Thai PM's holiday plan aims to defuse protests

2009/04/10 01:04:02 @Reuters: International News

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva made Friday a public holiday, hoping to clear the streets of protesters and nip growing political unrest in the bud. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=wUpHkJadisY:8NzQNSIzDx0:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=wUpHkJadisY:8NzQNSIzDx0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=wUpHkJadisY:8NzQNSIzDx0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=wUpHkJadisY:8NzQNSIzDx0:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=wUpHkJadisY:8NzQNSIzDx0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/wUpHkJadisY" height="1" width="1"/
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