Thailand's military government has denied any knowledge of Wuthipong's disappearance.
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The Dhammakaya Temple is unusual in defying the military government.
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Losses amounted to $8 billion, the military government has said.
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The military government has repeatedly rejected accusations of rights violations.
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Pravit Rojanaphruk publicly protests the military government in May 2014.
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The military government said last week she was in Dubai.
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The military government denies it is singling out the family.
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They have called for military government and repealing gay marriage.
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At that time, a repressive military government ruled the country.
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Romero critiqued the military government and armed leftist groups alike.
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Roughly 92683,000 Egyptians were killed during protests against the military government.
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"You'd need to be protected by a military government," he said.
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Weerachon Sukondhapatipak, a spokesman for the military government, declined to comment.
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The military government had also worked hard to win Vajiralongkorn's favor.
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The military government says an election will be held next year.
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Three years later, the military government passed the 1982 Citizenship Law.
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Three years later, the military government passed the 1982 Citizenship Law.
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She had pleaded innocent and accused the military government of political persecution.
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The military government has clamped down on dissent ahead of the Aug.
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The temple has been a rare institution in defying the military government.
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For nearly half a century, the military government kept the country isolated.
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The military government has promised to hold a general election next year.
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The military government has been gradually relaxing political restrictions since last year.
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Two priests kidnapped by the military government accused Bergoglio of not protecting them.
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The clause was written into the constitution in 22016 by the military government.
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Reuters was unable to reach a spokesman for the military government for comment.
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" In 2013 Globo apologized for supporting the military government, calling it "a mistake.
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"The military government was defended by Russia and China," Mr. Win Htein said.
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"You can't rig our election ... this is a military government", the crowd shouted.
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Thailand's military government started buying rubber from farmers as prices started declining in 2014.
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Weerachon Sukondhapatipak, a spokesman for the military government declined to comment on the matter.
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There are also lingering uncertainties about the Crown Prince's relationship with the military government.
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Just two months later, the military government to which he handed power arrested him.
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Thailand's military government did not respond to a request for official comment on the ban.
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Egypt's current military government, led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has used the same tactic.
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Rights groups criticized the warning as another attempt by the military government to quell dissent.
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The military government has set 3 billion baht ($90 million) aside for the lavish funeral.
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Wuthipong said earlier this year he was training "civilian warriors" to oust Thailand's military government.
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It was one of the largest protests since the military government took power in 2014.
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"This is a hands-down convincing margin of approval for the military government," he said.
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Despite the mourning period, the military government has stressed that business should continue as normal.
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The military government has banned protests and stifled criticism and anti-junta activity is rare.
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Thailand's military government, which took power in 2014, has committed to "zero statelessness" by 2024.
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A spokesman for the military government said he was unable to comment on the case.
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Thailand's military government says it has made legalizing foreign workers a priority to help business.
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Had not the shah, after weeks of refusing, just appointed a military government of order?
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Thitinan said Yingluck's decision to skip the verdict hearing will have "emboldened" the military government.
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It is time to start investing in the future with military, government, and educational resources.
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Why is the military government so anxious to deflect attention from the Malay-Muslim insurgency?
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Thailand: The military government approved a measure that would allow medicinal marijuana starting next year.
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But the military government, led by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, has repeatedly delayed elections.
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An interim civilian-military government is leading the country until democratic elections can be held.
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Rights groups say the military government used repressive tactics to undermine critics of the new constitution.
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Observers say this case highlights the growing repression of civil society representatives under Thailand's military government.
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In Thailand, civilians also fall pray to a heavy-handed or less-than-tolerant military government.
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It will also give the military government space to push ahead with economic policies, they said.
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The students rank among the most vocal critics of Thailand's military government ahead of an Aug.
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The military government has stepped up prosecutions of those accused of defamation, handing down harsher sentences.
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Thailand's military government has, since 2015, held talks brokered by Malaysia, aim at ending the violence.
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CAAT was set up in 2015 by the military government to tackle flaws in commercial aviation.
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Nominees for Congress are just as exciting, with varied stories of military, government and community service.
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The military government has promised an election by mid-2017, even if the constitution is rejected.
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This military government is ready to destroy the system simply to keep its people in power.
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"This military government is ready to destroy the system simply to keep its people in power."
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Thai business leaders say privately they are confident the military government will ensure a smooth transition.
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The military government, led by General Prayuth Chan-ocha, has struggled to revive Thailand's export-dependent economy.
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King Vajiralongkorn's July 28 birthday was announced by the military government as a public holiday this year.
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These five provinces during the past political crisis were in open rebellion against the Saigon military government.
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That comment prompted the military government to order an official probe into his links with the party.
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Thailand's military government says there are up to six Thai suspects in Laos who it is seeking.
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Recent terrorist attacks and concern about Thailand's military government have already left potential travelers wary of visiting.
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The military government has zealously pursued cases of alleged criticism of the monarchy since it took power.
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Convictions have become more frequent, and punishments more severe, under a military government that seized power in 2014.
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Egypt's military government, meanwhile, recently passed a law that allows it to wipe its critics off social media.
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Their non-Buddhism was used against them by the reigning military government, allowing their persecution to become institutionalized.
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The military government has sold more than 5 million tonnes in a series of auctions since taking power.
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In the 1970s a leftist military government expropriated 15,208 rural properties and 21.6m hectares (25m acres) of land.
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Within the foreseeable future, China's most sensitive military, government, and commercial communications could be secured through quantum cryptography.
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Seehanat said he did not know if any members of the Thai military government were on the list.
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Among those who disappeared was her husband, Tomás Nativí, who spoke out against the US-supported military government.
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"We could say the military government killed adults, but you kill people before they are born," García said.
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"This military government is ready to destroy the system simply to keep its people in power," he writes.
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Kotee, was also a fierce critic, and he claimed to be training "civilian warriors" against the military government.
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Those who criticize the military government have been packed off to "attitude-adjustment camps" run by the army.
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These hopes were soon dashed, however, as the new military government attempted to eradicate Peronism from Argentine society.
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In August 2013, roughly 1,000 Egyptians -- many of them Morsy supporters -- were killed during protests against the military government.
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In August 2013, roughly 1,000 Egyptians -- many of them Morsy supporters -- were killed during protests against the military government.
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But her fortunes changed in 22008 when the military government informed her it was taking possession of her land.
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Aung San Suu Kyi was released in 2010 after about 15 years of house arrest under a military government.
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Thailand's military government has said improving the country's waste management infrastructure is a priority and set goals for 2021.
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Nigeria's current president, Muhammadu Buhari, was head of a military government that threw Kuti in jail in the 1980s.
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The plantation is part of an attempt by the military government to create a national industry around medicinal marijuana.
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Military government leader Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said the country was in "immeasurable grief ... profound sorrow and bereavement".
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The military government is also sensitive about criticism of the 2014 coup, and a new constitution subsequently drawn up.
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The military government has vowed to crack down on human trafficking, particularly in Thailand's multi-billion-dollar seafood industry.
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The indigenous humans rights activist was persecuted by the country's then-military government, which she denounced for committing atrocities.
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Human rights groups estimate that about 30,000 people were killed by Argentina's military government, many of them tortured beforehand.
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"Thailand's military government will become untenable after the cremation and as the new reign begins in earnest," he added.
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Turkish officials had feared a Cypriot union with Greece, whose military government at the time had backed the coup.
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The military government has taken several steps to remain influential after upcoming elections, scheduled to take place on February 24.
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Under the military government, prosecutions of those accused of defaming the royals have increased dramatically and sentences have become harsher.
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It thus amassed grain stockpiles of 18 million tonnes, which the military government has been trying to offload since 2014.
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That news sparked a broader conversation about the use of Chinese-made hardware for sensitive military, government, and commercial tasks.
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No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, which some in the military government blamed on groups opposed to the junta.
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The military government initially promised to hold a general election in 2015 but has pushed back the date several times.
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Thailand's military government said there was no connection between the two bombings and bombings in the south earlier this month.
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The military government has not set a date for the royal cremation but it is expected in about a year.
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Last month, Trump invited former army chief Prayuth, who now heads the military government as prime minister, to visit Washington.
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Thailand's military government has ramped up online censorship, particularly perceived insults to monarchy, since seizing power in a 2014 coup.
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Sunday's election has been billed by the military government as returning Southeast Asia's second-largest economy to civilian, democratic rule.
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Amid rising calls in China to boycott Thailand, the military government in Bangkok seems to have switched to damage-control.
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Many jade mines are owned by companies linked to leaders of the previous military government, ethnic armies and Chinese firms.
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Democracy advocates, worry the social media restrictions laid out by the military government may be impeding parties from freely campaigning.
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That said, Thailand has enjoyed a period of economic and political stability since the military government took power in 2014.
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In 1947, Trieste was put under Anglo-American military government; only in 1954 was it restored to the Italian state.
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Samson told Trump that Christians were being "oppressed and tortured by the Myanmar military government" in the Buddhist-majority country.
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Brazilians still search for loved ones who went missing after they criticized the military government, never to be seen again.
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The military government denies using lese-majeste laws to silence critics and says they are necessary to protect national security.
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Roads and bridges were swept away, slowing rescue efforts by the military, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, Mr. Mangwana added.
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The military government has repeatedly delayed holding a new election since it overthrew an elected prime minister in a 2014 coup.
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Yesterday he suspended major provisions of the Nigerian constitution and formed an interim military government to maintain law and order. Gen.
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Opponents of the military government, including Thaksin's supporters, object to the constitution that will be put to a referendum on Aug.
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Additionally, the system was properly deployed at only five of the 23 non-military government agencies for which it was intended.
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The military government says the new rules will bring stability after more than a decade of fractious, at times violent, politics.
