RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN VISITS MALAYSIA
From left to right are: Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Laotian Prime Minister Boungnang Vorachith, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Malaysian Prime Minister Adbullah Ahmad Badawi, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Myanmar Prime Minister Lt.-Gen.Soe Win, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and Vietnam Prime Minister Phan Van Khai pose for the group photo before the start of ASEAN + Russia summit at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 13, 2005. (UPI Photo)
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Police want to question a political cartoonist in a defamation case brought by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra over comments he reportedly made about her on Facebook.
Some rank-and-file members of the Pheu Thai Party oppose a proposal for blanket amnesty for the May 2010 riots in Thailand.
A running conflict between Thailand's ruling Pheu Thai Party and the nation's Constitution Court has led to accusations from both sides, officials said.
Indonesia's Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung will propose a bill to grant amnesty to all prisoners who commited politically motivated violence, regardless of political affiliations.
The Thai Democrat Party opposes amnesty for those charged with political protests, a spokesman said Saturday.
The two color-coded Thai political groups have been discussing legislation to grant amnesty for participants in mass protests where they were on opposite sides.
Former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his deputy Suthep Thaugsuban faced murder charges relating to 2010 political riots, but both denied them.
Former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will be charged with murder over the death of a taxi driver during the 2010 Bangkok violence.
Former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was charged Thursday with premeditated murder in the death of a cab driver killed by soldiers in 2010.
A flight attendant quit her job after being forbidden to dump coffee on a passenger -- a daughter of a controversial former Thai prime minister.
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