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Thailand May Raise Rate as Asia Grapples Inflation, Inflows
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 Thailand may raise borrowing costs for the sixth time in less than a
year as Asia strives to damp inflation stoked by surging commodity prices and capital inflows.April 19.04.11
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Thailand New Year Celebrations Draw Burmese Exiles
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 New year is celebrated in some countries in Asia with a water
festival - known as Pi Mai in Laos, Thing yan in Burma and Songkran in Thailand. Video journalist Pros Laput follows VOA Burmese Service reporter Kyaw Kyaw Thein in Chiang Mai,
Thailand as he reports and visits exiled friends and family from Burma.April 19.04.11
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Thailand a beautiful, amazing country
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 This week, I have been in Thailand. Whether it is good food,
gentle people or beautiful countryside, you will find it in this country that is about the size of Wyoming.April 19.04.11
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Car bomb kills 1, injures 25 in southern Thailand
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 PATTANI, Thailand — Police say suspected Muslim
insurgents have set off a car bomb that killed one soldier and wounded 25 people in restive southern Thailand.April 19.04.11
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Chromalox Opens New Sales Office in Thailand
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 Chromalox , a leading manufacturer of electric heat and
control products, today announced the opening of a new sales office in Chon Buri, Thailand.April 19.04.11
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Will Thailand Send 140,000 Refugees Back to Burma?
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 More than 140,000 refugees will be forced back to war-torn Burma
unless Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva shows a rare bit of backbone in dealing with his country's increasingly powerful security forces April 19.04.11
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Thailand to shut down refugee camps holding over 100,000 Burmese
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 BANGKOK, THAILAND : The government of Thailand on Monday announced that it is planning on shutting down all
refugee camps along its western border, where over 100,000 Burma (Myanmar) refugees are housed, officials said.April 19.04.11
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THAILAND-MYANMAR: Concern over refugee camp closure plans
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 BANGKOK, April 2011 (IRIN) - Aid agencies in Thailand are
concerned about a government plan to close a string of Burmese refugee camps along its western border.
According to the Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC), a
group of INGOs operating along the 1,800km-long border, about 142,000 Burmese refugees live in nine government-run camps.April 19.04.11
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Council on Foreign Relations: Thailand to Myanmar refugees: drop dead – Joshua
Kurlantzick
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 According to reports by AFP and other news agencies,
Thailand’s National Security Council head, Tawin Pleansri, told reporters after a meeting of the council that Thailand wants to close the refugee camps for over 100,000 Burmese
refugees, who have fled the country over the past twenty years. Most of the Burmese refugees live in camps on the western Thailand-Burma border; their housing is basic, but it is
better than living in eastern and northeastern Burma, where they are prey to regular campaigns of attacks and even mass rape by the Burmese military, and
retribution attacks by armed ethnic militia groups. In one comprehensive report, a group focusing on Chin State in Burma documented the use of rape as a weapon of war by the Burmese military.
April 19.04.11
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Digiplay: Thai - UK Digital Festival
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 The Thailand Creative Design Center (TCDC) is currently
hosting Digiplay Thai-UK Digital Festival, a collaborative exhibition between TCDC and the British Council, which continues through May 22.
Focused on the Thai and British video game and animation sectors, the event comprises three main sections, covering the history and development of video games and consoles,
animation, and the development of these important industries in Thailand and the UK.April 19.04.11
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