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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has agreed to meet with opposition leaders to discuss constitutional reforms, after the parties threatened to boycott the April elections. Thaksin dissolved Parliament on February 24 in response to street...

The Constitutional Court of Thailand , the country's highest court, decided Thursday not to hear a petition to impeach Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra , ruling 8-6 that the petition did not clearly state how the...

The Constitutional Court of Thailand on Tuesday agreed to consider a petition to impeach Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on suspicion that he illegally held shares in the Shin Corporation , a telecommunications giant that...

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced Saturday that Thailand will hold a national referendum on whether to amend the nine-year-old Thai Constitution April 19 in conjunction with the country's next Senate election. Thaksin, who...

Officials from over 100 countries are meeting in Geneva this week to discuss strengthening a United Nations treaty which controls the use of tobacco products worldwide. The two-week conference is underway to determine further provisions for the World Health...

At least five people protesting the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish and other European papers were killed in Afghanistan Monday when security forces and police opened fire on demonstrators as the cartoons...

Three human rights groups Wednesday criticized the global aid campaign created to assist those affected by the 2004 tsunami disaster , saying it has "trampled" on the human rights of many survivors. The Habitat...

Respect for human rights in Asia has been on a serious decline over the past year, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch . HRW says that the governments of some Asian countries, including Nepal,...

Amnesty International (AI) Wednesday accused Thai security forces of using "harsh or inadaquate counter-measures" in their response to Islamist/separatist terror attacks in the southern provinces of the predominantly-Buddist country. According to AI, the Thai government...

The Central Intelligence Agency has held and interrogated some of its most important al Qaeda suspects at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. According to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats...