The elections are done and dusted and the Thai people are now waiting for Yingluck Shinawatra to form her government. But even among those who voted for her, there's still some feeling of dissatisfaction and division in Thai politics. Yingluck is yet to prove that she is her own person and not just a proxy of her elder brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin.
INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Mon. 04/07/11, Yingluck Shinawatra is on her way to becoming Thailand’s first female Prime Minister. The Bangkok Post hopes she will keep her promise and not just be a puppet for her brother Thaksin. Meanwhile, the IHT's Maureen Dowd examines what happens when "a habitual predator faces off against a habitual liar" regarding the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal.
Five years after being ousted in a coup, could former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra be making a comeback? His younger sister is a candidate in the elections being held this weekend and she's winning the allegiance of a large proportion of her brother's supporters, the "Red Shirts". But there are fears that the vote could trigger a repeat of last year's protests which held Bangkok under siege for two months.
Thousands of 'red shirt' opposition supporters in Thailand remember the victims of a bloody confrontation with the military a year ago, just as the electoral campaign kicks off. In India, the male to female ratio has dropped again; we send a team to look at how far some families are prepared to go to find a man a wife. And we see how exploding watermelons in China are no laughing matter.
In a surprising ruling, a court in Thailand has released on bail several leaders of the “Red Shirt” movement who had been detained on terrorism charges after organising mass political protests last spring.
In Thailand, the yellow shirts have joined the red shirts in the streets to put pressure on the government. Stanley Ho, one of the world's richest men, is suing his relatives in a row over shares in the firm that controls most of his fortune. And in India, becoming a parent over the age of 60 isn't so uncommon.
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The Thai government has agreed to lift a state of emergency in Bangkok eight months after a bloody crackdown on “Red Shirt” protesters, but the authorities will retain broad powers to detain suspects.
Thailand's government has extended a state of emergency decree that includes a ban on public gatherings of more than five people in Bangkok and in surrounding provinces. The move comes five months after bloody street clashes left 91 people dead.
An explosion in the Thai capital Bangkok killed one person and left 10 others injured on Sunday, according to officials. The blast occurred in a central commercial district only hours after voting ended in a tense by-election.
