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<title><![CDATA[Bangkok Braces For Mass Protest]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[More than 50,000 security personnel are fanning out across Bangkok as authorities brace for a three-day protest that starts later today.  The red shirt supporters of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shin...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:38:40 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Us Military Veterans Return To Vietnam]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[del.icio.us A delegation of U.S. military veterans and their families recently returned to Vietnam more than 30 years after the war in the southeast Asian nation. A private organization, the Vietnam V...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:38:04 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sarkozy tells Carla to end holiday with lover]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked his wife Carla Bruni to end a holiday with her lover in Thailand and return home, a news report said. Sarkozy is also travelling to Britain on Friday without his spouse.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:36:30 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thousands Of Vietnamese Women And Children Sold As &quot;sex Slaves&quot;]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[From 1998 to 2010 at least 4,500 women and children have crossed the borders of Vietnam to supply the prostitution racket. Some 65% go to China, then Cambodia, Laos, to the Europea, African and Americ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia Parliament Passes Controversial Anti-corruption Bill]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cambodian parliament [official website] passed a controversial anti-corruption bill Wednesday meant to further transparency in government while opposition parties staged a walkout, saying the new law ...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:36:29 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thailand Starts Mobilising Troops Ahead Of Mass Rallies]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thailand began mobilising 50,000 security personnel on Thursday ahead of a mass rally by protesters who have vowed to topple government if a new election is not called. Supporters of deposed premier T...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:33:04 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Media Caught In Red-or-yellow Divide Too]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK, Mar 11, 2010 (IPS) - Anyone who is still trying to look for neutrality or balance in the Thai media in these days of political ferment, ahead of large anti-government protests expected in the...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:31:43 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia&#039;s Ruling Party Pushes Through Anti-graft Law]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Phnom Penh - Cambodia&#039;s parliament on Thursday passed an anti-corruption law that the opposition has criticized as flawed and politically biased. Earlier on Thursday the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (S...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:31:43 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Three Killed In Troubled Southern Thailand]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Unknown assailants shot dead three people and burned their  bodies in Thailand&#039;s predominantly Muslim deep south, according to  police.  The victims, who were all Buddhist technicians working for a  l...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:29:40 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thailand Braces For Political Rallies In Capital]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thailand &rsquo;s seemingly unending political crisis is likely to reach another moment of tension this weekend with huge opposition rallies that organizers say they hope will paralyze the city and br...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:29:39 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thailand Deploys 50,000 Strong Force To Maintain Order During Protests]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK: Thailand&rsquo;s Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban on Thursday said that the deployment of 30,000 unarmed military, 10,000 police and 10,000 civilian volunteers to maintain order in the...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:27:25 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reports Of Child Abuse A Wake-up Call For Parents, Gov&#039;t]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Mar 11, 2010 (IPS) - Vietnamese parents think of day care centres and kindergartens as safe, happy places to leave their children in, given the pressures of work and harder ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia Approves Long-awaited Graft Law Amid Opposition Walkout+]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PHNOM PENH, March 11 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A long-awaited anticorruption law was approved by Cambodia&#039;s  National Assembly on Thursday amid a walkout protest by opposition  lawmakers who had sought more...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[&ldquo;grandma Hai&rdquo; Gets University Degree For Her Fight On Behalf Of The Poor]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ramkhamhaeng University awards an honorary degree in political science to Hai Khanchanta, who in 1977 launched a court case that lasted more than 30 years against arbitrary land seizure in Ba Na Tan. ...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:25:19 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Suspected Muslim Separatists Kill Four In Thailand&#039;s Deep South]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pattani, Thailand - Suspected Muslim separatists on Thursday shot dead three Thai telephone repairmen and a 61-year-old salesman in two incidents in the violence-racked southern province of Pattani, o...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bangkok Prepares For Bad Traffic Day - At Best - Feature]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bangkok - Bangkok&#039;s notorious traffic is likely to get worse this weekend. The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), better-known as the red shirts for the colour its supporters wear,...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Thailand Deploys 50,000-strong Force Ahead Of Protests]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thai authorities Thursday began deploying 50,000 troops on the streets of Bangkok ahead of rallies by anti-government protesters that they fear could turn violent, the deputy prime minister said.    T...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia To Host &quot;trade Fair&quot; In Development Triangle]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PHNOM PENH, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia will host a &quot;Trade Fair&quot; for the first time in Development Triangle among Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, a government official said on Thursday.  Son Sotha, depu...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:25:18 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hong Kong Stops Package Tours To Bangkok Ahead Of Expected Protests]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong - Hong Kong suspended all package tours to Bangkok Thursday after the government issued a red travel alert on the Thai capital ahead of expected anti-government protests this weekend. The de...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:17:45 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thailand&#039;s Upcoming Mass Rally Sees No Winner]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[With just three days before the planned major anti-government rally in Bangkok, security has been tightened as tension rises over the city, but analysts say that no side would win the fighting, neithe...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:13:25 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Precautionary Steps Taken Ahead Of Mass Rally In Thailand]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Transport Minister Sohpon Zarum on Thursday is going to discuss about precautionary steps with both state and private transportation chiefs to ensure smooth public services during a mass rally.The pre...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:13:24 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia Puts The Cremation Site Of Pol Pot On &#039;historic&#039; Tourist Trail]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Khmer Rouge fighter lights a hastily built pyre of mattresses, car tyres  and old chairs beneath the coffin of his former leader, Pol Pot, in 1998]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:11:45 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vietnam&#039;s stelae declared Unesco World Heritage Site]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has declared the 82 stelae of the Temple of Literature in Vietnam as a World Heritage Site, Prensa Latina reported.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:06:44 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Anti-Government Protests Planned Later This Week in Thailand]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thai Court Rules Against Thaksin on Assets The Thai Government has stepped up security measures in an effort to ensure anti-government protests planned for later this week will be peaceful. The govern...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:06:15 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vietsovpetro JV Uncorks First Oil from Vietnam Oil Field]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Vietsovpetro joint venture enterprise and the Vietnam-Russia-Japan Company (VRJ) welcomed on March 5 the first flow of oil from the Nam Rong-Doi Moi oil field.  Vietsovpetro and the VRJ invested m...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vietnam&#039;s PTSC to Install Underwater Pipelines at Dai Hung]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Vietnam&#039;s Petroleum Technical Service Corporation (PTSC) is preparing to install an underwater intra-pipeline network worth US $57 million for the Dai Hung offshore oil field.  The Corporation will co...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:06:14 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia to preserve Khmer Rouge sites for tourists, including Pol Pot grave]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006, Cambodia children gather to play around the cremation site of Pol Pot, in Anlong Veng, Cambodia, along the Thai border. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/David Longs...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:04:41 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thai government tells tourists in Bangkok to brace for traffic during weekend protests]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK, Thailand - Tourists in the Thai capital should brace for more traffic than usual and avoid sites near anti-government protests this weekend that authorities fear could turn violent, the gover...]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:03:28 GMT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Russian tourists warned about visiting Bangkok]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Russia has cautioned its nationals against visiting Bangkok in the next couple weeks due to upcoming opposition protests in Thailand, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.  &quot;On March 11 through 23, ant...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia to preserve sites at Khmer Rouge stronghold]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia will preserve 14 sites at the last bastion of the murderous Khmer Rouge, including the home of their leader Pol Pot, as tourist attractions, an official said Wedne...]]></description>
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