Thailand Live Saturday 18 Feb 2012

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PM announces women's development fund aims to push econ growth/TAN_Network

PM laments via FB how politicians take advantage of women, possibly alluding to criticisms about her personal meeting at Four Seasons Hotel/TAN_Network

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Thai opposition leader Abhisit meets with Aung San Suu Kyi

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AFP: Dozens injured by Thai hotel pool chlorine leak

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Iranian who lost his legs from his own bomb at Sukhumvit is recovering, doctors removed from ventilator but kept under close watch /MCOT

Satun police detain 70 Rohingyas fr Myanmar for illegal entry, looking for work in Malaysia, Indonesia but stranded in La-ngu district /MCOT

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RT @mpoppel: Dutch government statement re: Friso

RT @mpoppel: Dutch government says there has been no change in the condition of Friso overnight

RT @mpoppel: Dutch government: Friso's life is still at risk, but he was stable throughout the night

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Thai PM to visit Malaysia on Monday

BANGKOK, Feb 18 -- Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will visit Malaysia on Monday, the introductory trip to the last remaining members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) since she took office in August of last year.

The visit was aimed at strengthening bilateral relations between the two neighbouring countries, which share some 650 kilometers of border.

The trip was postponed from October of last year due to the flood crisis in Thailand.

The Thai premier would take this opportunity to affirm close ties between Thailand and Malaysia along with showing Thailand's readiness to cooperate with Malaysia at a bilateral level and under the ASEAN framework.

During the one day visit, Ms Yingluck was scheduled to meet her Malaysian counterpart Najib Tun Razak to discuss bilateral issues including a plan to revive the existing cooperation mechanism as Thailand would propose to host the Thai Malaysia Joint Commission (JC), Joint Development Strategy for Border Areas (JDS) during the first half of 2012 to lay groundwork for the 5th annual summit meeting between Thai and Malaysian leaders which Malaysia was expected to host.

Thailand and Malaysia would also seek close cooperation in border security including drug trafficking, human trafficking and arms smuggling.

Cooperation under the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand – Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) and economic strategic development for ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was also included in the agenda.

Ms Yingluck would also invite the Malaysian leader to attend the 21st World Economic Forum on East Asia that would be held in Thailand during May 30-June 1. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2012-02-18

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