where she provides regular rides to tourists through the city ...

Cambodia to import oil from Iran : The government of Cambodia has announced that it is planning to import and refine oil from Iran in clear defiance of recent US on Iranian oil imports. “ Cambodia will not take into account the foreign policies of other countries toward Iran when ... Press TV

Older workers face discrimination: report : Older employees are being dumped, denied training and even verbally abused, according to a study showing almost one in three have encountered discrimination at work . The Financial Services Council (FSC) on Monday released research showing 28 per cent ...

Bangkok canals to be all dredged by May : The Drainage and Sewerage Department has been ordered to completed the dredging of all canals in Bangkok before the end of May, Bangkok governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said on Monday. He said the department orginally planned to complete dredging all ...

Gambling den bribe claims irk journalists : Rak Thailand Party leader Chuvit Kamolvisit shows photos of alleged illegal casinos during a press conference at his park,''Suan Chuvit'' on Sukhumvit Soi 10, as he accuses police of failing to uncover gambling dens around Bangkok . Bangkok Post

Economy Key to Burma's Democracy : David Scott Mathieson, a Burma researcher for Human Rights Watch, says that while the current political changes have so far been more or less frictionless, few people are willing to discuss this “ultimate reform.” Military personnel, according to some, ... The Diplomat

India's 2011 human rights record disappointing: HRW : New York: India's human rights record in 2011 got a thumbs down from Human Rights Watch for its “failure” to protect vulnerable communities and rapped the government for custodial killings, police abuses, including torture. The global organisation ... Firstpost

Thai PM advocates a flood proof Thailand in Davos : By Boris Sullivan - Mon, Jan 30th, 2012 Thai Prime Minister has convinced international business leaders that Thailand has prepared plans to prevent future flood crises and that the country has potential to be centre of the Association of Southeast ...

Thai flooding impact on tech companies, suppliers : Oct. 12, 2011: Seagate Technology PLC, which makes hard drives, says its factories in Thailand have been operational, but it may have difficulty making hard drives because of constraints in getting parts. Oct. 17: Computer hard drive maker Western ...

Internet Giants Launch Anti-Phishing Drive, Thailand Supports Twitter ... --NS Thailand Supports Twitter Censorship Move. Thailand's government has announced support for Twitter's decision to censor tweets by country, with the country's IT minister telling the Bangkok Post it was a "welcome development.

The Complexities of Peace and Religious Freedom in Laos : In November 2011 IGE celebrated a new high point in our relationship with the Lao government. Late that month IGE partnered with the Department of Religious Affairs in Laos to hold a three-day workshop on "Solidarity" Training. In this case "solidarity ...

Singapore to Help Burma Modernize Economy : Burma's economy was stifled and largely cut off from the world during decades of mismanagement and by sanctions against the military rulers' poor human rights record. However, the military-backed civilian government has recently put in place a number ...

Programme Finance and System Officer, Thailand Programme : You will be delivering an effective financial management support to Thailand programme team to achieve the country and organisation objectives to work with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering. Your roles are to take responsibility ...

Thailand in pole position on Burma : Thailand is always in the middle of any discussion on how to deal with Burma as a member of Asean, and on the right way approach a country that is rich in natural resources and cultural heritage. Burma is indeed a country with huge economic potential. The Nation

In Thailand, Elephant Sashimi is All the Rage : But nowhere is the irony as deep as it is in Thailand , where the regal elephant is now being served up alongside the tiger: on a fanciful diner's plate. According to a recent Associated Press article, a new taste for elephant meat has sprung up in ...

Thailand backs Twitter censorship policy : Thailand has become the first government to publicly endorse Twitter's controversial decision to censor messages in certain countries. Twitter announced last week it would permit country-specific censorship of content that could violate local laws, ... The Guardian

Twitter: “free speech with limits” : "Local users must still comply with local law. Freedom of speech is a human right, but this freedom is not borderless. One must be responsible," he said. Adapted from a story in today's Bangkok Post by Suchit Leesa-Ngunansuk and Komsan Tortermvasana. Bangkok Post

Police general accused of beating bank employee in Cambodia Phnom Penh - An irate police general allegedly beat a bank employee with a mobile phone in Cambodia after the worker refused to cash a cheque, national media reported Monday. Representatives from Canadia Bank in the western city of Poipet filed a ...