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Yet the system was properly deployed at only five of the 23 non-military government agencies for which it was intended.
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But a "take back the forests" order passed by the military government in 2014 has led to more conflicts, activists say.
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China, which borders Myanmar, helped prop up the military government during the sanctions era and has major investments in the country.
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Participants received death threats when it was performed in Guatemala City in 1978, a particularly violent year under a military government.
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The military government often says that it seeks "reconciliation," but then lapses into blaming people's democratic aspirations for Thailand's instability. Gen.
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The military government, which sent its troops to fight for the Americans in Vietnam, banned the book and arrested the writer.
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"This is a military government," said Elias Mudzuri, a vice president of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party.
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"There has been a conflict of interests between factions within the monkhood and the military government," said Buddhist scholar Somrit Luechai.
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Under electoral rules written by the military government, a pro-army political party is expected to elect Prayuth as prime minister.
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For this year, the military government aims for 34 million-35 million foreign tourists this year, with revenue of 1.78 trillion baht.
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The consumer groups allege that Nuance uses the recordings to improve the products it sells to military, government and law enforcement agencies.
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The prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, has announced that his military government will shortly begin discussions with political parties about restoring democracy.
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Yingluck fled abroad last month fearing that the military government, set up after a coup in 2014, would seek a harsh sentence.
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The military government says the new rules will usher in stability after more than a decade of fractious, at times violent, politics.
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Thailand's military government has come under fire from the international community for crackdowns on dissidents and restricting rights, including holding protest rallies.
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As Western pressure for trading rights and treaty ports grew, younger samurai bitterly criticised the military government for giving in to it.
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Suu Kyi was given the Freedom of Dublin in 1999 while she was held under house arrest by Mayanmar's then military government.
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The latest crackdown comes as the military government prepares to put a widely criticized military-written constitution to the public in August.
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Yingluck fled abroad in August fearing that the military government, set up after a coup in 2014, would seek a harsh sentence.
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Opponents of the military government last week accused the government of responding slowly to the flood crisis, adding to simmering political tensions.
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On Monday, the military government said it would also lodge a civil damages case against Yingluck and some of her former ministers.
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No group claimed responsibility, and senior officials of the military government almost immediately decided that the bombings were not acts of terrorism.
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India is one of only four countries that has a majority in favor of a military government, the American think tank said.
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Rights groups had called on the military government to allow foreign observers to monitor the election, but only ANFREL was given permission.
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Charnchai is deputy chairman of an anti-graft subcommittee of the National Reform Steering Assembly, an advisory body to Thailand's military government.
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The turning point came in April 1990 — a coup attempt that failed to topple the four-year-old military government of Gen.
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There, they asked for an end to the intifada and soon agreed to evacuate the military government and establish Palestinian self-rule.
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Mr. Jatupat is a prominent member of Dao Din, a small student organization that has held public protests against Thailand's military government.
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Government spokesman Weerachon Sukhontapatipak warned against poking fun at the military government online because it could breach defamation and cyber crime laws.
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"Even though it was a military government and we didn't have democracy, it wasn't as bad as these current times," Najela said.
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Campaigners say evictions have risen since the military government passed a forest reclamation order 13, which authorities say is essential for conservation.
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The head of the military government Prayuth Chan-ocha said "spies" had told him where she was but declined to reveal her location.
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The military government approved last week the purchase of the first submarine from China, at a cost of 13.5 billion baht ($390 million).
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In late 2016, Thailand&aposs military government agreed to a plan under which an estimated 80,000 stateless people would be eligible for citizenship.
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And yet Thailand's military government is playing down the dry spell and says it is powerless to crimp such a popular national holiday.
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Hines, like other VA heads, was selected because of his military, government, managerial, and business expertise, but he had no background in medicine.
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Campaigners say evictions have risen since the military government passed a forest reclamation order in 2014, which authorities say is essential for conservation.
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The military government that has ruled the country since taking power in a coup two years ago claimed legitimacy from the king's endorsement.
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Thailand's military government has tried to revive talks with rebel groups initiated by the previous civilian government, but they have gone almost nowhere.
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In 1987, violence erupted again as people took to the streets to demand free presidential elections, forcing the military government to back down.
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November 22008 - Saro-Wiwa and eight other MOSOP leaders are executed by Sani Abacha's military government on alleged murder charges, to worldwide horror.
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In the early 1980s, however, Brazil suffered several years of recession, and when the military government ended in 1985, inflation was at 235 percent.
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Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the leader of Thailand&aposs military government, expressed his "sympathies and deepest condolences" to the families of the dead.
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Successive governments have held talks with rebel groups aimed at bringing peace but the discussions have largely stalled, including under the current, military government.
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Mnangagwa, a former intelligence chief, denied Mugabe's claim that the vote would not be free since it was being run by a "military government".
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He also expresses nostalgia for the military government and demonstrates total disregard for the offense caused by his regular homophobic, sexist, and racist comments.
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In the coming weeks, King Vajiralongkorn is expected to endorse a constitution drafted by the military government to start the process of restoring democracy.
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He said he was disappointed judges had rejected broader arguments that Shell was intertwined with the military government in power in Nigeria in 1995.
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In Mexico City, he wrote for several newspapers, but after a few years grew disenchanted with the country's military government and left for Guatemala.
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In Egypt, for example, the United States has tolerated a repressive military government in an effort to preserve another crucial alliance in the region.
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Along with a bipartisan group of former government officials, foreign policy experts and journalists, we heard from top Japanese military, government and policy leaders.
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Human rights advocates have criticized General Prayuth, who seized power in a 2014 coup, for the crackdown on civil liberties by his military government.
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The current military government has been trying to sell off stockpiles from the scheme through several state auctions since it took power in 2014.
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The military government has also tried to pressure messaging services and social media firms, including Facebook, to help remove content critical of the monarchy.
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But some supporters of the villagers worry that the current military government may not back away, and some residents now seem resigned to leaving.
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Bolsonaro's praise for the country's 1964-1985 military government also inspires hope for Brazilians who long for a time when violence was less widespread.
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His post was in response to a series of polls by Thai survey institutions that showed strong support for the military government, Veera said.
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"Ask anybody who lived through the military government," Antonio Kleiber do Nacimento, a 26-year-old marketing specialist in Sao Paulo who supports an intervention.
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Land rights groups say evictions have risen since the military government passed a forest reclamation order in 2014, which authorities say is essential for conservation.
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Venezuela's opposition on Wednesday plans to hold marches nationwide as part of an annual event that marks the fall of a military government in 1958.
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Thailand's military government, led by former army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha, has repeatedly delayed a general election, with the latest date set for February 2019.
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The popular playwright criticized Sani Abacha's military government and the powerful oil industry, charging that it had polluted and destroyed the region's land and wildlife.
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The FNL is among several ethnic Hutu rebel groups that rose up to fight Burundi's Tutsi-led military government in the 1993-2005 civil war.
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Military government leader Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Thursday security was his top priority and he ordered extra troops deployed around the country.
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Ties cooled in 1977 when the administration of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter enforced a U.S. arms embargo over rights abuses by Brazil's military government.
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The move came ahead of the release of results from the country's first election since a 0.663 coup that saw a military government seizing power.
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Thailand's military government has increased online censorship since it seized power in a 2014 coup, in particular to block perceived insults to the royal family.
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A senior Japanese diplomat, who wanted to remain anonymous, said Thailand's military government was keen to allay Japanese fears on potential political obstacles to investment.
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Fela was a raging supporter of human rights, and his records, - often filled with verbal attacks - were against Nigeria's military government in the 70's.
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This is allowed by the 2008 Constitution, which was drafted by a previous military government — and which Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has otherwise criticized.
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In Sudan, efforts to install a true civilian government have been met with violence; in Algeria, the interim military government dawdles in announcing presidential elections.
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Rain storms are forecast through coming days, and the head of Thailand's military government warned that evacuation plans might need to be set in place.
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The military government plans to meet political parties next month to discuss ground rules for the general election, among them easing curbs on political activities.
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The five-year trial put a spotlight on the systematic torture and killing of thousands of people suspected of being opponents of the military government.
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A peace effort began in 2013 under a civilian government and was picked up again by a military government set up after a 2014 coup.
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The Thai military government has taken a hardline stance against suspected transgressors of the royal defamation law since coming to power in a 2014 coup.
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Analysts say the commission's report would provide her the political cover to kill an unpopular white elephant that she inherited from Myanmar's former military government.
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In March, Wuthipong was accused by the military government of hiding a cache of weapons in Thailand and plotting to kill Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.
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Earlier on Friday, the military government suggested opposition to its rule was behind the hospital bomb attack last month, on the third anniversary of the coup.
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Since seizing power in May 2014, Thailand's military government has struggled to revive Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy as exports and domestic demand are still weak.
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The widely venerated king died at the age of 88 after seven decades on the throne and the military government has declared one year of mourning.
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"We have identified members of the military, government officials, medical practitioners, education professionals, academics, civilians from numerous other fields, and commercial enterprises as targets," they said.
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Lula's lawyer, Cristiano Zanin Martins, compared the effort to arrest him to measures taken by Brazil's military government decades ago to suppress political expression with imprisonment.
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The referendum will be the first big test of the public's opinion of the military government since it came to power after a May 2014 coup.
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The military government, which took power after a 2014 coup, this year introduced a bill that appears to significantly reduce the influence of Buddhism's supreme council.
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He said the bombings were likelier to be the work of dissidents opposed to the military government that has ruled Thailand since a coup in 2014.
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Moyo told Reuters last week that the international community must help remove the "military government" that has taken power or risk the country descending into chaos.
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ACCRA — The new military government of Ghana today [March 4] broke diplomatic relations with Guinea, whose president has proclaimed deposed Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah his equal.
