November 2005 in Thailand

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[edit] 23 November 2005 (Wednesday)

• South Thailand insurgency: After meetings between former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad and Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra on Monday and Anand Panyarachun, National Reconciliation Commission head, on Tuesday in Bangkok. There are agreements that Mahathir will no longer suggesting for autonomy in the three southern provinces and they will stop using war of words. (The Nation)

[edit] 22 November 2005 (Tuesday)

• At Singapore-Thailand Enhanced Economic Relationship (STEER) meeting, Thailand and Singapore agree to create a bilateral single market to be a model for other ASEAN countries leading to economic integration in the region by 2020. (The Nation)

[edit] 21 November 2005 (Monday)

• SEA Games 2005: Soccer coach Chanvit Polchivin is confident of collecting three points when Thailand plays Philippines, the host nation, in their first match. (The Nation)

[edit] 19 November 2005 (Saturday)

• New Delhi, India: Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn receives the prestigious Indira Gandhi Award for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2004, terming the princess as "an admirable representative of the Thai people and an outstanding symbol of a great resurgent nation". (Hindustan Times)

[edit] 18 November 2005 (Friday)

• Over 50,000 people attends the Muang Thai Rai Sapda (Thailand Weekly) show by anti-government critic Sondhi Limthongkul at Lumpini Park. His talk show was taken off television Channel 9 and there are reports that the government would shut down his website [1] and his programmes on cable television. (The Nation) (Bangkok Post)

[edit] 12 November 2005 (Saturday)

• This year's 4th H5N1 bird flu case is found in Thailand. He is an 18 month-old boy living in Bangkok. Health experts advise the public to go on high alert because the boy had no record of touching chickens although there are a few of them in his house. (The Nation) (Bangkok Post)

[edit] 9 November 2005 (Wednesday)

• South Thailand insurgency: General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, former prime minister, believes that southern unrest will be solved soon while officials receive more cooperation from local people leading to more suspects arrested. (NNB) (NNB)

[edit] 6 November 2005 (Sunday)

• Teachers from across the country will gather in Bangkok to protest against the planned transfer of schools run by the Education Ministry to Local Administrative Organisations. The transfer is part of decentralisation as appear in the Constitution. (The Nation)

[edit] 5 November 2005 (Saturday)

• Thailand's Pharmaceutical Organization will produce Oseltamivir, an H5N1 antiviral drug, with ingredients imported from India. The Public Health Ministry is also negotiating with France, Japan, and China to produce influenza vaccines in the country. (The Nation)

[edit] 4 November 2005 (Friday)

• Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayothin announces that PM Thaksin Shinawatra gave the green light to Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's plan to extend the Skytrain route from Taksin Bridge to Thon Buri. (The Nation)

[edit] 3 November 2005 (Thursday)

• The 2nd summit of ACMECS ends successfully. The agreements between five member countries include many area of cooperation. Thailand has also pledged to contribute 100 million Baht (2.5 million US dollar) to a regional fund on combating H5N1. The 3rd summit will be held in Vietnam in 2007. (TNA)
• South Thailand insurgency: The Fourth Army Area Commander announces that martial law has been applied in the districts of Chana and Thepha of Songkhla province as the insurgents have attempted to expand the target territory to these districts which border three troubled provinces. (TNA)
• The government's spokesman, Suraphong Suebwonglee, denies a report by The Washington Post that Thailand has hosted one of CIA's black site prisons around the world for terrorist suspects. The Nation
• South Thailand insurgency: Bombs exploded last night in Narathiwat Province. Collapsed power pole leading to widespread blackout for three hours. A dozen explosives were also found and defused in other places around the city. (Bangkok Post) (TNA)

[edit] 2 November 2005 (Wednesday)

• Natthee Jitsawang, director-general of the Corrections Department, reveals plan to build a prison similar to Alcatraz for long and life-sentence prisoners on a remote island off Rayong Province. (The Nation)
• Thailand is hosting the second Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) Summit with more than 50 representatives from five member countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam). (NNB)
• Commerce Ministry of Thailand announces that inflation rate in October surged 6.2% from a year earlier, the highest in seven years. (Bangkok Post)
• Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is under a massive criticism after he said provinces which vote for his Thai Rak Thai party will be the first to receive help from the government. (Bangkok Post)

[edit] 1 November 2005 (Tuesday)

• Ruling Thai Rak Thai party accepts the defeat in the Sunday's re-elections and by-election. The opposition led by the Democrat Party now gains enough MPs they need to be able to lodge any motion of no confidence against ministers on alleged corruption. (Bangkok Post) (The Nation) (TNA)
• Local health authorities confidence that Thailand's 20th case (3rd this year) of infection by H5N1 would survive after she received antiviral drug. (The Nation)

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[edit] Thailand

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• Thai News Agency [3]
• Bangkok Post [4]
• The Nation [5]
• Business Day [6]