Cambodia's ruling party wins Senate majority : PHNOM PENH, Jan 30 (Bernama) –- The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) gained a majority of the votes in the country's Senate elections, receiving up to 77.81 percent, according to preliminary results provided by the National Election Committee ... 日本(Japan) | 中国 (China) | 한국 (Korea) | ราชอาณาจักรไทย (TH) | AU-Malaysia | Tiếng Việt

Donvale father sees Cambodia on a bike : A DONVALE father who lost the use of his legs 24 years ago will handcycle through Cambodia to raise awareness of disabled sports. Gary Connor, who became a paraplegic after a workplace accident in 1988, will lead a group of 16 cyclists of all abilities ... Leader News

New taste for Thai elephant meat : AP Wildlife officials told The Associated Press that they were alerted to the practice after finding two elephants slaughtered last month in a national park in western Thailand . – Reuters Photo BANGKOK (AP) — A new taste for eating elephant meat ... DAWN.com

At last, reason for optimism in Burma For all that time the people of Burma have suffered repression. Burma's former military regime appeared impervious to international criticism of its human rights record, unwilling to engage in meaningful dialogue with democratic and ethnic leaders or ...

Teen births: Nearly one-half to Hispanics : At home for now, Claudio juggles the demands of being a mother and a student with help from a daily tutor, a case worker who visits weekly, and the baby's grandmother, a former teen mother herself. "I never thought this would happen to me," said ...

Thailand's post-flood unemployment to be surveyed : BANGKOK (Xinhua) - Thailand's Ministry of Labor is set to conduct a survey on the impact of last year's severe flooding on the employment situation in the country. Minister of Labor Phadermchai Sasomsub said on Sunday that the Department of Labor ...

Thousands greet Suu Kyi on Myanmar campaign trail Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party was recently welcomed back into the political mainstream, further raising hopes of an end to decades of isolation and poverty as Western nations consider easing sanctions. The party is running for all ...

Police seize meth pills, ice worth Bt200 million in Bangkok : BANGKOK , Jan 28 – Thai authorities in joint operation on Saturday detained 10 suspected drug dealers with 400000 methamphetamine pills and 24 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as "ice," with a street value of Bt200 million in the ... Pattaya Daily News

H5N1: Thailand reflects on the need for disaster planning : Via The Nation: Kittiratt reflects on tough choices. Governments will need to act with more far-sightedness if serious impacts from natural disasters such as the recent Thai floods are to be avoided, Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong told ...

Cambodian ruling party poised to sweep Senate elections; few can vote, body ... PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen's party was expected to sweep Senate elections Sunday in a vote that is closed to the general population and criticized for lacking credibility. The country's 61-member upper house of Parliament ...

Two more held in robbery of Indian currency trader: Thailand : By Khanathit Srihirundaj THAILAND - Two more suspects in the December robbery of an Indian businessman have been arrested, police said yesterday, bringing the number of people in custody in the case to seven. Police arrested Chuanchom Srichan, 29, ... AsiaOne

Thailand's drug offenders to be kept in restricted jail zones : THAILAND - While policy-makers consider whether to set up a special facility - including a jail on an island - to prevent convicted drug dealers organising deals from behind bars, the Corrections Department chief said tomorrow's meeting of prison ... AsiaOne

Senate Election Kicks off in Cambodia : The election for the third legislature of Cambodian Senate has begun on Sunday morning with two main political parties participating in the contest. The two parties are the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) and Sam Rainsy Party, the country's main ...

PM promotes Thailand as gateway to the region : Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has sought to restore confidence in Thailand by pointing out that the Kingdom remains a good place for investment due to its status as a regional hub and gateway. Yingluck gave her assurance while taking part in the ... The Nation

Chalerm warns drug networks of crackdown | Bangkok Post: news : Police also yesterday arrested 10 ethnic Haw people with 400000 speed pills and 24kg of crystal methamphetamine worth about 41 million baht at an apartment on Ramkhamhaeng Road in Bangkok's Bang Kapi district.

Superstars come out fighting on thrilling night : Bangkok's elite fighters drew a capacity crowd to Rajadamnern Stadium last Tuesday for superstar attractions that included Jomthong Chuwatthana, Kongsak Pakorn and 22-year-old sensation Dedkhad Por Phongsawang. First up was Dedkhad _ the unbeatable ... Bangkok Post

Building Tobacco Control Research in Thailand: Meeting the Need for Innovative ... Thailand , a middle-income country, has a public health community with a record of successful tobacco control and a longstanding commitment to research. Thailand's comprehensive approach includes taxation; bans on tobacco advertising, sponsorship and ...

Strong US sales offset Ford's losses elsewhere : AP Dearborn, Michigan: Strong sales and profits in the US bolstered Ford in the fourth quarter, but the European debt crisis and flooding in Thailand hurt results elsewhere. Ford Motor's shares took a hit after the results fell short of Wall Street's ...

Help for Thailand's most marginalised The four had spent 20 months in detention since they were arrested in May 2010 in Chiang Mai where they had settled after they migrated in 2008 from Vietnam through Laos and then to Thailand . It was reported that when they lived in Vietnam they faced ...