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Mr. Robet, a longtime activist and a co-founder of Amnesty International Indonesia, took part in protests during the 1990s seeking to topple Suharto's military government.
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The juxtaposition illustrates how nothing Trumpworld says can be taken at face value, as well as the disdain the administration has for non-military government workers.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was herself a political prisoner and spent 15 years under house arrest at the hands of the country's former military government.
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"Thais are becoming more open to what critics and humorists are saying about the junta and the military government," political satirist Winyu "John" Wongsurawat told Reuters.
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He said he had been in Apuí since 1983, like other settlers encouraged by the military government of the time to deforest and populate the region.
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None of it was especially dangerous in my opinion, but anytime you're in a place like Myanmar with a military government, you've got to tread carefully.
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The military government has acknowledged it wants to maintain permanent influence over future elected governments, partly through a new constitution that took effect earlier this year.
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To stamp out dissent, the military government is now willing to openly trespass into the religious sphere and clamp down on a very popular Buddhist leader.
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Politicians from both main political parties have criticized the purchase of the S26T submarines, accusing the military government of mismanaging priorities at a time of economic downturn.
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In 6.743, Fiji Water laid off employees in response to a threat of a tax increase on its bottled water exports by Fiji's military government under Bainimarama.
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Human rights groups have accused Thailand's ruling military government of applying the lese majeste law more widely since a 2014 coup as a way to silence critics.
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But the Mayan communities say a dictatorial military government granted the mining rights during the Guatemalan Civil War and on February 8, 2011, Guatemala's highest court agreed.
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"The palace, together with the military government have to ensure that the royal transition, which is happening right now, would be smooth," the Kyoto University professor said.
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Many are watching to see how Thaksin's party performs in a vote which the military government has promised to hold in November but which could be delayed.
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The Southeast Asian nation's economy was devastated by nearly 50 years of economic mismanagement under the military government, which ended direct rule of the country in 2011.
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The Southeast Asian nation's economy was devastated by nearly 21 years of economic mismanagement under the military government, which ended direct rule of the country in 2206.0000.
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But in recent weeks the military government has announced measures worth at least 59.28 billion baht ($1.70 billion) aimed at curbing market supply and stabilizing rice prices.
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In 2014, sales were hit by political unrest that preceded an army coup and since then, the military government has struggled to revive the export-dependant economy.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government has suspended international flights by Thai airlines that have not received new operator certificates from the country's aviation body, a spokesman said.
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Prosecutions for insults to the monarchy have risen rapidly and sentences have become increasingly harsh under a royalist military government that seized power in a 2014 coup.
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Many nationalist Buddhists reject the name Rohingya and call them Bengalis, implying that they are interlopers from Bangladesh, a position also taken by the former military government.
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Meanwhile, the military government is setting up a social enterprise company nationwide to improve the rural economy, with provinces owning three-quarters and Thai conglomerates the rest.
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These networks are already in use to protect sensitive military, government, and commercial communications against today's security threats and those future risks of 'wait and see' collection.
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Maybe a little too much, in fact, as the head of military government in Paris never responded to his first letter, convinced it was a colleague's prank.
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"All problems will be addressed normally based on a democratic system with no use of special powers," he said, referring to sweeping powers the military government wielded.
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Thailand's military government, which has called elections for the end of February, has backed medical usage, which must be approved by the nation's monarch, King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
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But when Mr. Min was a teenager he defied his family and joined the student protest movement, concerned that the Burmese military government was strangling the country.
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The program won her Pheu Thai Party votes, but Thailand's current military government says it wasted billions of dollars, as stockpiles of unsold rice decayed in warehouses.
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Mr. Yalcin was arrested in 1979 by Turkey's military government because of his ties to a Marxist-Leninist group and received two life sentences for "revolutionary activities."
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Alleging economic crisis and social unrest, Pinochet's newly instated military government set about undoing social programs, suspending the constitution, and enforcing violence against Chilean citizens deemed disloyal.
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The song took on new meaning in 1973 when the country's president, Salvador Allende, was overthrown, killed, and replaced with a military government led by Augusto Pinochet.
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James praised a mediation effort led by Ethiopia and said Washington had made clear "in very strong terms" that a unilateral military government would not be acceptable.
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To win the group's backing, candidates must be able to appeal to Trump supporters and must have past service in the military, government or non-profit sector.
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BANGKOK – Thailand&aposs military government on Friday praised the U.S. State Department&aposs decision to upgrade the country in its annual report on efforts to fight human trafficking.
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Many are watching to see how Puea Thai Party performs in a vote which the military government has promised to hold in November but which could be delayed.
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Military government leader Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said after the king's death that security was his top priority and he ordered extra troops deployed around the country.
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For example, officials cited Sudan's transition from a civilian-military government, Nigeria's lack of identity management for its citizens and Myanmar's struggles with tracking lost and stolen passports.
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The military government also failed to issue an official decree committing to holding a general election by Friday, meaning it is less likely to be held on Feb.
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These inventories acted as a drag on the rice price, even after the new military government in Thailand ended the subsidy scheme and started selling down the stockpile.
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The prospect of complications in the succession in the politically divided country could alarm financial markets, but the military government has been quick to quash any such speculation.
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The clause, drafted by the military government, held a specific effect: It prevented Aung San Suu Kyi, whose children were born in Britain, from being head of state.
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Well, this is technically a military government ... So, the question is, will these sanctions put so much pressure on the Venezuelan military that they finally turn on Maduro?
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Under its head, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the military government has exercised tough control on over its detractors, and threatened "attitude adjustment" detention from time to time.
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Shortly thereafter, current Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha who represents the ruling military government, also threw his hat into the ring under the pro-military Palang Pracharat Party.
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As Arida and others have noted, that would mean breaking with Bolsonaro's record of praising the nationalist, state-driven economic policies of Brazil's military government in that 1970s.
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The military government closed down the Chatree mine, located 240 km (174 miles) north of Bangkok, under an executive power in December 2016, citing environmental and health concerns.
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That seems unlikely under the military government of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who has kept a tight grip on power since toppling an elected government in 2014.
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Instead of reading poems the next day, she talked about the murder and the campaign of violence by the military government, which was backed by the United States.
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The move by Thailand's military government is a stroke of luck for the boys, who play for a youth soccer team called Moo Pa, or the Wild Boars.
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"The pressure on this government is much worse than it was on the military government," said U Win Htein, a former adviser to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.
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No wonder the military government seemed both irritated and flustered when in early January Vajiralongkorn, after just a month on the throne, asked to modify the draft charter.
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Bouterse led the South American country through the 1980s as head of a military government, then assumed office again in 20073 and secured re-election five years later.
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Late Friday, at least 10 prisoners were released from the notorious Insein Prison near Yangon, where many political prisoners were held over the years by the military government.
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And Maher astutely probes how laws meant to protect women from harassment can also be used to control and punish blasphemers, minorities and critics of the military government.
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Bouterse led the South American country through the 1980s as head of a military government, then assumed office again in 2010 and secured re-election five years later.
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He served as planning minister in the first years of Brazil's 1964-1985 military government, championing free-market policies and foreign investment in Brazil, especially from the United States.
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Newspaper Folha de S.Paulo said it has tried to give fair coverage of Bolsonaro, an apologist for Brazil's 1964-1985 military government, based upon the strength of his polling.
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The military government put off a bidding round of concessions for 29 onshore and offshore blocks in early 2015 due to criticism of contract terms from politicians and activists.
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The Thai military government has taken part since 2015 in talks brokered by Malaysia that aim to end the violence but the BRN has stayed out of the dialogue.
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Nicknamed the 'Trump of the Tropics,' Bolsonaro rose to power praising the U.S.-backed military government that ran Brazil for two decades before a return to democracy in 1985.
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In 2000 the military government excluded the Rohingyas from a list of more than 2700 officially recognised ethnic groups in the country, dismissing them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
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On April 22014th the latest military leader, Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, announced his intention to "uproot" the military government, prosecute those guilty of killing protesters and reform the NISS.
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The use of pen names and the popularity of subversive poetry would continue under the military government that seized power in 1962, following a 14-year period of independence.
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Rubber farmers in Thailand, one of the world's biggest exporters of natural rubber, threatened last month to protest if the military government does not help prop up falling prices.
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In 2014 Joe Biden, the United States' vice-president, handed documents to Brazil's then-president, Dilma Rousseff, with information about torture by the country's military government in the 1970s.
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Under the military government which seized power in a May 2014 coup, prosecution of those deemed to have insulted the monarchy have risen rapidly and sentences become increasingly harsh.
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The military government has acknowledged it wants to weaken political parties and maintain permanent influence over elected governments, partly through a new constitution approved by the king last month.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday approved a 100 billion baht ($2.93 billion) infrastructure fund, as the military government seeks to finance more investment projects to boost the economy.
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The military government has ramped up spending and investment projects in a bid to spur growth in Southeast Asia's second largest economy, which lags regional peers despite stimulus efforts.
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Guedes, a fund manager and former professor, says he has steered ex-Army captain Bolsonaro away from the state-led industrial model of the nation's 1964-1985 military government.
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Until his presidential run, Bolsonaro was best known for his defense of the 1964-1985 military government and being charged with hate crimes for misogynist, racist and homophobic rants.
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The most important economic post, that of deputy prime minister in charge of economic matters, is being retained by Somkid Jatusripitak, who held it in the outgoing military government.
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A major focus for the company has been agriculture, but it's seeing a lot of growth in areas like energy and insurance as well as non-military government uses.
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A civil war that involved the overthrow of the military government of President Siad Barre in 1991 destroyed the state, crippled food production and left the country in chaos.
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The biggest priorities, Parit said, are solving the country's economic issues, restoring civil liberties, and tackling corruption -- issues that he sees are the biggest failings of the military government.
