Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, third left, speaks as other Mekong region leaders from left, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh, Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung listen during a joint press conference following the Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting at Hatoyama's official residence on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Tokyo. Japan hosted the first summit meeting between Japan and the five Mekong countries for Friday and Saturday. AP Photo logo AP Photo 2 weeks ago

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, third left, speaks as other Mekong region leaders from left, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh, Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung listen during a joint press conference following the Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting at Hatoyama's official residence on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Tokyo. Japan hosted the first summit meeting between Japan and the five Mekong countries for Friday and Saturday.

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  2. A demonstrator from Thailand's royalist 'Yellow Shirt' movement holds a sign showing former premier Thaksin Shinawatra (L) hugging Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (R) during a rally in Bangkok on November 15, 2009. Thousands of royalist demonstrators protested in Bangkok against a visit to Cambodia by their arch-foe, fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. The group said it had called the rally to express outrage at the neighbouring country's appointment of Thaksin as an economic adviser and Phnom Penh's refusal to extradite him during his four-day trip there this week.
  3. A yellow-shirted protester holds a portrait of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during a rally in Bangkok November 15, 2009. Thousands of Thais gathered in central Bangkok on Sunday to protest at remarks made about the monarchy by fugitive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
  4. Members of the ASAEN 10 link hands for a group photo, from left to right, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, Myanmar's Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, U.S. President Barack Obama, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphvanh, in Singapore, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009.
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  7. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (L) greets U.N. Development Programme Administrator Helen Clark at the Foreign Ministry in Bangkok October 5, 2009. Clark was attending the launch of the 2009 Human Development Report titled "Overcoming Barriers; Human Mobility and Development".
  8. Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, right, greets back to a victim of the train derailment at a hospital in Hua Hin, Prachuabkirikhant province, sothern Thailand Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. A train derailed during heavy rains Monday near Thailand's coastal city of Hua Hin, killing at least 10 people, including a 2-year-old girl, and injuring 88 others, officials said.
  9. Gilles Simon (L) of France talks with Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (R) during a trophy ceremony following the ATP Thailand Open tennis tournament in Bangkok on October 4, 2009. Simon used his experience to defeat Serb Viktor Troicki 7-5, 6-3 at the Thailand Open, winning his first title of the season.
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  15. Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (C) visits an area devastated by Typhoon Ketsana in Vietnam's central city of Hoi An October 1, 2009. Millions of people were battling on Thursday to cope with the aftermath of a typhoon that cut a destructive path through parts of Southeast Asia, killing 400, as a stronger storm emerged off the Philippines.
  16. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, left, Chairman of the Presidium of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Huynh Dam, second from left, and Communist Party Chief Nong Duc Manh, third from left, watch Vietnamese women play instruments during the opening ceremony of the 7th National Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, VFF, at the International Convention Center in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. The VFF committees from across the country, including high-ranking leaders of the party and state, gathered for the three-day congress.

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