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Free Speech Radio News lineup - Monday, April 03, 2006

THAI ELECTIONS Thailand is still in a political chaos, a day and a half after the elections following the dissolution of its parliament. Severine Bardon reports from Bangkok. Official results are not known yet, but there are already complaints of irregularities; the main one being that the position of the voting booths didn't protect voting secrecy. Opposition parties who asked for a boycott of the poll where happy about the first unofficial results: participation has been around 60%, which is very low for Thailand, and more than half of the participants chose the "no vote" option in Bangkok a…