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123mao · Thai PM delivers key speech amid large protests

Backers of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra protest at Parliament in Bangkok on Monday.
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The protesters had kept Abhisit and his ministers out of the Parliament building and forced the delay of his speech since

Monday.Abhisit delivered the constitutionally-required speech from the foreign ministry. He focused on improving the nation's

economy, promoting tourism and dealing with Thailand's troubled southern provinces.
The Thai constitution requires an incoming prime minister to address parliament with a formal policy speech within 15 days of

taking office.
Abhisit has until January 7 to fulfill the obligation, although the government can request an extension. The constitution

does not specify where the prime minister must deliver the speech.
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that he would not authorize violence or a special law to deal with the demonstrations.
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not affect the government's plans," he said, according to the Thai News Agency.

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his Democrat Party headquarters in Bangkok in a show of solidarity.
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on December 17after some members of the former ruling coalition broke ranks to support him.
But his accession was met with angry protests by supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin

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rocks and chunks of pavement at lawmakers leaving the session.
Thailand's recent woes date back to a 2006 coup that ousted Thaksin. They culminated with a December 2 court ruling that

found the ruling party -- former Thaksin backers -- guilty of electoral fraud and threw his brother-in-law out of the prime

minister's office.
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ruling came after more than two months of sit-ins by opponents of the ruling People Power Party, which regained office in

2007 elections.
Demonstrators occupied the headquarters of the government and blockaded Bangkok's major international airport, stranding

hundreds of thousands of tourists who provide much of the country's revenue.

Abhisit has pledged to work toward an economic rescue for Thailand, which teeters on the edge of recession.
Since the 2007 elections ended 16 months of military rule, the country has had three prime ministers.

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12123mao · Awami League wins Bangladesh election

Supporters of Bangladesh's Awami League Party celebrate in Dhaka on Monday.
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With 295 contests decided, the Awami League had won 228 seats, giving it far more than the two-thirds majority needed to change the country's constitution, the commission reported. The league's closest rival, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, won 27 seats, with one seat to be contested later.
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The results are an overwhelming win for Hasina over her longtime archrival, the BNP's Khaleda Zia, in the first vote since an army-backed caretaker government took power in 2006. The rivalry between the two former prime ministers runs so deep that they are known in the country as the "Battling Begums," for an honorific given to women of rank in the country.
Monday's balloting went off peacefully, except for a few isolated incidents of skirmishes and people complaining of not finding their names on voter rolls. Asif Saleh, executive director of the human rights group Drishtipat, told CNN that the turnout was close to 70 percent.
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"On one hand, it was sending a clear message that the people of Bangladesh believe in democracy," Saleh said. "But on the other hand it's also that they are looking for a sweeping change in the country."
He said anti-incumbent sentiment appeared to damage the BNP, which was in power for the five years before a 2006 state of emergency that was lifted only weeks ago.
"What was surprising was the kind of scale of the change," he said.
Political analysts say the true test of whether democracy can flourish in this Muslim-majority nation of 150 million people begins now.
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After its last stint in power ended in 2006, the BNP handed over rule to a caretaker government to conduct elections, as mandated by the country's constitution. But the Awami League refused to recognize the neutrality of the interim government, and Hasina accused Zia of stocking it with BNP backers.
Supporters of both sides took to the streets in months of deadly clashes. To stem the tide of violence, a military-backed government took control in January 2007 and imposed an indefinite state of emergency, banning political events and postponing elections until it said it could clean up the country's graft-ridden politics.
Zia served a term as prime minister in 1991, Hasina in 1996 and Zia once again in 2001. As one took office, the other led strikes and street protests that kept the Muslim-majority country of 150 million people politically unstable and financially radioactive to international investors.
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Both face allegations of corruption, which each have dismissed as politically motivated. And Hasina was forced to curtail her campaign activities, relying on videoconferencing to address crowds as police investigated a report by CNN-IBN that a fundamentalist Muslim group had dispatched a six-member suicide squad to assassinate her.
The group, Harkat ul Jihad al Islami is banned in Bangladesh. Hasina survived a prior attempt on her life in 2004 when extremists threw grenades at a rally, killing 20 and wounding hundreds.
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Past elections in Bangladesh have been marred by widespread instances of ballot box-stuffing and voter intimidation. To prevent a similar outcome this go-around, the election commission took unprecedented steps -- deploying 600,000 troops to maintain security and thousands of local and international observers to monitor the polls and issuing voter identification cards to 81 million eligible voters.
The caretaker government that took power in 2006 adopted emergency powers that allowed authorities to arrest a person without a court warrant as long as there was reasonable suspicion that he or she was related to a crime, said the New York-based group, Human Rights Watch.
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A wave of detentions followed, and residents rejoiced at the drop in crime. By some estimates, more than 90,000 people were detained before some were released and others charged. The state of emergency was lifted on December 17, leaving politicians less than two weeks to campaign.

