Jeff Savage to go Free
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Thursday 8th July, 2010 at 23:23:44| Words: 45 words | Category: News Photos
Jeff Savage, 49, is escorted by prison officials at Pathumwan Municipal Court in Bangkok on July 8, 2010. Savage, who was arrested for joining violent 'Red Shirt' street protests in Thailand will be freed after pleading guilty to violating a state of emergency, his lawyer said. (Getty Images)
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Prasarn Trairatvorakul
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Wednesday 7th July, 2010 at 23:34:26| Words: 37 words | Category: People in the News
This undated photo shows Prasarn Trairatvorakul, president of Kasikornbank, who's appointed by the Thai cabinet on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 as the governor of Bank of Thailand, succeeding Tarisa Watanagase who is retiring at the end of September 2010. (AP)
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Mikhail Pletnev
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Tuesday 6th July, 2010 at 23:28:31| Words: 56 words | Category: People in the News
Photo taken on July 5, 2010 shows Russian conductor Mikhail Pletnev (L) being arrested inside his house by Thai police officers in Pattaya. Famed Russian conductor Mikhail Pletnev has been charged in Thailand with raping a boy aged under 15, a crime that carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison, Thai police said on July 6, 2010. (Getty Images)
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Bomb Suspects Returned to Thailand
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Monday 5th July, 2010 at 21:01:18| Words: 112 words | Category: News Photos
A Thai man identified as Boonplod Kobchai, right, is escorted by Cambodian military police officers at Phnom Penh international airport, Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Monday July 5, 2010. The man and another Thai woman, both suspected of involvement in a bombing attack on a political party in Bangkok, was sent back to Thailand after handed over to the Thai officials. (AP)
Thai suspect Boonsom Varissareeya (C) is escorted by Cambodian military police into Phnom Penh International airport on July 5, 2010, to be returned to Thailand. Cambodia on July 3, arrested Boonsom and another compatriot Boonplod Kobchai thought to be linked to the anti-government 'Red Shirt' movement over a bomb attack in Bangkok last month. (Getty Images)
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Anti-Grenade Nets for Noodle Stalls
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Sunday 4th July, 2010 at 23:50:57| Words: 111 words | Category: News Photos
A Buddhist restaurant owner makes chicken noodles after putting up an aluminium net to prevent insurgents from hurling an explosive into the outdoor open-air restaurant in southern Thailand's Yala province, south of Bangkok. Restaurants in downtown Yala province, one of the three Muslim-dominated provinces in the largely Buddhist country, were targeted in two bomb attacks last month which killed 2 people and wounded 30 others. More than 4,000 people, both Muslim and Buddhists, have been killed since the insurgency flared in early 2004. (Reuters)
A Buddhist restaurant owner stands near aluminium netting put up to prevent insurgents from hurling explosives into the outdoor open-air food stall in southern Thailand's Yala province, south of Bangkok. (Reuters)
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Security Cameras at Ratchaprasong
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Saturday 3rd July, 2010 at 22:09:25| Words: 112 words | Category: News Photos
A Thai security officer watches a bank of monitors showing the feed from CCTV cameras in the Ratchaprasong shopping district in Bangkok. The Ratchaprasong shopping district has completed the installation of CCTV security system including an additional 64 units thourghout the distirct which it is hoped with boost the confidence of tourists who visit. (Getty Images)
Thai security officers keep their eyes on a bank of monitors showing the feed from CCTV cameras in the Ratchaprasong shopping district in Bangkok. The Ratchaprasong shopping district has completed the installation of CCTV security system including an additional 64 units thourghout the distirct which it is hoped with boost the confidence of tourists who visit. (Getty Images)
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8 killed in Thailand's restive south
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Friday 2nd July, 2010 at 21:34:40| Words: 126 words | Category: News Photos
Thai security forces inspect the site of an attack on army patrolling vehicle in the southern Yala province July 2, 2010. Suspected Muslim insurgents ambushed security forces in southern Thailand on Friday and killed three soldiers in a second attack in two days, an army officer said, ratcheting up violence in a low-level insurgency that has been going on for about six years in predominantly Buddhist Thailand's Muslim-majority deep south, on the border with Malaysia. (Reuters}
Thai bomb squad members inspect the crater at the site of a roadside bomb planted by suspected separatist Muslim militants in Thailand 's restive southern province of Narathiwat on July 2, 2010. Five people, including three military rangers, were killed in a bomb attack in Thailand's troubled Muslim-majority southern provinces, police said. (Getty Images)
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Thai Greenpeace activists in Bangkok
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Thursday 1st July, 2010 at 22:42:44| Words: 61 words | Category: News Photos
Thai Greenpeace activists protest at the Ministry of Energy in Bangkok. Greenpeace called upon Thailand's Energy Minister to divert all energy-related investments away from the nuclear energy option, and to invest instead in research, development and uptake of clean renewable energy. (Reuters)
A Thai Greenpeace activist wearing a gasmask holds a protest banner at the Ministry of Energy in Bangkok. (Reuters)
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Australian Karl Kraus
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Wednesday 30th June, 2010 at 23:19:10| Words: 45 words | Category: People in the News
In this photo taken Tuesday, June 29, 2010, Australian Karl Kraus, center, is escorted by Thai policemen after being arrested, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Kraus was arrested Tuesday and charged with raping and sexually abusing four underaged sisters, when one of them was as young as 5. (AP)
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