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Thaksin Meets Supreme Patriarch
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Friday 29th February, 2008 at 20:17:25| Words: 75 words | Category: News Photos
In this photo released by Chulalongkorn Hospital, former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, left, visits Thai Buddhist clergy, Supreme Patriarch Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana Mahathera, right, who is a revered figure in this predominantly Buddhist country at a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. Thaksin followed up his triumphant return from exile with a public relations blitz Friday featuring free clinics with English soccer players and a visit to Thailand's top Buddhist monk. (AP photo/Chulalongkorn Hospital )
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Thaksin kisses Thai soil
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Thursday 28th February, 2008 at 12:23:43| Words: 42 words | Category: News Photos
Ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra ended 17 months of exile abroad by falling to his knees and kissing Thai ground at Suvarnabhumi airport. Thousands greeted him with banners and signs but Mr Thaksin said he wanted to be an "ordinary citizen." (The Manager/Bangkok Post)
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Thaksin Flies Home
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Thursday 28th February, 2008 at 09:14:31| Words: 58 words | Category: News Photos
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, left, reads newspaper with his son on the plane bound for Thailand in Hong Kong Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008. Thaksin will be greeted at the Bangkok airport by 'people who love him,' including members of the government, when he returns home Thursday from 17 months in exile, an official said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Thaksin Leaves Hong Kong
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Thursday 28th February, 2008 at 09:11:53| Words: 79 words | Category: News Photos
Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra talks to reporters before entering into the immigration area at the Hong Kong International Airport Thursday morning, Feb. 28, 2008. Thaksin checked in for his flight back home Thursday after 17 months of exile, saying he was slightly worried about his security but that he had faith in the justice system. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (C) waits at a check-in desk at Hong Kong's airport February 28, 2008. REUTERS/Victor Fraile (CHINA)
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Preparing for Thaksin's Return
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Wednesday 27th February, 2008 at 09:16:24| Words: 91 words | Category: News Photos
Thai airport security officers set up barriers Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, outside the VIP terminal at Suvarnabhumi International Airport where deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is scheduled to exit from on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thaksin will be greeted at the airport by senior officials in Thailand's new government and other 'people who love him' when he returns Thursday from 17 months in exile, officials said.(AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
Thai riot policemen take part in a riot prevention drill in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, February 27, 2008.
REUTERS/Chaiwat Subparsom (THAILAND)
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Yongyuth quits as house speaker
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Tuesday 26th February, 2008 at 18:39:14| Words: 61 words | Category: News Photos
Thailand's People Power Party (PPP) deputy leader and Parliament President Yongyut Tiyapairat is seen chairing a parliamentary session in Bangkok February 18, 2008. Thailand's Election Commission ruled on Tuesday that Yongyut was guilty of vote buying in a December poll, which could possibly lead to a dissolution of the PPP. Picture taken on February 18, 2008. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND)
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Thaksin set to return
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Monday 25th February, 2008 at 18:39:52| Words: 73 words | Category: News Photos
Manchester City's Chairman Thaksin Shinawatra (R) and England's manager Fabio Capello watch their English Premier League soccer match against Arsenal at the the City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester, northern England February 2, 2008. Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is due to return from exile on Thursday, 18 months after he was ousted in a bloodless 2006 coup, a Web site run by his supporters said on Monday. REUTERS/Darren Staples
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Yanin "Jeeja" Vismitananda
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Sunday 24th February, 2008 at 22:18:20| Words: 50 words | Category: People in the News
Thai martial arts star Yanin "Jeeja" Vismitananda poses for a photo at a studio in Bangkok, on February 27. She's only 162 centimetres (five foot three inches) tall and weighs just 43 kilograms (95 pounds), but proves that small packages can still pack a punch. (AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
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October 6, 1976
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Saturday 23rd February, 2008 at 19:00:38| Words: 100 words | Category: News Photos
A member of a Thai political faction strikes at the lifeless body of a hanged student outside Thammasat University in Bangkok in this Oct. 6, 1976 file photo. Police stormed the university after students demanded expulsion of a former military ruler and barricaded themselves in the school. Haunted by his past, Samak Sundaravej has sparked an unprecedented debate on his alleged role in a massacre of student protesters three decades ago. Defying photographic evidence and witnesses' accounts of the carnage of Oct. 6, 1976, Samak said during an interview with CNN that 'one unlucky guy' was killed that day. (AP Photo/Neal Ulevich, File)
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Miracle Buddha Image
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Friday 22nd February, 2008 at 22:59:02| Words: 41 words | Category: News Photos
Local villagers crowd around an amazing image of a revered Buddhist monk which survived a devastating blaze at Wat Paknam in Rayong Province. The fire destryoed the 100 year old sermon hall but left this image untouched and still beautiful. (Thai Rath)
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Makha Bucha in Bangkok
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Thursday 21st February, 2008 at 10:26:42| Words: 49 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Thai people hold candle to celebrate Makha Bucha Day in front of the Marble temple in Bangkok February 21, 2008. The festival, which commemorates events in Buddha's lifetime, is celebrated on the full moon of the third lunar month. This picture was shot with a long exposure. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND)
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UN Meets to discuss Thai Bugs
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Wednesday 20th February, 2008 at 08:44:59| Words: 52 words | Category: News Photos
A Thai worker prepares grubs to cook in the kitchen of Insects Inter in Bangkok. Insects are on the menu Tuesday at a UN meeting in Thailand, where experts are considering the dietary value of bugs and ways to farm the creatures which are delicacies in some countries.