Who's keeping tabs on the young and the reckless? It will be a year since Joe Welch went to a full moon party on Thailand's Phangan Island and never came home. He was 19. His death has had a devastating effect on his family and friends. The passing of any loved one diminishes us, but something surely ...

Joint Statement by India and Thailand on the State Visit of Prime Minister of ... HE Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand , paid a State visit to India from January 24-26, 2012 as the Chief Guest for India's Republic Day celebrations. On her first visit to India, at the invitation of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, ...

Visitors to Thailand are invited to make a pilgrimage to Thailand's sacred ... : Faasai Resort and Spa invites guests to visit Thailand's sacred mountain, Khao Khitchakut in Chanthaburi province, which has opened to the public for the annual Buddha Footprint festival, which runs from 24 January – 24 March 2012. PR Web (press release)

Family remembers Laos tubing victim THE family of a Melbourne teenager who drowned while tubing in Laos has thanked DFAT for helping them to find his body. The body of Daniel Eimutis, 19, was found in a river three days after he had gone tubing with friends in Vang Vieng.

Adventurers court danger, say consulates : Nineteen year-old Melbourne teenager Daniel Eimutis drowned last Monday evening while "tubing" at Vang Vieng, a popular tourist destination on the Nam Song River in Laos . Tubing is the increasingly popular pastime of floating down a fast-flowing ... Sydney Morning Herald

UN Must Decide on Standards for Tribunal: Observers : The UN sent its special expert for the court to Cambodia this week to meet with government and court officials over Swiss judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet, who is replacing a German investigating judge who quit over political interference last year.

Temperature is rising for Dengue Fever : Undertaking a US State Department-sponsored concert tour of Cambodia , Laos and Vietnam is a notable distinction for any American rock band. But for the members of Los Angeles-based Dengue Fever, embarking on a government-sanctioned tour of Southeast ...

Thailand's industrial output declines for fourth month : Thailand's industrial production fell for the fourth consecutive month last month as the worst flooding in almost seven decades hampered efforts to restart factories. The industrial production index fell 25.8 percent from a year earlier, ...

Political culture miffs Muhith : Dhaka University economics professor Abul Barakat in his speech quoted Kibria as saying, "The prime condition for the development of Bangladesh is industrialisation and modernisation of agriculture. Despite high growth, poverty can be acute if planned ... Bangladesh News 24 hours

Bangkok unplugged : Bangkok Days By Lawrence Osborne 'They say Bangkok is not a city, but a collection of ten thousand villages'. And we have it from Lawrence Osborne in ' Bangkok Days' that 'each one is as dense, as impossible to decipher as your average city'. The Hindu

Tax Gain, US Sales Drive Ford Profit : By JEFF BENNETT DETROIT—Ford Motor Co. reported a record fourth-quarter profit on a one-time tax allowance, although slower sales in Europe, higher commodity costs and production disruptions caused by last year's flooding in Thailand chipped away at ...

Greek Nationalist Party Resists Written Loan Pledges : ATHENS (Dow Jones)--The leader of Greece's small nationalist party Laos , which takes part in the coalition government, said Friday calls from the country's international creditors for written pledges on a second loan deal will be resisted, ...

Pakistan keen to move towards FTA with Thailand: Gilani - : By Shafek E Koreshe By Shafek E Koreshe By Shafek E Koreshe DAVOS, Jan 27 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Friday said Pakistan was keen to move towards a Free Trade Agreement with Thailand and stressed focussed talks for increased ...

Pharmaceutical research in Thailand : Thailand needs to develop its own community of scientists to better collaborate & compete in the Asean Economic Community (AEC) starting in 2015. For some real-life examples of research, read a previous article about international chemistry awards ... Bangkok Post

Rights Groups Urge International Community to Maintain Burma Sanctions “First we need from the Burmese regime is to release all political prisoners. Second is to help [achieve] nationwide peace and third, to allow citizens to set up human rights organizations in order to promote and protect human rights .

Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos « News from ... : Natural Potency and Political Power: Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos , by Sarinda Singh, is an innovative exploration of the social and political importance of forests in contemporary Laos . It challenges common views of the ...

Eastern promise in Vietnam and Cambodia : What is not to like about what is now Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos: staggeringly beautiful countries with ancient cultures going back more than 1000 years, and landscapes, people and cuisine that are all beyond seductive. It is almost 40 years since this ... Evening Standard

Ford posts big 4Q and full-year profits but m Weak sales in Europe and lower production in Thailand eroded Ford's profits. Investors punished the stock in pre-market trading, where shares fell nearly 5 percent to $12.14. Ford earned $13.6 billion in the fourth quarter, due to a decision to move ...

