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Thai Border on Guard for Drugs From Myanmar

FANG, Thailand The heroin and methamphetamine traffickers carry assault weapons and walk briskly through the night, crossing the border in small groups and traveling down a spider’s web of footpaths and dirt roads. So says Ja Saw, a wiry man in his 20s ...

From THOMAS FULLER, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Thailand Recalls Ambassador to Cambodia Over Thaksin Job

BANGKOK The Thai government announced Thursday that it was recalling its ambassador to Cambodia to protest the appointment of a former Thai prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, to a high-profile position, further straining relations between the ...

From THOMAS FULLER, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thaksin Shinawatra,  Hun Sen

In rare talk, US envoy meets with Suu Kyi

BANGKOK - A senior American diplomat who completed a rare visit to Myanmar yesterday said that Washington would improve relations with the nation on the condition that its military government embraced reconciliation with Myanmar’s democratic opposition. ...

From THOMAS FULLER, Boston Globe,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Aung San Suu Kyi,  National League,  Barack Obama,  European Union

Asean Summit Turns to Widening Free Trade

CHA-AM, THAILAND — After a year of uncertain economic prospects, a sense of cautious optimism appeared to have returned to Asia’s leaders here over the weekend, as they returned to the business of increasing trade within the region, lowering tariffs ...

From THOMAS FULLER, International Herald Tribune,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  Kasit Piromya,  Abhisit Vejjajiva,  Yukio Hatoyama (politician),  ASEAN Football Federation

World Briefing | Asia: Thailand: Rights Panel Formed

Southeast Asian governments meeting in Thailand inaugurated their first human rights commission on Friday in what they hailed as a milestone for a region. The commission’s job will be to promote human rights, but it will have no power to investigate ...

From THOMAS FULLER, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Abhisit Vejjajiva

Absenteeism and Rancor at Southeast Asian Summit

CHA-AM, Thailand Poor attendance by regional leaders marred the opening of a summit meeting on Friday as internal squabbling undermined the already shaky unity of the grouping, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The leaders of some of the ...

From THOMAS FULLER, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hun Sen,  Thaksin Shinawatra,  Abhisit Vejjajiva

Burmese Dissident Leader Meets Western Diplomats

BANGKOK Myanmar’s military government allowed Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the country’s beleaguered democracy movement, to hold a rare meeting with foreign diplomats on Friday as part of what appears to be early but tentative signs of a détente ...

From THOMAS FULLER, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  Kurt Campbell

Laos Stumbles on Path to Sporting Glory

VIENTIANE, LAOS — Lillehammer, Albertville, Lake Placid. Major sports events have a way of putting obscure places on the map. This was the hope harbored by Laos’s Communist leaders when they offered Vientiane, the capital, as the host of the Southeast ...

From THOMAS FULLER, International Herald Tribune,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: World Bank

Myanmar Drug Trade Surges Along Thai Border

DOI CHANG MOOB, THAILAND — For more than half a century heroin has been carried over the jungle-shrouded hills here, the first leg of a journey that delivers the drugs to cities as far off as Sydney and Vancouver, Canada. But anti-narcotics officials ...

From THOMAS FULLER, The New York Times,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Pamela Brown

Fuller Predicts Patriots Will Lose to Falcons

Before the NFL picks for Week 3, a few notes from the New England loss to the New York Jets last week: 1. Tons of holding penalties. Four calls for delay of game, including two in a row. No chemistry between the quarterback and receivers. Dropped ...

From THOMAS FULLER, The Exception,  26 Sep 2009

Related Topics: New England Patriots,  Tom Brady,  New York Jets,  NFL,  Oakland Raiders

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