(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
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Lim Kor Niew Festival
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Tuesday 19th February, 2008 at 22:27:16| Words: 63 words | Category: Thai Festivals
Buddhists of Thai Chinese descent carry idols through a flame during a traditional ceremony held at the Lim Kor Niew shrine in Thailand's Yala province, nearly 1084 km ( 672 miles) south of Bangkok, February 20, 2008. Thousands of Buddhists celebrated the festival, in which the images of local deities must be carried through water and fire for good luck in the coming year. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom (THAILAND)
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Glenn Richard Allen
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Tuesday 19th February, 2008 at 18:29:17| Words: 53 words | Category: People in the News
American Glenn Richard Allen, left, is handcuffed as he is escorted from a courtroom by a Thai prison official in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. Allen, 61, was sentenced Tuesday to 16 years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl and sexually abusing a second teenager in the Thai seaside resort town of Pattaya. (AP Photo)
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Bricks made from Rice
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Monday 18th February, 2008 at 18:23:35| Words: 24 words | Category: News Photos
A man makes bricks from mud and unmilled rice in Thailand's Ayutthaya Province, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok, February 18, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND)
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Market on the Railway Tracks
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Saturday 16th February, 2008 at 08:15:50| Words: 56 words | Category: Travel Photos
A market vendor waits for customers in Samut Songkram, Thailand. In this market town, the stalls are litterally on the railway tracks and customers have to literally walk down the tracks. When the train approaches, vendors scramble to clear away their produce from the tracks. (ThaiPhotoBlogs.com/Richard Barrow)
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Mahn Sha Lar Phan
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Friday 15th February, 2008 at 20:24:07| Words: 55 words | Category: People in the News
Secretary-General of the Karen National Union (KNU) Mahn Sha Lar Phan attends a news conference at the Thai-Myanmar border, January 31, 2008. Mahn Sha Lar Phan was shot dead at his home in a Thai border town on Thursday in an assassination immediately blamed on troops loyal to the former Burma's military junta. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom/Files
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Morgan Michelle Hoke
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Thursday 14th February, 2008 at 19:44:26| Words: 79 words | Category: People in the News
U.S. bank robber suspect Morgan Michelle Hoke (R), dubbed the Ponytail Bandit", fills a form during an interview by Thai police at Bangkok's Immigration police headquarters February 14, 2008. Hoke was caught by immigration police in an area of Bangkok popular with backpackers on Wednesday after an FBI tip-off that she was in the Thai capital, Police Major-General Prawut Thavornsiri told Reuters. The 21-year-old suspect would be handed over to U.S. custody on Friday, police said. REUTERS/Handout (THAILAND).