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The block under license, OML 11, has been undeveloped for nearly 25 years, since the execution of regional activist Ken Saro-Wiwa under the military government of Sani Abacha.
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The months that followed al-Bashir's arrest saw the formation of a transitional military government, continued protests, shocking levels of violence, short-lived negotiations, more violence, and more protests.
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It survived a World War II bombing of the city and has been unoccupied since 2005, when Myanmar's military government moved the capital from Yangon, formerly Rangoon, to Naypyidaw.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai activist was charged on Monday with defying the orders of the military government, the latest critic to be arrested for activities outlawed since a 2014 coup.
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Since taking power, the military government has made increasing use of the royal insult law, which can carry a penalty of up to 15 years for each offence, against critics.
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BERLIN, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Germany wants to invest 130 billion euros ($140.76 billion) over the next 15 years on upgrading equipment for its military, government sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
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This public key infrastructure is the de facto security infrastructure in use today, securing the entire internet — including sensitive and super-secure communications for the military, government and financial institutions.
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Thailand's strict lese-majeste laws, which have been applied rigorously since a military government took power in a 2014 coup, have left little room for public discussion about the succession.
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The military government has introduced stimulus measures and ramped up investment in infrastructure projects in a bid to revive growth in Southeast Asia's second-largest economy, which has lagged peers.
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The military government put off a bidding round of concessions for 29 onshore and offshore blocks in early 2015 due to criticism of the contract terms from politicians and activists.
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In 2011 widespread animosity, even within the regime, led the head of Myanmar's military government, Thein Sein, to halt construction of a huge dam being built by Chinese state companies.
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Specific blasphemy laws which punished perceived insults to Islam were introduced between 1980 and 1986, during a period of martial law under the military government of General Zia-ul-Haq.
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Iraqi Kurdistan operates has operated semi-autonomously from Iraq's central government, with its own military, government, and foreign policy — it's the closest thing to a Kurdish state in recent decades.
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Her no-show Friday was a "big surprise" to most people in Thailand, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University, told CNN, and will have "emboldened" the military government.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government has set up security centers around the country ahead of an August referendum on a new constitution, a spokesman for the government said on Monday.
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Burma itself (though officially renamed Myanmar by the military government in 1989, everyone I spoke with in Fort Wayne calls it Burma) is sliced into about a dozen separate skirmishes.
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With tension rising four days after the military government ordered emergency powers to be used in the search, monks and police pushed and shoved at one of the temple gates.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government plans to put up for auction petroleum concessions held by Chevron Corp and PTT Exploration and Production Pcl, Energy Minister Anantaporn Kanjanarat said on Monday.
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Mr. Prayuth, the head of Thailand's military government, spoke with the family members for about 30 minutes, sometimes wandering to topics such as politics and which garden vegetables to plant.
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Since taking power in May 234.58 to end months of political unrest, Thailand's military government has battled weak exports and domestic demand in the effort to revive a sluggish economy.
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Thanathorn, who founded the progressive Future Forward Party, said he and seven others were charged with breaching a law on public gatherings that was imposed under Prayuth's former military government.
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Police on Saturday arrested a Thai democracy activist opposed to the military government that has been in power since a 2014 coup for sharing a link to the BBC profile.
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Hundreds of people have flocked to Bangkok in recent weeks to urge the military government not to delay the vote, some of the biggest anti-junta demonstrations seen since 2014.
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Taunting lyrics of Nigerian Fela Kuti, Africa's Bob Marley, so enraged Nigeria's military government in the 1970's that they burned his house down and threw his mother out a window.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Less than three weeks before a contentious constitutional referendum, Thailand's military government is scrambling to drum up support, broadcasting songs and television programs in a vigorous public relations campaign.
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The military government has promised to hold an election next year whether the draft constitution is approved or not, but its rejection would inevitably raise questions about the government's road map.
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According to Chilean court documents, Jara was shot dead by soldiers in Chile's Estadio Nacional, which served as a mass detention and torture center in the early days the military government.
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"Development can only be sustained when people are secure," said Wai Wai Nu, a former political prisoner under Myanmar's military government who is now founder and director of Women Peace Network.
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The military government has made it clear it wants to oversee economic and political developments for years to come, even after a general election it has promised to hold in 2017.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities have arrested 16 people who were protesting against the construction of a coal-fired power plant, drawing criticism of the military government from rights activists and environmentalists.
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Libya is also adjacent to Tunisia, a rare democratic country in the Arab world, and to Egypt, the most populous Arab country, which is ruled by a relatively stable military government.
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The protesters, who maintain an ongoing sit-in at the square in front of the military headquarters in the capital, claim that the military government is not negotiating in good faith.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government has approved 13.5 billion baht ($380 million) to buy a submarine from China after putting the purchase on hold last year, Thai officials said on Wednesday.
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Bangkok (Reuters) - Thailand's military government said on Tuesday it would ask other countries to extradite people suspected of insulting the nation's monarchy following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej last week.
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Women in the military, government, Silicon Valley, Hollywood and TV and the theater, athletics, Wall Street, fire stations and police departments -- just to give a few examples -- will attest to this.
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HONG KONG — Although a proposed constitution drafted by Thailand's military government has been endorsed by a majority of voters, regional returns show that deep political divides remain, analysts said on Monday.
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Anti-government protesters began marching in Bangkok on Tuesday from a university in the Thai capital to Government House to demand that the military government hold a general election by November.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A $45-billion plan to redevelop Thailand's industrial east will go ahead regardless of whoever takes power after elections, the military government told hundreds of Japanese investors on Monday.
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More than 500 people gathered on Saturday at Thammasat University in Bangkok to protest Thailand's military government, delivering an ultimatum that their demands must be met by May 22, Reuters reports.
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Before Thailand's military government enacted a tough law on migrant workers last June, the country had as many as three million unregistered migrant workers, many from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.
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Op-Ed Contributor KHON KAEN, Thailand — King Maha Vajiralongkorn signed into force Thailand's 20th Constitution on Thursday, three months after surprising the military government by requesting revisions to its proposed charter.
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The Thai military government has always used a mandatory reverence for the monarchy as a tool of political control, and has carefully cultivated a very monarchical image for the new king.
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"I hope the choice of voting tomorrow will throw, thrust away the military government and bring us back to constitutionality," Mugabe said from his mansion in the capital Harare on Sunday.
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But billions of dollars in government spending aimed at reviving the ailing rural economy have failed to reach farmers, fuelling disaffection with the military government ahead of elections expected next year.
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But — and this is a fundamental point for the Tatmadaw — any concession would have to be negotiated within the terms of the 2008 Constitution, which was drafted by a military government.
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On Sunday, Trump also extended a White House invitation to Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, a former general who heads a military government that took power in a 2014 coup.
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During the years of direct U.S. occupation from 1945 to 1948, the U.S. military government created an administrative state that was dominated by Koreans who had collaborated with Japan's colonial rulers.
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The military government in Thailand, another American ally, has bought submarines from China and, at China's request, deported Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic group that China accuses of fomenting violence in China.
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The idea is to save the government money and simplify customer service — goals initially pursued by the Obama administration in what would be one of the largest non-military government contracts.
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The military government has managed to sell off most of about 18 million tonnes of rice accumulated during the rice scheme, some of it for industrial purposes, according to the commerce ministry.
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The United States is a major market for Thai exports at a time the military government is struggling to revive growth in Southeast Asia's second's largest economy, which has lagged regional peers.
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Despite the success, the military government is unlikely to try to take advantage of the good mood to bring forward the election, in which it hopes Thaksin's influence will finally be overcome.
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When the military government took charge in Thailand in 2014, it vowed to "take back the forest" and increase forest cover to 40% of the total surface area from about a third.
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The military government that came to power in a 2014 coup had repeatedly said a general election would be held in 2017, even after the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Oct.
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The March 24 vote was conducted under a complicated electoral system that critics say was devised by the military government to weaken democracy, but which the ruling junta says will ensure stability.
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"Before the military government took over, and the country went into what I like to call the Rip Van Winkle era, (Myanmar) was one of the leading countries in Asia," she said.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government suspended the governor of Bangkok, the country's most senior elected official, on Thursday while the country's attorney general investigates allegations of corruption and misuse of city funds.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's transport authorities have begun a crackdown on drivers for ride-hailing services Uber and Grab and want the military government to ban them, a transport official said on Tuesday.
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Since taking power in a 2014 coup, Prayuth's military government has tried to restore what it sees as traditional Thai values, saying some Thai traditions have been corrupted by outside, Western influences.
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The military government has increased the defense budget every year since, although most recent defense purchases have been Chinese, including a controversial deal for three submarines that provoked questions over its transparency.
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However, a military-linked party aiming to keep current junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha in power is expected to have the edge in cementing power under rules written by the military government.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds gathered at a Bangkok university on Saturday to deliver an ultimatum to Thailand's military government, the latest in a series of anti-government demonstrations that began earlier this year.
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There was no evidence the junta had been aware Yingluck might have intended to skip bail, but suspicions circulated among her supporters that her departure was very convenient for the military government.
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"This will embolden the military government because they did not have to put her in jail," said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, the director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University.
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The fact is that when the pro-democracy spokesperson Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest there, she could bravely work against oppressive behavior on the part of the military government.
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BANGKOK — Thailand's military government is seeking the extradition of the country's last elected prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, who fled to Britain rather than go to prison for five years on negligence charges.
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Then last year, President Barack Obama dropped sanctions on aid from Washington to the government of Myanmar, as well as restrictions on several dozen people with ties to the former military government.
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Under the military government a law's power generally corresponded to that of the person or institution backing it, but now that Myanmar is "quasi-democratic," she said, no clear guidelines have emerged.
