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7 Cambodians killed in Thai road accident

eTaiwan News - Friday 25th April, 2014

Thai land.Police Col. Somneuk Haanta said Friday the pickup truck's tire burst before it hit the tree and flipped over into a ditch in Nong Yai district in Chonburi province.He says seven ...

General Sources - Friday 25th April, 2014

Vientiane - Communist Laos will need to borrow an estimated 4.5trillion kip (566 million dollars) this fiscal year to address its ballooning budget deficit, a state media report said ...

General Sources - Friday 25th April, 2014

Twenty-three Cambodian activists and workers arrested during a deadly crackdown on a garment industry strike in January went on trial Friday despite international appeals for their ...

The Nation - Friday 25th April, 2014

The attack happened at 9 pm and the grenade landed on the ground between two buildings, causing a hole. The bomb fragments also hit the buildings. Police suspected the grenade was fired from a ...

The Nation - Friday 25th April, 2014

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A campaign by Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva to find a solution to the country's political deadlock was generally welcomed yesterday although anti-government leader Suthep Thaugsuban appeared to shun his move.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra described Abhisit's effort as a "good beginning" to allow the country to get out of the ongoing impasse and move forward. She said that she would have to study his proposal in detail.

"We should start by finding a common point and then go towards that direction," the prime minister said. "It may take some time, but I believe that it's better than turning our backs to each other."

Yingluck called on Abhisit to discuss his plan with Suthep, secretary-general of the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC).

Election commissioner Som-chai Srisuthiyakorn said Abhisit's effort to find a solution to the political crisis was a "good approach".

Abhisit on Thursday unveiled his plan to hold talks with some prominent figures and parties to find a solution.

Yesterday, he met Justice Ministry permanent secretary Kittipong Kittayarak and other members of the Reform Now Network.

He is scheduled to meet with Armed Forces Supreme Commander General Tanasak Patima-pragorn on Monday, and Election Commissioners on Tuesday.

Abhisit said that if did not accomplish his mission in 10 days, he would consider it a failure. Yingluck and Suthep would be the last people he planned to meet.

Suthep rebuffed any effort to involve him in the talks. He said he would listen to no one except the "great masses of people" who were calling for national reforms before the next election.

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Suthep shuns Abhisit move

FILE - Rodney Tom, a Democrat in the Washington State Senate, speaks in a capitol press conference Dec. 10, 2012. A number of senate republicans including Mark Schoesler (left) and two democrats (Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon, second from left) announced the creation of a new majority coalition, depriving the Democratic Caucus a ruling majority. Other republicans present include Ann Rivers (right). (Peter Haley / Staff photographer)

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Democratic state Sen. Tim Sheldon will soon find out what voters in his independent-minded 35th District think of his move last year to join Republicans and one other Democrat to seize control of the state Senate.

The longtime maverick from Mason County who helped form the Majority Coalition Caucus has already drawn challengers from both major parties. They include Democrat Irene Bowling, a music teacher from Bremerton, and self-described libertarian Republican Travis Couture, a Navy veteran from Belfair.

Both challengers are new to electoral politics and say the incumbents 24 years in the Legislature is enough. Neither is impressed that Sheldon joined a coalition that produced bipartisan budgets, which in Bowlings view also led to blockage of Democratic priorities.

Left high-centered this year were Gov. Jay Inslees proposed $200 million boost in investments in K-12 schools to answer a state Supreme Court ruling; proposals to close as many as seven tax breaks, including one for oil refineries; and legislation that would have required coverage of abortion in health insurance plans that cover pregnancy.

The Senate needs help from Democrats. The transportation budget wasnt passed, the education budget wasnt passed, the capital budget wasnt passed, Bowling said after holding a kickoff event near Olympia last weekend.

Sheldon said he thinks voters like his approach.

My opponent may criticize the coalition, but we passed budgets by 44-to-4 and 48-to-1 in the Senate. Thats amazing, Sheldon said. I think Ill do well because the voters know me and I try to represent everyone.

Couture, who works at the naval shipyard at Bangor in Kitsap County, said Sheldon and the Republican-dominated majority coalition didnt put up enough of a fight against expanding Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2013.

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Swing Democrat faces challenges from both sides

LANSING, MI -- Detroit civil rights attorney Godfrey Dillard is running for Michigan Attorney General.

Dillard announced his candidacy Thursday afternoon, setting up a showdown with fellow Democrat Mark Totten at the party's nominating convention in August.

The nominee would take on Republican incumbent Attorney General Bill Schuette in November.

Totten announced his candidacy back in June of 2013 and has spent nearly a year on the campaign trail, but Dillard's experience and name recognition in Southeast Michigan make him an instant contender for the nomination.

Dillard, speaking with MLive on Thursday, said he was inspired to enter the race because of Schuette's positions on various cultural and social issues. The attorney general should have fought parts of the state's emergency manager law, Dillard argued, but not challenged federal rulings striking down same-sex marriage and juvenile lifer laws.

"We need a check and balance on a Republican-dominated Legislature, governor and even the state Supreme Court," Dillard said. "We need an attorney general that's going to argue the law without partisanship."

Dillard, 65, is a Detroit native with a law degree from the University of Michigan, which he later represented in a high-profile affirmative action admission case. He worked for the Foreign Service during the Carter and Reagan administrations, tried to run for Congress in 2012 and currently teaches law at Wayne State University.

Totten is a law professor at Michigan State University who previously served as a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office in West Michigan, a clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thomas Griffith and as a staff attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Appellate Staff.

"Dillard has some very good name recognition in a a critical base for Dems, which gives him a built in advantage, but Mark Totten has been working hard and doing the rubber chicken circuit for the past year," said Lansing-based political consultant TJ Bucholz.

"Either one of them is going to have an uphill battle against Schuette. Within the Republican Party, he's one of the few elected officials who has some successful crossover with the establishment and tea party figures."

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Democrat Godfrey Dillard announces run for Michigan Attorney General

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