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| Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has survived a no-confidence vote in parliament, amid major street protests in the capital, Bangkok. | Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has survived a no-confidence vote in parliament, amid major street protests in the capital, Bangkok. |
| The motion was brought by the opposition Democrat Party, but Ms Yingluck's Pheu Thai party dominate the chamber and voted it down. | The motion was brought by the opposition Democrat Party, but Ms Yingluck's Pheu Thai party dominate the chamber and voted it down. |
| Ms Yingluck's government is facing the biggest demonstrations to hit Thailand since the violence of 2010. | Ms Yingluck's government is facing the biggest demonstrations to hit Thailand since the violence of 2010. |
| UN chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern over the tensions and urged restraint. | UN chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern over the tensions and urged restraint. |
| Protests began in Bangkok on Sunday. Since then, demonstrators calling on the government to step down have marched on ministries and government bodies in an attempt to shut them down. | Protests began in Bangkok on Sunday. Since then, demonstrators calling on the government to step down have marched on ministries and government bodies in an attempt to shut them down. |
| The demonstrators, who are led by a former opposition party lawmaker, say Ms Yingluck's government is controlled by her brother - the ousted former leader Thaksin Shinawatra. | |
| Ms Yingluck has invoked special powers allowing curfews and road closures and police have also ordered the arrest of the protest leader - but so far no move has been made to detain him. | |
| The protests have been largely peaceful and correspondents have described the mood of the rallies as friendly. | |
| The UN leader Ban Ki-moon has urged all sides to "to exercise the utmost restraint, refrain from the use of violence and to show full respect for the rule of law and human rights". | The UN leader Ban Ki-moon has urged all sides to "to exercise the utmost restraint, refrain from the use of violence and to show full respect for the rule of law and human rights". |
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| Ms Yingluck won 297 out of 492 possible votes, easily surviving the lower house censure motion. | |
| It is not clear what the protesters will do next, the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok reports. | |
| So far they have succeeded only in disrupting the business of government for a few days, and the authorities have been careful not to risk violence by confronting them, our correspondent adds. | |
| Earlier on Thursday, Thai Education Minister Chaturon Chaiseng told our correspondent that the Pheu Thai party would have to find a balance and demonstrate it was not controlled by Mr Thaksin. | |
| "They will need to make it clear that whoever is going to be prime minister can show that they have independence and can make a decision on their own," he said. | |
| "The fact that some people do not believe in the government or the coalition parties anymore doesn't mean they can either overthrow the government or change the system," he added. |