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Asia Times nline – Dec 25, 2007
Yet despite successfully holding new general elections where over 70% of eligible voters cast their ballots the politically plagued country is most likely primed for more instability in the year ahead. The People’s Power Party (PPP) the reincarnation of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s once dominant and later dissolved Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party easily won Sunday’s highly. phpAds_used) document… It’s still unclear if the meeting actually took place but the allegation represents the latest PPP complaint that the military and Prem were working behind the scenes to undermine the pro-Thaksin party. What is certain is that the negotiations and horse-trading towards forming the next government have already begun in earnest. The local press reported that Samak had planned to meet with potential coalition partners on Monday at a Bangkok hotel but that the meeting was for undisclosed reasons cancelled. The Chat Thai party former prime minister Banharn Silapa-archa has been mum on his intentions saying only that his party would remain joined with Pua Pandin either in government or in the opposition. It still seems more likely that Chat Thai which previously stood in opposition to the TRT-led government and Pua Pandin which includes a large number of former TRT party members and senior advisors who for various reasons decided to break away from Thaksin will opt to join forces with the Democrats. There are already murmurs of a potential grand bargain whereby Banharn would emerge as a compromise prime minister inside a four- or five-party coalition while the Democrats controlled the major economic and finance portfolios and Abhisit assumed the post of parliament speaker rather than premier. The three smaller parties which won seats Ruam Jai Thai Chat Pattana with 11 Matchima Tippitai with seven and Pracharaj with four seats could hypothetically in combination give the PPP the numbers needed to get over the 241 seat majority hump – but the latter two parties are known to be strongly anti-Thaksin and appeared at least on the hustings predisposed against joining with the PPP.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Dec 25, 2007
National Tourism Year in Thai Nguyen Province: This year Thai Nguyen Province welcomed 1. 02 million visitors including 25000 foreign tourists 120% over its year target. Vietnam welcomed its 4th million foreign visitor: n December 6 the 4th million foreign tourist arrived in Vietnam on a Vietnam Airlines Bangkok-Hanoi flight. He was an American named David Magidson… The festival gathered over 100 flower exporters and traders from 24 provinces and cities of Vietnam and seven other flower exporting countries including Holland South Korea Japan Thailand Belgium Denmark and China. A boom of foreign-invested projects in tourism: In the January ? ctober period there were 41 foreign-invested hotel projects totaling US$1. 773 billion in registered capital up 17. 2% compared to the same period 2006. From 1998 to ctober 2007 Vietnam welcomed 229 foreign-invested tourism projects with total capital of $6.

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International Herald Tribune – Dec 25, 2007
Nobuto Ikehara Japan 12 for Sidorenko's WBA bantamweight title. 11 At Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood Fla. (ESPN2) Edison Miranda Puerto Rico vs. David Banks Portland regon 10 super middleweights; Jean Pascal Canada vs. mar Pittman Philadelphia 10 super middleweights… 29 At Bangkok: Daisuke Naito Japan vs. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam Thailand fourth fight 12 for Naito's WBC flyweight title. 1 At Monroeville Pa. (ESPN2) Monte Meza Clay Rankin Pa.

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