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On Monday evening, the fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra added his voice to the growing chorus of criticism, saying that Thailand's military government "manipulated" polling to ensure its grip on power.
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Shortly after its liberation in 1945 from Imperial Japan, the nation was split into two sovereign states: South Korea under the U.S. military government and North Korea aligning with the Soviet Union.
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Only a third of Americans under 35 say that it is vital they live in a democracy; the share who would welcome military government grew from 7% in 1995 to 18403% last year.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government plans to spend about 406 billion baht ($11.59 billion) on airport development nationwide over the next 10 years to handle increasing passengers, a senior official said on Monday.
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The military government says the proposed constitution would heal Thailand's caustic political divide and it is relying on a more traditional campaign to woo support, using broadcasts of patriotic songs and television programs.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, ousted in a 2014 coup, called on her supporters for help as the military government "temporarily froze" 37 of her properties and 16 bank accounts.
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Thailand's military government is working on a law to help regulate Buddhism, officials say, giving the junta far more say over a pillar of Thai society that has so far eluded its control.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - The leader of a new party that has challenged Thailand's military government was charged on Saturday with sedition, the latest legal action facing the rising star after a disputed March election.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of migrant workers, most of them from Myanmar, have fled from Thailand in fear after new labor regulations adopted by the military government, immigration officials said on Monday.
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BANGKOK — The crown prince of Thailand, who declined to become king last week, will ascend the throne soon, possibly as early as Friday, the head of Thailand's military government said on Tuesday. Gen.
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That was when Argentina's political split reached its nadir, with a barbarous descent by that military government into torture, murder and the disappearance of tens of thousands of opponents, many of them young.
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Mengistu was found guilty in absentia of genocide in the same trial in 2007, where he and top members of his military government were accused of killing thousands during his 17-year rule.
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Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan told reporters on Tuesday that the military government, which took power in May 2014, were making security preparations ahead of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha on September 12.
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In 1972 he joined a congressional coalition seeking to relax United States relations with Fidel Castro's Communist regime in Cuba, and in 1973 he circulated a petition opposing the military government in Chile.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi received honorary citizenship from Canada in October 2007 for her pro-democracy campaign in Myanmar, where she spent 15 years under house arrest under the former military government.
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Buenos Aires — The military government plans to use the Argentine press and public opinion polls as a substitute for the congress which has been dissolved and the political parties which have been banned.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government will submit a constitution for royal endorsement on Tuesday, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said, a step that should pave the way for a general election in 2017.
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The move was first reported by the U.K.-based online news organization Middle East Eye and comes as Sudan's interim civilian and military government works towards developing democracy in the East African country.
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The military government has pushed through a new constitution that it hopes will ensure its oversight over stable government for years to come and it looks firmly in control for a royal transition.
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Di Benedetto was released in 1977, thanks to the intercession of the renowned Argentinean writer Ernesto Sábato and of the Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll, who wrote to the head of the military government.
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Looking back, Mr. Anas said, Algerian society was not ready for the suddenness of what he called the "remote-control change" of 1992 but he blamed the military government for the deadly violence.
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Yingluck, who swept to power in a 2011 general election, introduced a rice subsidy scheme that proved wildly popular with farmers but which the military government says caused billions of dollars in losses.
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"People who want intervention have no idea what a military government is," said Ana Miranda, who said she was tortured in the late 1960s and jailed four years for participating in anti-government demonstrations.
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A former Army captain who came of age under the dictatorship, Bolsonaro has defended the legacy of the military government and has included several retired generals in his cabinet since taking office in January.
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But Thailand's military government says the packages, known as "zero dollar" tours aimed at Chinese tourists on a budget, are tarnishing the country's image and the tourist police have moved to shut them down.
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BANGKOK, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet approved on Tuesday an infrastructure action plan worth 895.8 billion baht ($25.2 billion) for 2017, as the military government ramps up investment projects to boost a sluggish economy.
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Yingluck, however, has defended her rice-buying scheme in her trial on charges of criminal negligence over her management of the subsidy system, which the military government says cost the country around $8 billion.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government will try to persuade media companies Facebook and Line to comply with court orders to remove content it considers harmful to peace and order, a senior official said Sunday.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand kicked off its annual water festival or Songkran holiday on Thursday amid warnings from the military government to rein in the festival's usual exuberance as the country mourns its late king.
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The military government is struggling to implement a draft energy law approved in late 2015 that will enable it to open a bidding round for new petroleum exploration concessions expected in the second half.
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The military government declared official mourning for a year and called for all festivities be postponed for an initial 30-day period, though it also asked for businesses and investors to maintain economic activity.
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The military government has recently relaxed some political restrictions by allowing political parties to organize but a ban on campaigning and gatherings of more than five people remains in place at least until December.
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In 2015, the military government asked SRT to lease the Makkasan land to the finance ministry to clear some of its debt, as part of a plan to get better returns from state land.
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It is the latest in a series of allegations against the military government that seized power in May 2014, promising to root out entrenched corruption in state institutions and close Thailand's festering political divide.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha formally resigned as the head of the military government on Monday, saying the country would function as a normal democracy after five years of military rule.
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Mr. Mengistu was found guilty in absentia of genocide in the same trial in 2007, where he and top members of his military government were accused of killing thousands during his 17-year rule.
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Reverend Hkalam Samson, of the Kachin Baptist Convention, an organization based in the northern Kachin state representing Myanmar's mostly Christian Kachin minority, said Christians were being "oppressed and tortured by the Myanmar military government".
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - The former Buddhist abbot at the heart of a standoff with authorities at Thailand's biggest temple has been stripped of his monastic rank by the king, the military government said on Sunday.
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The military government had initially promised a vote within 18 months of a May 2014 coup, but the timetable has slipped - intensifying suspicion among government critics about the army's real willingness to relinquish power.
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Land confiscation in Myanmar became a major issue under the previous military government, with estimates of as many 2 million acres (800,000 hectares) or more of land seized from farmers and other civilians without compensation.
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The 19 men were originally arrested and charged by police in August for violating a ban on political gatherings after setting up a monitoring center to oversee a constitutional referendum held by the military government.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Tuesday questioned a move by Thailand's military government to freeze her assets in relation to a $1-billion fine it imposed over her government's rice buying scheme.
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Karoblis said Lithuania has seen an intensification of cyber attacks aimed at shutting down websites and that these attacks seem aimed more at military, government, and energy sites than at the websites of financial institutions.
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Thailand may be going through its driest period in 20 years, but the country's military government wants visitors from around the globe to know that the biggest water fight in the world is still on.
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Guatemala has struggled to thwart corruption and organized crime since it ended 36 years of civil war in 1996, and memories have not faded of ruptures with democracy under a military government in the 1980s.
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From mid-2014 to the end of 2017, the military government has made 386 requests to Google to remove 9,986 items, almost all of which were identified as government criticism, according to Google's transparency report.
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In March this year Barack Obama said the United States would give Argentina files on its role in the "dirty war" waged by Argentina's military government against its own citizens in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The pro-military Palang Pracharat Party, which was co-founded by four of Prayuth's former cabinet ministers, has said it is contesting the polls with the aim of continuing the work of the military government.
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On the eve of the July 30 vote, Mugabe, 94, said he would vote for the opposition to remove Mnangagwa's "military government", expressing bitterness toward his one-time allies in the ruling ZANU-PF party.
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For all these reasons, we have joined dozens of leaders from the entertainment, technology, business, military, government, and nonprofit sectors to endorse Service Year Alliance and Voices for National Service's joint Challenge to Presidential Candidates.
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The loans follow various stimulus measures as the military-government has struggled to revive the economy since seizing power in May 2014 to end months of street protests, with exports and domestic demand still weak.
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The military government, which has promised an election next year, says the proposed constitution will heal divisions after years of rivalry between election-winning populist political forces and a military-dominated establishment wary of challenges.
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The standoff at the Dhammakaya temple between thousands of police and saffron-robed monks has posed one of the greatest challenges to the military government since it took power in 2014 and largely neutralized opposition.
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The junta led by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who toppled Yingluck's government in a 2014 coup, has reacted skittishly as Thaksin has become more vocal in his opposition to the military government this year.
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Until the case is resolved, the fate of the tigers is mired in a legal standoff that pits wildlife officials, conservationists and Thailand's military government against a wealthy tourist enterprise backed by influential Buddhist monks.
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The military government has curbed dissent and pushed back the timetable for elections raising concern about the prospects of a country that was for years hailed as an example of a successfully developing Asian economy.
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BANGKOK, July 21 (Reuters) - Less than three weeks away from a hotly awaited constitutional referendum, Thailand's military government is scrambling to drum up support, broadcasting songs and television programmes in a vigorous public relations campaign.
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Asked about criticism that Thai laws were used to silence human rights defenders, government spokesman Major General Weerachon Sukondhapatipak said the military government, which took power in a 2014 coup, was acting within the law.
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Political instability has haunted Southeast Asia's second biggest economy for the past decade and promises on a return to democracy from the military government, which came to power after a 2014 coup, are closely watched.
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BANGKOK — In its first test at the polls, Thailand's military government won overwhelming approval Sunday of a new Constitution that aims to reduce the power of political parties and extend the influence of the military.
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The group transformed into a criminal outfit in the 1980s amid an influx of Salvadoran immigrants fleeing a brutal civil war between the US-backed Salvadoran military government and a coalition of left-wing guerrillas.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government on Tuesday said it will not yet lift a ban on political activity, despite a general election scheduled for next year and growing pressure from political parties to lift it.
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Since a military government took charge in 2014, Thailand's ubiquitous brothels have been hit by a spate of police raids as tourism authorities pledged to transform the country into a luxury destination for moneyed tourists.
