Sunday 23 November 2008
Opposition gathers for ultimate anti-govt rally
Critics of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's government assembled in Bangkok on Sunday to stage a mass demonstration and disrupt Monday's scheduled parliamentary session. Police forces have deployed around the parliament.
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- THAILAND
- Opposition gathers for ultimate anti-govt rally
- Sunday 23 November 2008
- Critics of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's government assembled in Bangkok on Sunday to stage a mass demonstration and disrupt Monday's scheduled parliamentary session. Police forces have deployed around the parliament.
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- TIBET
- Dalai Lama's trust in China 'thinner and thinner'
- Sunday 23 November 2008
- The Dalai Lama told a conference of Tibetan exiles in India that he was losing hope in Chinese officials. However he and the delegates reaffirmed their demand for autonomy, rather than full independence, from China.
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- AFGHANISTAN
- Saudi Arabia denies offering Mullah Omar asylum
- Sunday 23 November 2008
- German magazine Der Spiegel had reported that Saudi King Abdullah offered political asylum to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in agreement with US President George W. Bush and Afghan president Hamid Karzai.
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- AFGHANISTAN
- French soldier killed near Kabul
- Saturday 22 November 2008
- A French soldier was killed when a mine exploded near Kabul, bringing the death toll of French troops killed in Afghanistan to 25. One of his colleagues was seriously injured in the blast.
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- APEC SUMMIT
- Bush, Hu Jintao discuss N. Korea, financial crisis
- Saturday 22 November 2008
- Chinese President Hu Jintao met US President George W. Bush on the eve of the APEC summit in Peru, which will focus on the global economic downturn. The two leaders discussed North Korea's nuclear programme and the financial crisis.
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- PAKISTAN
- Alleged UK bomb plotter 'killed' in US raid
- Saturday 22 November 2008
- British Islamist militant Rashid Rauf, wanted for a 2006 airline plot, was among those killed in a US missile raid in the northern tribal region of Pakistan, according to local sources.
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- BURMA
- Celebrity comedian sentenced to 45 years in jail
- Friday 21 November 2008
- One of Burma's most famous comedians, who goes by the name of Zarganar, was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison. Zarganar was arrested in June after organising aid deliveries to victims of Cyclone Nargis.
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- TIBET
- Tibetan exiles back Dalai Lama's policy of dialogue with China
- Saturday 22 November 2008
- The Tibetan government-in-exile has announced it will continue with the Dalai Lama's "Middle Way" approach, which aims to achieve greater autonomy within China through dialogue.
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