June 2006 in Southeast Asia

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This page deals with events that took place in or are of interest to Southeast Asia and/or events that involved its citizens.

[edit] 30 June 2006 (Friday)

  • Indonesia Indonesian police are investigating the editor of Playboy Indonesia and two models whose pictures appeared in the magazine's first edition for violating indecency laws. (Reuters)

[edit] 29 June 2006 (Thursday)

  • Cambodia New Brazilian ambassador to Cambodia H.E Edgard Telles Ribeiro meets Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni. (TVK)

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  • Cambodia The World Bank Group says it has found evidence of corruption on an additional four development projects in Cambodia. This makes for a total of seven suspect projects, involving 43 contracts worth US$11.9 million. (AP)
  • Laos Thailand Laos' bid to turn itself into the the "battery of the region" is well under way with the building of the US$1.25 billion Nam Theun II dam. It is the first dam backed by the World Bank Group since the mid-1990s and will eventually feed a power-hungry Thailand. It could net the Lao government $2 billion in its first 25 years of use. (IHT) (Reuters)
  • Singapore The continuing Singapore police investigation of a blogger who posted cartoons mocking Jesus Christ draws fire from Reporters Without Borders. (AFP)
  • Thailand Laos Thailand's biggest sugar exporter, Mitr Phol Sugar, announces it will spend 900 million baht over the next two years on a sugarcane plantation in Laos to boost its production amid a crop shortage in Thailand. (Business Day).

[edit] 22 June 2006 (Thursday)

  • Myanmar French authorities say oil company Total S.A. has been cleared of charges it used forced labour in Myanmar after an out-of-court settlement caused the prosecution's two-year-old case to collapse. (AFP)

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  • Thailand Royalty from 24 nations take part in a banquet at the Grand Palace as part of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 60th Anniversary Celebrations. It is the first official function in the new Rama IX Throne Hall, an extension of the Chakri Throne Hall built by King Chulalongkorn. (TNA)
  • Philippines A group calling itself Taong Bayan at Kawal, or Masses and Soldiers, claims for an early-morning bomb blast at a police headquarters in Manila, as well as earlier blasts at Manila office building on June 6, an explosion outside the home of an ally of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo last week and two simultaneous bomb blasts in police stations on June 11. The group denies it was behind a bombing in Lipa City that injured nine people on June 11. (AFP)
  • Cambodia Cambodia's government demands the World Bank Group give "detailed reason and evidence" about why it suspended three development projects amid allegations of fraud and corruption and asked that Cambodia return US$1.7 million. (AP)

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  • East Timor Australian peacekeeping troops fire teargas on rampaging gangs in Dili, as the East Timor crisis continues. Meanwhile, Parliament met, and Foreign Minister José Ramos Horta "had a good talk" with rebel commanders. (AFP) (AP)
  • Myanmar Myanmar's military government tells Yangon residents to hang family photos in their homes and to send copies to local authorities. Every family in the capital is required to keep a list of its members, and local officials sometimes visit their homes at night to make random checks to see that the inhabitants tally with official lists. It is thought that the measure is to beef up security in the wake of a deadly bombing campaign in Yangon, which began in May 2005. (The Irrawaddy)
  • Myanmar Myanmar's foreign trade hits 5.5 billion USD in fiscal year 2005-06, a record high in 17 years since 1989 when the country began to move to the market-oriented economy. (Shanghai Daily)
  • Thailand The National Reconciliation Commission, which has been investigating the South Thailand insurgency for the past year, issues its report, which calls for an "unarmed army", among other measures. The NRC's head, former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun, says the government needs to focus on reconciliation and curbing abuses by government security forces in the three Muslim-majority provinces near the Malaysian border. Other measures would be recognition of the Yawi dialect spoken in the region as an official language and setting up a powerful agency to find solutions.(Reuters) (The Nation)
  • Myanmar Thailand The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand halts its feasibility survey for a dam on the Salween River in Myanmar after a surveyor died from injuries after he stepped on a land mine. EGAT says its team has been pulled out of the area, which has seen major military offensives by the State Peace and Development Council in Kayin State. (ThaiDay)
  • Thailand Thailand's Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department concludes that 83 people died in flooding in five northern provinces: 71 in Uttaradit, seven in Sukhothai and five in Phrae. Thirty-three people are still missing, a total of 674 houses have been damaged and 310,000 people affected. (The Nation)
  • Thailand Environmental activists blockade trucks hauling eight young Asian elephants destined for Taronga Zoo in Sydney. The animals had been quarantined in Kanchanaburi Province for 18 months and were scheduled to be flown to Australia. (The Nation)
  • Thailand Laos 231 Hmong refugees fleeing Laos are detained by police in Amphoe Khao Kho, Phetchabun Province for illegal entry into Thailand. The Hmong are seeking asylum at the province's Ban Huay Nam Khao, where about 6,500 ethnic Hmong are being sheltered, but the Thai military refused to allow them to stay. Most of the Hmong claim they fought against the communists in the Secret War. (The Nation)

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  • Indonesia The death toll in the Java earthquake rises to 6,234. More than 600,000 are estimated to have been displaced by the quake. United Nations officials say they fear help will come too late for victims still awaiting medical care in overwhelmed hospitals and villagers decry the lack of aid. (IHT) (AP)
  • Malaysia A retaining wall built on a hillslope collapses in Selangor, Malaysia. 160 people are left homeless while rescue efforts are underway to find those that are trapped. (New Straits Times)
  • Thailand People's Republic of China President Hu Jintao sends a message of blessing to the Thai monarch on the 60th anniversary later this month of his accession to the throne. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, on behalf of the Chinese government, pledges to provide aid to Thailand to help people effected by floods in the North if needed. (TNA)
  • Thailand South Thailand insurgency: Police in Narathiwat arrests another three suspects allegedly involved in abducting and assaulting two female teachers at Gujinluepa School in Amphoe Ra-ngae nearly two weeks ago. (TNA)


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