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Mengistu was found guilty in absentia of genocide in the same trial in Ethiopia in 2007 after he and top members of his military government were accused of killing thousands during his 17-year rule.
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Before visiting Nicaragua in 19883, he had already championed a city referendum repudiating American support for a military government in El Salvador, and had lobbied the board of aldermen to denounce the invasion of Grenada.
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Surapot Taweesak, a Buddhist scholar, said the controversy showed the reforms of Buddhism that took place under the previous military government, which aimed to clean up temples and the monkhood stalked by scandals, have failed.
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Since the coup, the military government has sought to counterbalance U.S. ties by developing relations with China and Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan met his Chinese counterpart, Chang Wanquan, during a visit to Beijing last week.
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Under the ERA, commonsense accommodations for pregnant women in the workforce and the military, government programs such as Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and criminal protections via the Violence Against Women Act could all end.
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The ban is part of a wider effort by the Thai military government, which came to power in a 2014 coup, to impose order in a city famous for its night life and cheap street food.
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Despite the military government denying any knowledge of his disappearance, Thawip Netniyom, chief of Thailand's National Security Council, told reporters on Tuesday that Wuthipong could be setting up his own disappearance to damage the junta's image.
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BANGKOK, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Thailand's military government plans to open bids in March 2017 for expiring oil and gas contracts held by Chevron Corp and PTT Exploration and Production, an energy ministry official said on Thursday.
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Bolsonaro, a former army captain and apologist for Brazil's 1964-1985 military government, has struggled to forge alliances with major parties, partly because of a track record of offensive comments about women, homosexuals and racial minorities.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama formally announced the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Myanmar on Friday by terminating an emergency order that deemed the policies of the former military government a threat to U.S. national security.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military-government is hoping big-ticket investment projects will spur Southeast Asia's second-largest economy, which has struggled after more than two years of military rule, with exports and domestic demand persistently weak.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation announced Wednesday it is ending its shortwave transmissions from Thailand after 20 years of operation, because it failed to reach agreement with Thailand's military government on a renewal of its operating permit.
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BANGKOK, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Thailand's military government will complete by September 2017 an auction for expiring oil and gas contracts held by Chevron Corp and PTT Exploration and Production, the country's energy minister said on Monday.
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But mounting evidence of atrocities by the army puts Suu Kyi, who has no control over the armed forces under a constitution written by the previous military government, in a difficult position, Myanmar-based diplomats say.
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BANGKOK – Thailand&aposs military government wants to control how movies portray the ordeal of the young soccer players and their heroic rescue from a flooded cave that drew worldwide interest and the attention of foreign filmmakers.
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Pennsylvania-based Inert Products is an eye-opening seller of fake Islamic State weapons, fake casualties (including body parts), simulated explosives, and replica ordnance—all in the name of military, government, and law enforcement training purposes.
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Mr. Law and his late father, Lo Hsing Han — who was once described by the United States as the "Godfather of Heroin" — prospered under the military government, which awarded them contracts to build large infrastructure projects.
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In the 60s, President Lyndon Johnson really didn't want Brazil, the biggest country in South America, to turn communist, so the CIA helped replace Brazil's leftist leadership with a military government by way of a coup.
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At 41 percent, Haddad's rejection rate is closing in on the 45 percent rejection of Bolsonaro, a former army captain who has defended Brazil's 1964-1985 military government and angered many with misogynist and racist remarks.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Battle lines are being drawn between Thailand's military government and the populist movement led by ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra as both sides attempt to outmaneuver the other before a general election due in 2019.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government has put on hold plans for a coal-fired power plant in a region known for its pristine tourist beaches after protests by residents and activists, Thai media said on Monday.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thirty media bodies in Thailand marked World Press Freedom day on Wednesday by calling on the military government to scrap legislation that seeks to tighten control of news reporting in the Southeast Asian country.
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The setback is just one sign of potential difficulty for the party, the National League for Democracy, when it succeeds a quasi-military government that has ensured the armed forces will continue to have significant authority.
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A California man suspected of accessing and defacing numerous military, government and business websites, including that of West Point's Combating Terrorism Center and the New York City Comptroller's Office, was arrested Thursday on computer fraud charges.
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But the law has stalled, according to National League for Democracy members and rights advocates, as a conservative, male-dominated establishment with ties to the former military government tries to dilute some of its strongest language.
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After the military government turned nominally civilian in 2011, some of these arrangements, many of which had been left unwritten, were formalized: Within a few years, some 14 ethnic armed groups signed individual cease-fire agreements.
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Bolsonaro has questioned the use of higher interest rates to control inflation and defended the state-led development policy of Brazil's military government in the 1970s, but he has made recent overtures to the business community.
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Hamdok, who was appointed prime minister in August, is charged with overseeing a transitional civilian and military government working towards relieving a desperate economic situation held back from the brink by cash infusions from foreign governments.
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During 18 months of his reign so far, King Vajiralongkorn has moved to consolidate the authority of the monarchy, including taking more direct control of the crown's vast wealth with the help of Thailand's military government.
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OpenSSL was used to secure the web servers used by two-thirds of all active websites on the net, as well as email servers, chat servers, VPNs and the network infrastructure of military, government, and financial institutions.
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Weak demand from top rice consumer China as the country's economic growth slows has further dragged on prices of the grain, plunging many Thai farmers into debt and forcing them to seek help from their military government.
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Bolsonaro's praise for Brazil's 1964-85 military government, past rhetoric about killing political opponents and closing Congress has rattled many Brazilians who fear a return to dictatorship, though he has repeatedly vowed to adhere to democratic norms.
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The unidentified young woman was photographed during protests in Santiago, marking 43 years since the bloody military coup, which resulted in President Salvador Allende being overthrown, killed, and replaced with a military government led by Augusto Pinochet.
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The military government has defended its rights record saying it must act to maintain order after a decade of divisive and at times violent political rivalry that has pitted the royalist-military establishment against populist political forces.
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A military government investigation team in January 2015 said more than 300 people tested positive for arsenic and manganese at Chatree, which is run by Akara Resources Public Company Limited, a subsidiary of Australia's Kingsgate Consolidated Ltd .
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It's unclear what the speeches were about, but a Kaspersky spokesperson said Flynn was paid "to speak at a Washington forum in 2015 that brought together other military, government, technology and policy experts," according to the Post.
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A weeks-old standoff at the Dhammakaya temple between thousands of police and saffron-robed monks has posed one of the greatest challenges to the military government since it took power in 2014 and largely neutralized opposition.
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Under President Joko Widodo, Indonesia's total defense spending jumped around 26 percent, and last month Thailand's military government approved a 13.5 billion baht ($389.05 million) submarine deal with China after putting the purchase on hold last year.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Under growing pressure from Thailand's military government, and their own religious bodies, Buddhist monks have launched a fresh round of reforms in recent weeks to clean up temples and overhaul a religion stalked by scandal.
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The military government hopes the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) development project, worth 1.5 trillion baht ($45 billion), will lift growth to about 5 percent a year by 2020, from the latest government estimate of 3.5 for 2017.
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The case raised fresh questions about mainland interference in Hong Kong, which though part of China is meant to enjoy considerable autonomy under a "one country, two systems" formula, and about Chinese influence on Thailand's military government.
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It was her government that pursued the charges against the two journalists, despite her own history of serving 15 years under house arrest at the hands of an earlier military government in Myanmar, then known as Burma.
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"I hope the choice of voting tomorrow will throw, thrust away the military government and bring us back to constitutionality," said a frail looking Mugabe, in a rambling off the cuff speech that lasted almost an hour.
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The military government in Thailand has rolled out industry reforms since the European Union in 2015 threatened to ban its fish imports, but little has changed, Human Rights Watch said in a report also released last month.
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But the rice experience didn't stop Thailand from trying to boost the price of natural rubber, with the military government last year buying up supplies from farmers in order to restrict the amount reaching the open market.
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It led to unsold rice stocks of as much as 18 million tonnes, caused Thailand to lose its crown as the world's top rice exporter and led to losses of $8 billion, the ruling military government says.
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In the spring of 2007, President Musharraf, stung by rulings that challenged his military government, fired the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, setting off nationwide protests by lawyers that led to his ouster in August 2008.
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During the 18 months of his reign so far, King Vajiralongkorn has moved to consolidate the authority of the monarchy, including taking more direct control of the crown's vast wealth with the help of Thailand's military government.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was sacked as president illegally and the international community must help remove the "military government" that has taken power or risk the country descending into chaos, an exiled Mugabe loyalist said on Friday.
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Ahead of a long-awaited election, scheduled for February 24th after years of delays, the military government is expected to relax a few of its repressive rules, including a ban on political gatherings of more than five people.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government said on Monday it will prosecute cases concerning national security and royal insult in civilian courts instead of military courts, a change a rights group said was "window dressing" before a U.N. review.
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Ahead of a general election scheduled for next year, supporters of the Shinawatras, backed by poor, rural voters, accuse the military government, which took power after a 2014 coup, of seeking to hobble the family and its allies.
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The Economist reported that a third of Americans under 35 say that it is vital to live in a democracy; the share that would welcome military government grew from 21625 percent in 2900 to 220006 percent last year.
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The military government has imposed a strict ban on all political activity since a 2014 military coup, citing the need for peace and order after months of street protests against a civilian government of prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
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Thailand's military government, which recently won public support in a referendum, is expected to distribute more wealth to the countryside, bolstering consumer spending and economic growth generally, said Mark Mobius, executive chairman of the Templeton Emerging Markets Group.
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Nixon's anti-Semitism is on full display in the tapes, for example, and they also confirm Nixon and Henry Kissinger's support for the genocide being conducted by Pakistan's military government against Bangladesh in the latter's war for independence.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government has accused opposition members of flouting a ban on political activity, among other charges, after they criticized it for reneging on promises to restore democracy and protect basic rights, police said on Friday.
