12/03/2008
WITNESS: Leaving Thailand? Mind your pees and queues .. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Thin Lei Win is a Bangkok-based correspondent for Reuters' AlertNet service, the humanitarian news network. In this WITNESS piece, she describes first-hand the hassles experienced by thousands of travelers who were stranded in Thailand because of the political crisis.
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12/03/2008
Well-heeled tourists flee Thailand on private jets (AFP via Yahoo! News)
As most grumbling holiday-makers wait frustrated in hotels after airport-based protests stranded them in Thailand, the wealthy are simply slipping out of the "Land of Smiles" by private jets.
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12/03/2008
Two sisters stranded in Thailand (BBC News)
Two sisters stranded in Thailand at a Bangkok airport speak about their wait for news.
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12/03/2008
Emerging Markets Report: Thailand slashes rates to resuscitate economic growth (Market Watch)
The Bank of Thailand delivered its biggest ever interest rate cut in an aggressive move to buoy economic growth that has been hurt by domestic political turmoil and the global financial crisis.
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12/03/2008
World Blog: Cleaning up, and hoping, in Thailand (MSNBC)
Serirat Prasutanond has perhaps the least enviable job in Thailand right now. "We are doing our best, really," he told me. "We want the tourists to start coming back to Thailand."
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12/03/2008
Thailand’s Rate Cut By Most Ever Amid Politic Turmoil (Update4) (Bloomberg)
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Thailand’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by the most ever to revive the economy after mass protests drove the prime minister from office and a global recession sapped exports.
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12/03/2008
Bulgaria out of EU, Thailand in (Thailandnews.net)
Bulgaria should at least consider vacating its spot as a EU member in favor of Thailand after Thailand's Constitutional Court ordered Tuesday the ruling political parties to dissolve over vote-buying ...
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12/03/2008
Thailand slashes rates as protests hurt economy (Thailandnews.net)
BANGKOK - The Bank of Thailand slashed interest rates by the biggest margin in over eight years on Wednesday to help an economy battered by political unrest and the global downturn.
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12/03/2008
WITNESS - Leaving Thailand Mind your pees and queues .. (Thailandnews.net)
By David FoxBANGKOK (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters lifted their crippling, eight-day blockade of Thailand's main airport on Wednesday, raising the hopes of 230,000 stranded tourists even thoug...
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12/03/2008
Asean summit in Thailand postponed until March (Thailandnews.net)
CRISIS-HIT Thailand has postponed a summit of the Southeast Asian bloc Asean scheduled for mid-December until March, a government spokesman said yesterday.News of the delay came shortly after the coun...
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