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Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said yesterday that a joint World Heritage listing of Preah Vihear and its adjacent compound - claimed by both Thailand and Cambodia - was the "best and smoothest path to take" to end conflict over Cambodia's controversial management plan for the ancient Khmer temple. Abhisit and Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya also disputed Phnom Penh's claims of victory following a decision by Unesco's World Heritage Committee to defer a review of Cambodia's management plan until its mee  

A conservation group yesterday threatened to lodge a complaint with the Administrative Court if the government fails to put the brakes on petroleum exploration and drilling in the Gulf of Thailand by Thursday. Oil operations were threatening not just the ecological system but also tourism in popular destinations like Koh Samui and the Pha-ngan islands, the network said. Thousands of people yesterday lined along a road around Samui to show their opposition to the government's awarding a concession for  

The bomb, which went off at about 1.30am, was planted in a garbage pile - a method similar to a bomb attack near Big C Rajdamri last Sunday. But this time it was a Chinese-made hand grenade that was used, while the Big C bomb attack relied on a US-made M67 grenade. The unnamed victim, who is about 35-40 years old, was seriously wounded.  

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva arrived in Phuket yesterday evening ahead of the two-day Democrat Party "Crisis Seminar", which got underway at the Merlin Beach Resort at Tri Trang Beach this morning. During his opening address, PM Abhisit reminded party members to "perform our duty with efficiency and in accordance with the law and the principles the spirit of the law upholds, and the facts – and then we can move forward." Doing their (party members') jobs "as well as they can and with loyalty is go  

The Democrat-led coalition government will stay in power until next April as several factors support Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to continue running the country, Puea Thai MPs chairman Chalerm Yubamrung said on Saturday. "The prime minister would not dissolve House of Representatives and call for fresh general election before the end of this year as speculated by various parties. "There was a projection that Mr Abhisit would dissolve the lower House after the 2011 fiscal budget bill gets approval  

There remained global interest in Thailand's political revelations with the latest creation of a webpage displaying the state of emergency nationwide. The Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Friday launched a new webpage featuring a map showing provinces where the emergency remains in effect. The webpage can be accessed at: http://thailand.ahrchk.net/emergency2010/.  

China said Friday it opposed tough new sanctions imposed by the European Union on Iran over its contested nuclear programme, again calling for more talks to resolve the standoff. "China disapproves of the unilateral sanctions put in place by the EU against Iran," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a statement. "We hope the relevant parties will adhere to diplomatic means on the issue, and properly resolve the issue through talks and negotiation," she said.  

Thailand's premier warned Friday of possible further bomb attacks in Bangkok after a grenade blast left one man seriously hurt, days after a deadly explosion at a bus stop. The grenade, which was in a plastic bag, exploded before dawn on a street in the capital, leaving a rubbish scavenger in critical condition with shrapnel in his head, police and hospital officials said. "It's likely that the bomb was aimed at inciting unrest," Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told reporters.  

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has warned of more possible bomb attacks, after a grenade exploded on Friday on a street in central Bangkok, leaving one person seriously hurt. The grenade, which was in a plastic bag, exploded before dawn in Rangnam road near a duty-free shopping centre. A Thai man in his 30s who was scavenging for scrap was in critical condition with shrapnel in his head, police and hospital officials said.