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All along the pipeline route, project authorities working with Myanmar's previous military government confiscated farmers' land, in whole or in part (even though laws forbid foreigners to own land in Myanmar), and paid a pittance for the property.
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He said the block had been undeveloped for nearly 25 years since the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a prominent writer who was among nine protest leaders executed in 1995 by the then military government of Sani Abacha.
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"In the Thai cave rescue, 13 people were treated as human beings by the military government," said Mr. Kyaw Swa, who works for the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network in the now-flooded city of Hpa-An.
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A passionate opponent of President Omar al-Bashir's military government, which has been charged with genocide, Mr. Sarrar had been stabbed in 2014 — he is reluctant to discuss the exact circumstances — and spent six months in the hospital.
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The military government has repeatedly pushed back the general election but said last week the ban on political activities would likely be lifted later this month and that political parties would be able to start campaigning in early January.
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BANGKOK, Thailand (Reuters) - Thailand's military government on Wednesday kicked off a drive to convince citizens to vote in an August referendum for a draft constitution that the junta has said will pave the way for an election next year.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand goes to the polls on Sunday under a new system that critics say the military government has devised to prevent the most popular political party, which has won every election since 261, from returning to power.
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BANGKOK, May 19 (Reuters) - Thailand's military government on Friday asked state-owned companies to accelerate investment spending after having disbursed just a quarter of the budget allotted for this fiscal year, the junta's latest effort to sustain economic momentum.
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Thailand already has a cyber-security law under which the spread of false information carries a jail sentence of up to seven years, and the military government strictly enforces lese majeste laws that shield the royal family from insult.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government has rolled out a series of rescue packages in a bid to help rice farmers, most of whom hail from the political heartlands of the government it toppled, amid tumbling prices of the grain.
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The military government used an emergency law on Thursday to let police explore the scandal-hit Dhammakaya Temple after months of failing to get it to hand over its former abbot, Phra Dhammachayo, in a politicised money-laundering case.
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BANGKOK, Jan 22006 (Reuters) - Thailand's parliament on Friday approved an additional 20133 billion baht ($22013 billion) in public spending this fiscal year, aimed at improving growth outside its capital, as the military government tries to stimulate a sluggish economy.
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"We don't believe the military government will hold elections next year because all they do is lie to us," said Nopakrai Jaidee, who had camped out overnight at Thammasat to ensure he would be able to join the demonstration.
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Under the subsidy scheme, the government bought rice from farmers at above-market prices, resulting in 18 million tonnes of the grain in stockpiles, which the military government has been trying to offload since toppling Yingluck's government in 2014.
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Thai people have been encouraged for the past month by the military government to wear yellow to signify devotion to the monarchy but only in the last few days have people in Bangkok joined in on a large scale.
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In 2016 the United States removed Thailand from its list of worst human trafficking offenders, known as Tier 3, following efforts by the military government to fight trafficking in response to international criticism, including through reforms of its anti-trafficking laws.
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The president's office had earlier said it was reviewing the actions of the 11-member commission, which was established in 2012 and included some former officials who served in the previous military government that was frequently accused of rights abuses.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Dozens of Thai activists on Sunday protested against a possible delay of a national election set for next month, the first such gathering since the military government lifted a ban on political activity imposed after a 2014 coup.
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CAAT, set up last year by the military government to tackle flaws in commercial aviation, has completed new guidelines about safety inspection as required by ICAO, but more time was needed to make sure its auditors were qualified, Amphawan said.
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New rules put in place by the outgoing military government benefit smaller parties at the expense of the top vote-winning parties through a complex formula when 150 "party-list seats" are shared out in the 500-seat House of Representatives.
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Finds Gone Astray showcases a selection of the roughly 2000,22003 artifacts seized over the last 20173 years by the Archaeology Department of the Civil Administration (ADCA) — the Civil Administration being the name for Israel's military government in the West Bank.
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New rules put in place by the outgoing military government benefit smaller parties at the expense of the top vote-winning parties through a complex formula when 150 "party-list seats" are shared out in the 500-seat House of Representatives.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday approved the $258-million purchase of eight T-50 advanced jets from South Korea, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said, the latest defense acquisition by a military government that took power following a 2014 coup.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Most Thais are undecided about how they will vote next month in a referendum on a new constitution that the military government says will promote stability but which critics say will entrench military influence, a pollster said on Tuesday.
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The crackdown on street vendors is part of a wider effort by Thailand's military government, which came to power in a 2014 coup, to impose order in a city famous for its vibrant nightlife and cheap and varied street food.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Almost two months after toppling Sudan's three-decade ruler Omar al Bahsir, activists in Khartoum continue their protests as talks between the opposition and the transitional military government make slow and frequently interrupted progress.
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Observers who once thought that the generals' only priority was to act as an escort to the succession now detect nostalgia for the days when military government was the norm; it looks keen to pull Thailand's strings for years to come.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Sunday the military government should focus on dealing with the country's problems after soldiers seized thousands of red plastic bowls he and his sister sent supporters as a New Year gift.
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Mr. Allchin states that I was imprisoned for fraud by the caretaker government, but conveniently excludes the fact that the so called "caretaker government" was in fact a military government which had usurped power under the guise of a caretaker government.
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The military government has sought to reassure the country about the succession, saying the prince would formally ascend the throne soon, though his ceremonial coronation would not take place until after his father's cremation, which is expected after a year.
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Netiwit, who along with 38 others were charged with sedition for violating a ban on public assembly earlier this year, said that there is concern among activists that the military government will simply refuse to hand over power following democratic elections.
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In January 2015, a military government investigation team said that more than 300 people had tested positive for arsenic and manganese at the mine, located 280 km (174 miles) north of the capital Bangkok and operated by Kingsgate unit Akara Resources.
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The military government says the rice scheme was riddled with graft and incurred billions of dollars in losses and distorted global prices that saw Thailand lose its crown as the number one exporter of the grain to India in 2014.
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The economic leap, often called "the Miracle on the Han River," was spurred by the growth-minded military government of Park Chung-hee, which invested heavily in industrialization and infrastructure -- most of Korea's natural resources were located in the communist North.
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Nervousness about Chinese technology has long existed in the United States, fueled by the fear that the Chinese could insert a "back door" into telecom and computing networks that would allow Chinese security services to intercept military, government and corporate communications.
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As a young artist, living under Brazil's military government, she used painting, photography, video and paper collage to express her anxieties under the regime and her displacement in the New World, as well as her identity as a mother and daughter.
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Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)The leader of a popular new party that has positioned itself as a progressive opponent to Thailand's military government was charged with sedition on Saturday, the latest legal action lodged against the billionaire since contested elections in March.
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Veera Somkwamkid was charged with "importing false computer data" for a post saying most Thais lacked confidence in the military government, which took power in a 2014 coup in the name of ending more than a decade of political unrest.
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The verdict further dampened hopes that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar's civilian government and a onetime human rights icon, would usher in an era of civil liberties in a country long controlled by a military government.
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Aung San Suu Kyi was, at that point, still in the process of transitioning from a Nobel Peace Prize–winning political prisoner of Myanmar's military government — she was kept under house arrest until 2010 — to the country's de facto leader.
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Finds Gone Astray, which opened on December 21978, features 40,000 artifacts that the Archaeology Department of the Civil Administration (ADCA) — Israel's military government in the West Bank — confiscated from looters and unauthorized dealers in antiquities over the past 50 years.
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The military government has significantly increased the budget for "upholding, protecting and preserving the monarchy" to 18 billion baht ($513.70 million) in the 2016 fiscal year that began in April, a 28 percent increase from two years ago when it took over.
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BANGKOK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet approved construction on Tuesday of three dual-track railway lines worth a combined 55 billion baht ($1.57 billion), part of a larger infrastructure push by the military government as it seeks to boost sluggish economic growth.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will hold a general election in 2017, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday, seeking to allay concerns his military government might delay plans for a return to democracy, days after the country endorsed a military-backed constitution.
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BANGKOK – Thailand&aposs military government has emerged from the year of official mourning for King Bhumibol Adulyadej with a firm grip on power and in no apparent rush to hold elections it has repeatedly delayed during the four years since its coup.
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The pro-establishment cleric leading the charge against frontrunner Somjed Phra Maha Ratchamangalacharn says the military government must honor a pledge to stamp out corrupt practices that critics say were allowed to flourish during the Thaksin years, starting with the Supreme Patriarch nominee.
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The departure comes during a timeframe the military government had identified for the prince to ascend the throne, with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha saying last week it could be within seven to 15 days of the king's death, or even later.
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Ailing Thai king's health 'not stable' after haemodialysis treatment, palace says Commentary from within Thailand about the king's health and succession plans is scarce because of the country's tough royal defamation laws, which has seen increased usage under the current military government.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - The leader of Thailand's military government on Friday credited the junta with restoring a strong economic footing and called for "continuity", but he stopped short of saying whether he will be a candidate in long-delayed elections set for March 24.
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Thailand's military government has pushed for several laws it said would support the digital economy, including an amendment to the Computer Crime Act in 2017, which was intended to prosecute cyber crimes like phishing but has been used to crack down on dissent.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - The death of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej will not affect plans to hold a general election in 2017, media reported on Monday, dismissing speculation that the military government would delay the poll as the country enters a year of mourning.
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The news comes days after authorities in Bangkok said they would banish some of its world-famous street food vendors as part of a clean-up drive by the military government, outraging foodies and threatening the livelihoods of the city's road-side cooks.
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The same steelworkers union in Sao Paulo's industrial suburbs where 72-year-old Lula sought refuge served as the launch pad for his political career nearly four decades ago, when he led nationwide strikes that helped to end Brazil's 1964-85 military government.
