Hmong refugees at risk of humanitarian crisis - MSF withdraws

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors without Borders as they are otherwise known, runs the risk of creating a humanitarian crisis if it goes ahead with plans to withdraw from a Hmong refugee camp in Northern Thailand in protest at the Thai governments treatment of...
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created by photo_journ | 26 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago
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US demands royalties on influenza A(H1N1) Mexican swine flu vacci

An intergovernmental meeting of the World Health Organisation (WHO), has failed to reach an agreement on sharing influenza virus research material and access to vaccines, with the US placing profits ahead of the threat of wide-scale, world-wide deaths from the current...
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created by photo_journ | 27 wks ago
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A red shirt supporter at the Sanam Luang rally
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Red shirts defiant as “third hand” blamed for Thailand riots

Red shirts defiant as “third hand” blamed for Thailand riots and assassination attempt: Thai tourism plummetsLess than 24-hours after Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva removed the state of emergency...
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created by photo_journ | 30 wks ago
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Red shirt supporters gather in Sanam Luang | Photo 02
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Rumours abound as Thailand extends emergency decree

One week after Thai soldiers clashed with rioting pro-democracy “red shirt” protesters on the streets of Bangkok the country is still governed under the state of emergency decree imposed by Thailand Prime...
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created by photo_journ | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago
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Monk - I saw Thai army shoot monk and people at Din Daeng
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Monk - I saw Thai army shoot monk and people at Din Daeng

A Bangkok monk says claims by the Thailand government that the army only fired blanks at red-shirted pro-democracy supporters at Din Daeng last Monday are not true and that those shot include a Buddhist monk.The...
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created by photo_journ | 31 wks ago
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Thailand Prime Minister a dead man walking as Asean leaders flee

The ongoing political protests in Thailand and the hasty cancelation of the 14th Asean economic summit that saw 14 heads of state hurriedly evacuated from a Pattaya hotel rooftop by helicopter will have a long-lasting affect on the Thailand.After only four months in office...
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created by photo_journ | 31 wks ago
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A red shirt pro-democracy protester shows what she wants.
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Thailand political unrest continues as hundreds of thousands rall

Less than five months after yellow-shirted anti-government protesters seized and closed Bangkok’s two airports stranding hundreds of thousands of international tourists, the country is headed towards further...
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created by photo_journ | 32 wks ago
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Thailand on the edge ahead of mass pro-democracy rally

Tonight Thailand sits on the edge. After weeks of small-scale pro-democracy rallies throughout the country, a mass march and the surrounding of Government House by red-shirted pro-democracy protesters, and nightly video calls from deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra,...
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created by photo_journ | 32 wks ago
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