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Valentine's Day in Thailand
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Thursday 14th February, 2008 at 08:15:44| Words: 60 words | Category: News Photos
Thetchai Pornkasae, front right, and Arisara Pornkasae show their marriage certificates at Bang-Rak district, or District of Love, in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. Many couples get married here as they believe auspicious name will bring long-lasting love. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Thai students take a photograph of red roses ahead of Valentine's Day in Bangkok February 13, 2008. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND)
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Earl R. Bonds
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Wednesday 13th February, 2008 at 19:37:28| Words: 58 words | Category: People in the News
Thai plain-clothed policeman, right, investigate some evidence after the arrest of Earl R. Bonds of Missouri at his apartment in Phuket, Thailand Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008. Bonds, teaching English in Thailand, has been detained on child sex charges and is expected to be extradited back to the United States this week, police and an embassy spokesman said Thursday.
(AP Photo)
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Self-Defence Volunteers
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Tuesday 12th February, 2008 at 20:24:05| Words: 23 words | Category: News Photos
Thai army officials instruct villagers during a self-defence training session using government-issued weapons in southern Thailand's Pattani province February 12, 2008. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom (THAILAND)
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Ministry of Defence
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Monday 11th February, 2008 at 07:44:44| Words: 23 words | Category: News Photos
Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej inspects a military honour guard at the Ministry of Defence in central Bangkok February 11, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND)
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Thai Smoking Ban
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Sunday 10th February, 2008 at 14:24:00| Words: 54 words | Category: News Photos
A no-smoking sign at a restaurant in Pattaya. This weekend was supposed to be the last time for smokers in Thailand to puff in public, but Bangkok restaurant and bar owners said the ban -- which many of them didn't know about -- would not work (AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
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First Cabinet Meeting
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Saturday 9th February, 2008 at 08:35:31| Words: 33 words | Category: News Photos
Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej attends the first meeting of the new cabinet at Government House in Bangkok February 8, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND)
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Noppadon Pattama
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Friday 8th February, 2008 at 08:28:03| Words: 47 words | Category: People in the News
Thailand's Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama, center, talks to reporters at government house in Bangkok Friday, Feb. 8, 2008. Noppadon said ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra may get back his diplomatic passport, in the latest suggestion from the new government that it may rehabilitate the former leader.(AP photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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US Resumes Military Aid
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Thursday 7th February, 2008 at 10:11:44| Words: 43 words | Category: News Photos
Thai soldiers patrol in Thailand's southern Yala province in December 2007. The United States on Wednesday announced a resumption of military aid to Thailand suspended in the wake of the 2006 coup, after a democratically elected government was unveiled in Bangkok. AFP/File/Muhammad Sabri)
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New Thai Cabinet
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Wednesday 6th February, 2008 at 22:50:17| Words: 110 words | Category: News Photos
Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej leads his 36 cabinet members in a swearing in ceremony in front of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (L) at Chitrlada Palace in Bangkok February 6,2008. Thailand's new cabinet, packed with supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was sworn in on Wednesday, marking the return of elected government after a 2006 coup. REUTERS/Handout (THAILAND).
Members of Thailand's new cabinet take a group photo after being sworn in at the Government House in Bangkok February 6, 2008. Thailand's new cabinet, packed with supporters of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was sworn in by King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Wednesday, marking the return of elected government after a 2006 coup. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND)
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Buffalo Monk
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Tuesday 5th February, 2008 at 21:40:38| Words: 30 words | Category: News Photos
Thai Buddhist abbot Phra Khru Wiboonpattankit, seen here, has been collecting buffalo skulls for a planned memorial to the creature (AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
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Selling Thai Gold
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Monday 4th February, 2008 at 08:22:47| Words: 53 words | Category: News Photos
A customer buys gold jewellery in Bangkok's Chinatown February 4, 2008. Business is looking grim at Bangkok's Chinatown in the busy neighbourhood of Yaowarat, one of the most bustling districts in the city, as gold loving Thais are selling their gold and not buying it ahead of the Lunar New Year. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND)
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Mon Festival in Thailand
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Sunday 3rd February, 2008 at 20:39:14| Words: 44 words | Category: Thai Festivals
The Mon Youth Community held their 61st annual get-together this weekend at Wat Ban Rai Charoen Phon in Samut Sakhon Province. Mons from all around the country came together to celebrate their culture and arts. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com)
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International Inventor's Day
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Saturday 2nd February, 2008 at 20:43:10| Words: 35 words | Category: News Photos
Students from Thailand look on during the opening of the First International Inventor's Day Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008, in Bangkok. Inventors from around the world gathered at the convention to display their ideas. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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