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...protesters, known as the Red Shirts for the color they wear, were supporters of fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup and has fled the country rather than serve a prison term on a corruption conviction. His opponents include the current Democrat-led government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, the military, a rival group of protesters known as the Yellow Shirts and, according to some, Thailand's monarchy. Thaksin's followers are comprised largely of the rural poor, and so it was easy to dismiss, as many commentators did, the bloody curse...
...that the recession is receding, on-campus recruiting has regained some of the banks and consulting firms that fled last year. The total number of interviews conducted through the program increased by 13 percent from last year, with an additional 42 job positions posted and 17 more companies visiting...
...authored the 2006 book “What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution,” which examines the immigration experiences of a group of refugees born between...
...were no safeguards to keep corrupt officials from siphoning off the funds, and because much of the region has been off-limits to aid workers due to militancy, only a tenth of that amount has been spent. Nor can aid wait: the U.N. reckons that over 1.63 million people fled when bullets started flying between the Pakistani Taliban and the army. Their lives need to be rebuilt before they too start blaming Islamabad, and not the militants, for their misery...
Taviera Espinoza, 28, who was on vacation in Concepción and had managed to evacuate on a Hercules transport plane, told TIME that she and her family fled their rental home after the earthquake because they feared a tsunami. They came back to find the aftermath of looting. "When we returned, the house was empty," she said. "They stole everything: TV, food. Everything...