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 The largest infrastructure project in Laos, the Nam Theun 2 hydropower facility, has started commercial export of electricity to Thailand, the hydro project's operators said Wednesday. |  The Norwegian indie folk pop duo brings us their signature chill-out tunes like “Brave New World,” “Misread,” “I'd Rather Dance with You,” as well as tracks from their latest album, Declaration of Dependence. |
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 Kempinski, Europe's oldest luxury hotel brand, will open the Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok in June. The luxury city resort with 303 rooms and suites is located adjacent to a royal palace in the centre of Bangkok. All rooms overlook tropical gardens interspersed with extensive water features. Twenty-two rooms have direct private access to the pools in the garden. |  Northern Thailand has been polluted by a thick haze for the past few days. The smog situation in Mae Hong Son remains critical, forcing Nok Air to suspend three daily flights for three days in a row. |
![Red-Shirted Protesters Hurl Blood at Thai PM's House [Video]](http://69.73.159.248/images/pattaya/en/7/8/385478_t.jpg) |  Montenegro's police Wednesday confirmed former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was in the southeastern European country and holds a passport of the former Yugoslav republic. |
 Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said Wednesday that the government is ready for talks with the leaders of United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), which is currently holding ongoing mass demonstrations in Bangkok. |  Hundreds of illegally caught aquarium fish were confisticated from a house in Phuket. The owner of the house hired local fishermen to catch the fish with cyanide in coral reefs around the islands of Ko Racha and Ko Khai. |
 Red-shirted anti-government protesters hurled plastic bags, filled with liters of their own blood, into Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajjiva's heavily guarded Bangkok residence on Wednesday morning, in an effort to force the premier to dissolve the parliament and call elections. |  An M79 grenade exploded on Tuesday at a house 200 metres from the Bangkok residence of the president of the Thailand's Supreme Administrative Court. On the same day, the company of Bhumjaithai Party leader Newin Chidchob's father-in-law was targeted with a ping pong bomb. |
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