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BANGKOK, Nov. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fashion and leather industrial leaders expressed their confidence that Bangkok International Fashion Fair and Bangkok International Leather Fair 2013 (BIFF&BIL 2013) will provide great opportunities for Thai and ASEAN manufacturers to emerge into the global trade scene. The event, promising to be filled with a complete range of products from Thailand and the ASEAN countries, will be held during March 13-17, 2013 at Challenger 1-2, IMPACT,...
THE political crisis gripping Thailand could damage vital tourism trade, experts said yesterday. After a state of emergency was declared in Bangkok following clashes with anti-government protesters, Singapore and South Korea advised against travelling there. Australia and New Zealand advised people to "exercise a high degree of caution" and Canada and the US urged them to avoid demonstrations in the capital. T he tourism industry already suffered one blow over the weekend after...
By FIONA JAMES THOUSANDS of Britons were trapped in Thailand last night as mobs besieged airports in tourist areas in protest at their "corrupt" Thai government. More than 15,000 people were turned away from the airport on Phuket island after protesters from the People's Alliance for Democracy stormed the runway and terminals. The airport at Krabi was also closed. Stranded travellers had to hail cabs back to their resorts. Throughout the country dream holidays were turning to...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A low profile Muslim separatist group welcomed a Thai military gesture for exploratory talks aimed at ending over two years of bloody violence in southern Thailand, the Nation newspaper said on Sunday. The paper quoted a leader of the outlawed Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO), previously thought to have disbanded, as saying that almost daily killings in southern Thailand could be stopped through negotiations. "PULO stands firmly by its principle that...
By Surapan Boonthanom YALA, Thailand (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and 16 wounded by a rash of small bombs in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south on Thursday, attacks the government said security forces knew were planned but failed to prevent. At least 41 bombs exploded at police stations, checkpoints and government offices in the southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, where more than 1,300 people have been killed in two years of separatist insurgency....
By Nopporn Wong-Anan PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Thais voted in by-elections on Sunday amid tight security in the restive Muslim south where militants killed one man and clashed with security forces before polls opened. The 40 polls, mostly in southern strongholds of the Democrat Party that led two other opposition parties to boycott April 2 general elections, will leave some parliamentary seats empty, meaning no quick end to a constitutional crisis that has forced Prime Minister...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim militants ambushed police guarding a polling station in southern Thailand on Wednesday, killing one officer and wounding another as voting began for the upper house Senate. Separately, a bomb exploded at another polling station in the same Muslim-dominated province of Narathiwat, wounding two policemen and a village leader, a police spokesman told Reuters. The attacks occurred shortly before nationwide voting began in a poll analysts say could help...
By Ed Cropley KOH PHI PHI, Thailand (Reuters) - Even as the mourners were placing flowers on the beach in memory of loved ones lost in the tsunami, Koh Phi Phi was welcoming fresh boatloads of its lifeblood -- tourists and beer. A year ago, in the immediate aftermath of the December 26 disaster, the Thai island famed as the backdrop to cult backpacker movie "The Beach" was written off as "Paradise Lost." Around 700 people had been killed and most of the tiny, jungle-clad outcrop's...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim militants killed one policemen and wounded five in a roadside ambush on a motorcycle patrol in restive southern Thailand on Friday, a police official said. In one of the most clinical attacks in 21 months of violence in the Muslim-majority region, the militants detonated a bomb and used small arms fire, and then blocked army reinforcements from reaching the victims. "They scattered the road with spikes and cut down trees to stop soldiers getting in...
By Ed Cropley PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - An emergency decree to end 20 months of bloodshed in southern Thailand will never work unless police start to obey basic existing laws on arbitrary arrest, kidnapping and even murder, local Muslims say. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Thursday an emergency decree enacted last month to end the unrest in the Muslim south, in which more than 800 people have died, did not give security forces "a license to kill," as its critics and...
