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All of a sudden, the name of a faraway destination that most Thais are not familiar with - let alone have made a visit to - has hit the public spotlight. The place is Fiji, a country of more than 300 islands in the South Pacific, midway between Tahiti and Australia.

NUKU'ALOFA : Ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra flew to the Pacific islands this week, a Tongan government official says.

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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Bangkok emerged from an overnight curfew on Thursday after the Thai capital was plunged into a day of rioting and fires in the aftermath of military action to disperse a camp of anti-government protesters.

Honestly, do you think Prime Minister Abhisit Vejajjiva and his Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya really want to hunt down former prime minister-turned-fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra and bring him home? Do you think they seriously want to push for the conclusion of the extradition treaty between Thailand and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where Thaksin has spent most of his time, so that he could be ...

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I know Barack Hussein Obama is famous, but I never realised he's that famous until I saw some of my childhood friends sipping from a bottle of imported Fiji water and doing something quite bizarre - debating whether the US president deserves to be the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

NUKU'ALOFA : Ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra flew to the Pacific islands this week, a Tongan government official says.

Fiji's High Court on Thursday rejected a legal challenge by the former prime minister that his dismissal in a military coup in 2006 was illegal.

peninsula hotel in bangkok You have a choice between an all-expense paid trip to Fiji on business class to interview golfer Vijay Singh only days after he set a US PGA Tour record OR cover the early rounds of the Malaysian Open badminton tournament. What would any normal person do? Unfortunately, journalists are far from normal - in the hours they work, the way they write and their perspective on who is a star and who is not. That?s why sports journalists will tell you it?s not about the n

Thailand has been rocked by both political instability following a military coup last ... Cyclone over Fiji causing landslides

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