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Experts said on Thursday that the removal of American sanctions would benefit the country's economy by stimulating the growth of smaller businesses, even as wealthy individuals and companies blacklisted because of their close ties to the former military government also stand to benefit.
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Amid record tourism numbers, the military government is readying long-term stimulus spending that retailers see topping $23.1 billion to support a fragile recovery from 23.5, when months of street protests and a coup brought Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy to a standstill.
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The nomination of a royal family member by pro-Thaksin forces was an audacious gambit, potentially undercutting Thaksin's ardently royalist foes, and setting up an election showdown with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led the 2014 coup and heads the military government.
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The military government has allocated 287 billion baht ($8.21 billion) for pension-related schemes in the current fiscal year and the amount is expected to rise to 698 billion baht by 2024, Kobsak Pootrakool, vice minister at the Prime Minister's Office, told reporters.
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The Rohingya—a Muslim minority who made up just 250 percent of Myanmar's population—have been seeking sanctuary in Bangladesh since they were stripped of Burmese citizenship in the 22010s and 80s by a military government focused on establishing racial and religious purity.
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The civil complaint said that from 1984 to 1989, Mr. Ali was the commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Somali National Army, stationed in or near the northern city of Gebiley, where it was allied with the military government under Maj. Gen.
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He knew the leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front, or F.I.S., and followed from afar their success in local elections and then the crackdown that followed as the military government imposed martial law, plunging Algeria into a decade of savage civil war.
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During 18 months of his reign so far, Vajiralongkorn, also known by the title King Rama X, has moved to consolidate the authority of the monarchy, including taking more direct control of the crown's vast wealth with the help of Thailand's military government.
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The current military government, which took power after a May 2014 coup following a decade of political conflict, has unveiled yet another draft constitution that allows it to keep extensive political powers during a transition period to follow a general election scheduled for mid-2017.
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"Meanwhile in Thailand there's an impasse at the moment because of uncertainties of the counting process and the role of the military government in that so I think Indonesia deserves credit for the way its built up a pretty resilient election system," he said.
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The move raises the prospect of further delay after a lack of clarity over the election outcome fueled concerns over alleged manipulation by the military government, while "democratic front" anti-junta parties say they have come under more scrutiny by the authorities since the vote.
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A timeline of Thailand's history enables a diachronic reading that relates developments in Chang's production to corresponding moments in time, such as his hiatus from painting triggered by the 1974 clashes between student-led protesters and the military government, during which his son went missing.
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Bolsonaro, a former army captain, rose to power praising the U.S.-backed military government that ran Brazil for two decades before a return to democracy in 1985, echoing Cold War rhetoric in his presidential campaign about the need to fight a continued communist threat.
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The budget for four projects to build embankments along canals has already been approved, and an extra 13 billion baht from the military government is being used to carve out giant underground tunnels, said Vallop Suwandee, chairman of an advisory group to the Bangkok governor.
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The military government might postpone to 2018 a general election scheduled for next year, and Thai stocks and the baht currency are likely to be volatile in the short term, the Eurasia Group of risk analysts said in a report issued before the announcement.
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Ma Ba Tha holds its nationwide congress in Yangon, a city of more than 5 million that has been a focus of foreign investment since a former military government ceded power in 2012, in two weeks and is expecting about 10,000 monks to attend.
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King Vajiralongkorn, 67, succeeded his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, in 2016 and has since consolidated the authority of the monarchy and the royal household with help from a military government that came to power in a 2014 coup led by then-army chief Prayuth.
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Mr. Erdogan has faulted Western nations for not condemning the coup firmly enough, but his real beef seems to be that they have expressed alarm over his use of the crisis to purge some 66,000 people from the military, government ministries, schools and universities.
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And over the past week, festering public anger compounded by nearly 73 years of frustration over corruption and economic mismanagement has grown into demonstrations so big and widespread that some say they could topple Mr. Bashir's military government, or at least seriously challenge its legitimacy.
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Fidel Castro and his younger brother Raul considered Fernandez a man they could always rely on and he served throughout the decades in various military, government and Communist Party posts, including adviser to the president, minister of education and president of the Olympic Committee.
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These include Nicaragua in 1990 when a unified and broad-based opposition defeated the Sandinista revolutionary government in internationally monitored elections, or Chile when the Left and the Center united to defeat the Pinochet military government and its Rightist allies, also in 1990 elections.
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"The detention and deportation of Joshua Wong are yet another indicator that Thailand's military government will use any available means to stifle political discourse in the country," Champa Patel, Amnesty International's senior research adviser for South East Asia and the Pacific, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Thailand's military government has tried to seek tighter censorship of social media from Facebook, Google and Japan-based instant messenger service LINE since it came to power in 2014 following a coup it said was necessary to restore peace to the country following months of unrest.
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The perception of the army as a northern institution, and the fact Mr Buhari is from the north (there has not been an Igbo head of state since the military government of Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi in 1966), has compounded many Igbos' feelings of alienation.
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But while fewer migrants appear to be braving hazardous journeys by sea, figures from immigration police on the land border show an increase in people smuggled from Myanmar since 2014, when Thailand's military government seized power and vowed to crack down on human smuggling and trafficking rings.
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It was Harris's lifetime of service — in the military, government, and as a citizen volunteer — that convinced him that our country needed national service not just to provide human capital to meet pressing community challenges, but to develop the public-spirited leaders we so badly need.
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The military government on Wednesday called off an event hosted by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) focusing on the as yet unsolved disappearance of a revolution plaque commemorating the end of absolute monarchy in 1932 - a subject on which the junta has largely evaded questions.
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Related: Thailand's Military Government Thinks John Oliver Is a Threat to Its Monarchy According to Brad Adams, Asia Director at HRW, the order leaves Thailand at a "pivotal point" that demands urgent intervention from the international community to prevent the rights situation in the country deteriorating further.
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In the 1990s, the military government abandoned its World Heritage bid because it feared its "really horrible" restoration work would face harsh scrutiny from international experts, said Pierre Pichard, a longtime consultant for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization who first visited Bagan in 1975.
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The military government that came to power after a 2014 coup has stepped up efforts to clean up Buddhism by arresting monks involved in corruption scandals and through the introduction of a bill that reduces the influence of Buddhism's Sangha Supreme Council - the governing body of Buddhist monks.
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Last year the New York Times reported that ministers with Egypt's military government requested access to Uber's internal tracking software, which could help it find and punish dissidents; Uber reportedly declined, though it's not clear what it would do were the new legislation to require it do so.
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But I was struck by something that predated Donald Trump in the party, and seems to have ramped up to top volume in this election cycle: the view that government can't get anything right, and that, with the exception of the military, government workers are either swindlers or suckers.
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For Sudan, public recognition of Israel signals to the U.S. that the transitional civilian-military government is moving beyond its designation as a state sponsor of terrorism — a pariah status it shares with Iran, North Korea and Syria that blocks the international community from tapping into its economy.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Around four hundred people gathered at a monument to democracy in the Thai capital on Saturday to urge the military government not to delay a national election planned later this year, in one of the biggest anti-junta demonstrations since the military took power in 2014.
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The military government has been anxious to head off potential confrontation with farmers but said in its first year in power that it also wanted to wean them off expensive populist schemes such as a rice scheme introduced by Yingluck which bought rice from farmers at above-market rates.
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Only two governments have completed their five-year terms in Pakistan's 10-year history, and Pakistan's has swung back and forth between military government and civilian democracy, with military rule resulting in repression and civilian rule in a lack of delivery on its promises and disappointment for Pakistanis.
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As the plane landed in Larnaca, on the southern coast of Cyprus, Mr. Mustafa made a series of incoherent demands, calling for the release of female prisoners by Egypt's military government and for the delivery of a letter to his former wife, who lives with their three children.
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In the last half-century, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and the Staff Officer for Archaeology of the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria (the military government that rules the West Bank outside of East Jerusalem) have conducted or licensed excavations at hundreds of sites in the West Bank.
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During the country's civil war, which lasted from 1960 to 1996, Domingo Caal helped organize a small group of Q'eqchi' farm laborers who pressed for their own land, maneuvering between leftist guerrillas and the military government, which waged a brutal war against many indigenous communities in the early 1980s.
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Egypt's Emirati-backed military government, which removed Mr. Morsi from power in July 2013, considered Al Jazeera a tool of Qatar and the Brotherhood, and Egyptian security forces had already raided the offices of Al Jazeera's Arabic language channels before the network hired Mr. Fahmy, in September 2013.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent 15 years under house arrest under the former military government, said last year that a victory by her party would put her "above the president," suggesting that the next president would be, if not largely ceremonial, a loyalist essentially governing on her behalf.
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"Press freedom in Myanmar hasn't gotten any better than it was under the military government," Mr. Khin Mg Zaw said, referring to the junta that ruled the country for decades before Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's party came to power in 2016 after winning a landslide election victory the year before.
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Good-hearted people who once considered Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi a hero for resistance to the nation's military government that earned her a Nobel Peace Prize, charitably interpret her failure to denounce genocide as a necessary accommodation to generals who still retain absolute control over security and the civil service.
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In a year that saw the Thai military government grapple with an outbreak of the deadly flu-like MERS virus as well as the bombing at a major shrine, Chinese tourists helped turn Bangkok into the region's most-visited destination in 2015, according to the first-ever MasterCard Asia Pacific Destinations Index published on Wednesday.
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Through ASU's newly established Arizona State University Research Enterprise, created to advance scalable solutions for applied, classified and midrange technology-level challenges, ASU has begun developing a dense urban area curriculum that will allow military, government, law enforcement, and many others to study the social, political, economic, and national security issues specific to cities.
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