Among those arrested in the interim were more than 150 top politicians, including Hasina -- charged with taking bribes -- and Zia -- facing charges of graft of improperly awarding a multi-million dollar government contract.

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The Feast of Christmas
It is not easy to pin-point the origins of the Christmas feast, today the more important feast of the

Christmas season in most western Christian churches. One can only say for certain that the birth of

Jesus Christ was being celebrated in Rome by the year 336 A.D.; afterwards the feast was celebrated

in other Christian churches throughout the world.
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Why it was celebrated on December 25th is another question. No date for the birth of Jesus can be

found in the New Testament, which is concerned more with the question "Who is Jesus?" than the date

of his birth. Early Christian speculation about his birth date was influenced by the symbolism of the

changing seasons, then popular in religious thought, which paid careful attention to the equinoxes

and solstices of the sun. Christian scholars speculated that Jesus was conceived at the spring

equinox (March 25th) and therefore was born on December 25th, the date of the winter solstice.
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In many of the Christian churches, March 25th is still the Feast of the Annunciation, when the Angel

Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to be the mother of Jesus.

Possible impluse for the feast of Christmas may have came too from the establishment of the pagan

feast of the "Unconquered Sun-God" by the Emperor Aurelian in 274 A.D. to be celebrated on December

25, the day of the winter solstice in Rome and throughout the empire. In response, Christians could

celebrate the feast of the "Sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4,2), Jesus Christ, who called himself "

the light of the world."
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Father Christmas

It is said that in the year of 300 AD, there was a kind old man and his name was Saint Nicholas. He

was always ready to help the poor and often gave presents to them.

Today, Father Christmas is an imaginary figure, but nearly all young children believe in him. They

think he is a happy old man with a long white beard and a long red robe.
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On the night of the twenty-fourth of December every year, Father Christmas from some cold northern

land comes down the chimney of the fireplace to put presents by the beds of children or to fill their

stockings. So when children go to bed that night, they hang up their stockings, and on Christmas

morning they wake to find them full of presents. Of course, it's really their parents who fill the

stockings.
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Another name for Father Christmas is Santa Claus.

For today's Christian, the origin of Christmas is, and should be, the birth of Jesus Christ as

recorded in the Bible. Nothing more and nothing less. However, most of what we witness on December

25th each year has absolutely nothing to do with that blessed day, which probably occurred in late

summer or early fall about 2,000 years ago. In fact, most of the customs and traditions of Christmas

actually pre-date the birth of Jesus, and many of them are downright deceptive in their meaning and

origin. Anyway, who cares when Christ was born?
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Christmas Day,the 25th of December,is the biggest festival(节日)celebrated in the Christian countries

of the world.Although everyone enjoys Christmas Day,it is particularly enjoyed by children,who get

very excited because of the presents they know they are going to receive.Small children believe that

their presents are brought by Father Christmas(圣诞老人).Father Christmas is a kind of old man

who,the children are told,lives at the North Pole.He travels through the sky on a sleigh(雪撬) which

is pulled by reindeers(驯鹿) and loaded with(装满) presents.Stopping on the roof of houses,he enters

by climbing the chimney(烟囱).When small children go to bed on Christmas Eve,they hang a stocking at

the end of their beds.Their parents warn them not to try to look at Father Christmas,or he will not

leave them anything.When they wake,they find their stockings filled with presents.Children are very

excited on Christmas morning and always wake up early.
Christmas is also a family celebration.As any members of the family as possible gather to eat,play

party games and watch the special Christmas programmes on TV.

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