Strong opposition to PTT's privatisation : Meanwhile, survey results released by Bangkok Poll said a total of 77.0 per cent of people polled recently disagreed with the government's plan to sell part of its stake in PTT to the Vayupak Fund, to make it a private company. Bangkok Post

Baghdad bomb kills 28 | Bangkok Post: news : A car bomb near a funeral procession outside a hospital in east Baghdad on Friday killed 28 people, the capital's deadliest day in a month, amid a political standoff that has stoked sectarian tensions. An Iraqi soldier mans a checkpoint in Baghdad on ...

Laos to use e-payments for loan accountability : E-disbursement and e-signature systems are being put in place with the assistance of the World Bank to help the Lao Ministry of Finance to spend aid money ...

Thailand to join WTO informal ministerial meeting Thailand will be among 27 countries to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO)Informal Ministerial Gathering at Davos, Switzerland, on Jan 28. Hosted after the World Economic Forum (WEF), exonomic ministers of the 27 countries are expected to discuss ...

Gender-neutral parenting: nutty or nice? : So instead of referring to their son as a boy, they talked about him as the “infant”, and kept his gender secret from all but a few close friends and family until he started school. So proud were they of what they were doing that they even posted on ... Independent Online

President Zardari's Myanmar visit to promote bilateral relations: FO : Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit while giving details of the visit said, President Zardari held a meeting with the President of Myanmar Thein Sein and the two leaders exchanged views on bilateral, regional and international issues.

Better output, govt's ample stock keeping rice prices stable: IFPRI : Since 2008, domestic rice prices in Bangladesh have remained well above the Below Poverty Line (BPL) import parity. As a result, rice imports by Bangladesh's private sector have been minimal. From mid-2008 to mid-2011, apart from small-scale Bangladesh ...

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Thai official says new practice of eating elephant meat threatens beasts with ... BANGKOK — Thailand's revered national symbol, the elephant, may face a new threat of extinction: being poached not just for their tusks, but for their meat. Two wild elephants were found slaughtered last month in a national park in western Thailand , ...

New California law combats human slavery : California law requires companies to make clear what they are doing to rid their foreign suppliers from the use forced labor or human trafficking . By Rachel Cernansky, Dowser.org / January 26, 2012 Some of the more than 1000 laborers that were found ... Christian Science Monitor

IMF: Burma Could Become Asia's Next Economic Frontier : (Photo: Reuters) An International Monetary Fund (IMF) report published on Wednesday highlighted both Burma's potential for high economic growth and the enormous amount of work that will be required to realize that potential. The Irrawaddy News Magazine

Family Association Builds Discipline in SW China Police : In Xishuangbanna, China's frontier prefecture bordering Myanmar and Laos , a total of 180 police family members elected a new 30-strong committee for their rotary-club-like Police Family Group at a banquet during the Spring Festival that fell this week.

Photojournalist shares stories of trip to Burma, Thailand : The freelance photojournalist joined a team of doctors from Kentucky who made the trip to Burma and Thailand to provide free medical care to those living in sickness and poverty . Moody wanted to tell the story of hundreds of people he encountered and ...

Salaries stopped for Cambodian staffers at Khmer Rouge tribunal due to funding ... PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — About 300 Cambodians working at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal will not be paid this month — and some have worked without pay since October — because funds from donor countries have dried up, a tribunal spokesman said ...

NVIDIA blames HDD shortage for lower earnings : The massive flooding in Thailand put the HDD market in a very rough spot late last year. The flooding meant that plants in Thailand that make HDDs were unable to produce HDDs and production in some instances had to be shifted to other countries. SlashGear

The Lady Boys of Bangkok's night of cabaret and comedy : The Lady Boys of Bangkok will be performing at The Baths Hall, Scunthorpe on Thursday, June 14. The show has performed in some of the UK's biggest cities and was a huge success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, selling out for seven years in a row. 日本(Japan) | 中国 (China) | 한국 (Korea) | ราชอาณาจักรไทย (TH) | AU-Malaysia | Tiếng Việt

Melbourne man killed in Laos tubing accident : The Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance to the teenager's family, who travelled to Laos to help in the search. The teenager is the second Australian to be killed in Laos this month. A 26-year-old Sydney man was killed in a ... 日本(Japan) | 中国 (China) | 한국 (Korea) | ราชอาณาจักรไทย (TH) | AU-Malaysia | Tiếng Việt

Aussie tourist dead in Laos tubing accident : The Melbourne University student's parents and brother had flown to Laos to join the search earlier this week. His friend, Michael Girdwood, said the teenager's travelling companions and other Australians had scoured streets, riverbanks and police ...

Khmer Rouge tribunal halts salaries for Cambodians : UN Special Expert on Khmer Rouge Trial David Scheffer, left, speaks during a press conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia , Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. David Scheffer said despite Cambodian Supreme Council Magistracy doesn't appoint Judge Laurent ...