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<title><![CDATA[Illegal Burmese migrants: caught between hiding or becoming legal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[MANY OF the estimated 2 million Burmese migrants currently living in Thailand can remember the mass deportation a decade ago. With the threat of another mass expulsion looming, migrant workers are exploring their options and hoping to avoid the panic, the desperation and the dangers of November 1999.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 8:26:15</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thai economic growth to be led by exports once again]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[THAILAND'S economic recovery next year will likely be export-driven, rather than consumer-driven as earlier expected - thanks to the recovering US, European and Japanese economies following the 2008 Lehman Brothers crisis.
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 8:25:59</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CSR - it's a joint effort]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dr Pipat Yodprudtikan explains how stakeholders need to tackle the four main issues |of perception, incentives, factual and timely communications as well as pursuing sectoral initiatives to make the corporate social responsibility movement viable in Thailand]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 8:20:58</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why is the South so important to Sonthi?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Using the region as a political platform raises questions as does his readiness to work with Pheu Thai, whose de facto chief he had deposed]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 8:25:39</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Are Thaksin's red shirts just victims of big lies?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Some time back, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra told his devout red shirts during a phone-in that the Malaysian Special Branch had sent 20 cops to guard him during his stopover in Kuala Lumpur “because they love me“. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 8:26:21</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Too many generals with time on their hands]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Major General Khattiya Sawatdiphol appears remarkably dynamic for someone supposedly consigned to an “inactive“ post, hopping over border fences and, not so long ago, performing as a fitness and aerobics specialist. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 8:25:41</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Urban centres lack community spirit]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Gated communities, condos and hectic lifestyles cause city dwellers to disconnect from each other
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 7:17:40</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Promises are easy to make but harder to keep]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[THE Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Summit in Singapore last week succeeded in becoming an extension of the G-20. It embraced a new economic paradigm based on re-balancing global growth, inclusiveness of prosperity and sustainable growth. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 7:39:10</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How much will a better ranking cost our taxpayers?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK'S Suvarnabhumi Airport may soon be put in the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest number of signs - not only hung and posted ones, but also those held by airport staff - confusing travellers departing and arriving in our country. ]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/11/20/opinion/opinion_30116952.php]]></link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 7:03:53</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama's Shanghai 'town-hall' meet: A big non-event]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I WAS terribly disappointed. I stayed glued to CNN and the White House's website that was live-streaming President Barack Obama's 'town-hall' meeting with young Chinese people in Shanghai on Monday. There was not one single exciting or illuminating question from the audience.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/11/19/opinion/opinion_30116883.php]]></link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 8:04:36</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is this man really fit to be called a general?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Re: “Seh Daeng 'sneaked' into Cambodia to see Thaksin“, November 17.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 4:16:58</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More important things to worry about than a low bow]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["IT WAS the most remarkable picture, I have ever seen," said a former senior White House officer with a good-natured chuckle. "It must have been the angle."]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/11/19/opinion/opinion_30116881.php]]></link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 8:26:19</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ineptitude puts troops in harm's way]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Shootout in the South this week indicates that Thai security forces are not learning from previous hard lessons
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/11/19/opinion/opinion_30116879.php]]></link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 0:56:43</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Now, can Abhisit live without Hun Sen?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[AS FAR as Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is concerned, the good news is that Hun Sen and Thaksin Shinawatra have been a big help in making the past few days arguably the Democrat leader's best spell at the country's helm. The bad news is, this politically lucrative saga with Cambodia cannot last forever.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/11/18/opinion/opinion_30116856.php]]></link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 6:40:25</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Improve politics, improve your living standard]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Re: “Average Joe has no interest in politics“, Letters, November 17.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 5:55:42</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Review of health schemes needed to avoid confusion]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The National Health Commission will ask the government to revise health insurance and welfare schemes after finding inequities and rising costs in the main schemes. It also found that the medical benefit scheme for civil servants has gone over-budget by a huge amount. 
There are three main health schemes: One covering government employees and their families; a social security scheme covering formal sector employees; and the universal health scheme for millions of informal workers and families without health insurance.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 7:14:39</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't believe everything you hear]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New disaster movie has a resonance with gutter politics, rumour-mongering and misinformation]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 8:05:57</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Politics Not For Manny]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When I saw Manny Pacquiao belting out a famous karaoke song “Sometimes When We Touch“ on a US talk show, I couldn't help but admire the Filipino boxer's confidence. Even when he pronounced the word “touch“ as “tats“ - which would give a heart attack to the high-brow Manila elite - the man's confidence was something. He has earned this after years of fame as the so-called world's greatest “pound-for-pound“ boxer. ]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/11/18/opinion/opinion_30116800.php]]></link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 8:03:53</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Still a long battle ahead in the quest for peace in the South]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It's been hard enough for Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to convince the security and intelligence community that Thailand needed to talk to the enemy - but then along came Chavalit Yongchaiyudh with his bright ideas.
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 6:42:40</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In many ways Thaksin, Hun Sen are political clones]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[IF fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra is predictable in any way, it is that he never admits any wrongdoing. Call it a sense of survival or deniability. It just does not make any difference. In his own view, he is a man who does no wrong. 
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/11/17/opinion/opinion_30116712.php]]></link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 6:57:32</pubDate>
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