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Saturday, December 22, 2007

353,000 hill tribesmen 
to get Thailand citizenship

BANGKOK: Thailand will grant citizenship to 353,000 people, mostly hill tribesmen living in the country’s north bordering Myanmar and Laos, coup leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin said Friday.

Sonthi, who is also deputy prime minister responsible for security, said the 353,000 people have lived in Thailand for at least 10 years.

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Australian miners injured by explosion

SYDNEY: Eleven miners were injured Thursday, one of them seriously, after inhaling toxic gases released by a controlled explosion at an underground gold mine in Australia, officials said.

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Lee pushes Russian project using Korean labor

SEOUL: South Korea’s next leader on Friday proposed a joint project to develop natural resources in Russia’s Far East using cheap labor from North Korea, Yonhap news agency said.

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WORLD INBRIEF

BUKIT TA, Thailand: The leaders of Malaysia and Thailand opened a new bridge across their shared border Friday, in the latest effort to boost the economy of a region hit by years of insurgent violence.

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