Category: Thailand
AK Antony to visit Thailand tomorrow
Defence minister AK Antony will visit Thailand on Thursday to discuss a wide range of issues, including security of sea lanes, cooperation in combating organised crime and [...]
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Drug courier killed in Thailand gun battle
Thai police said they shot and killed a suspected drug smuggler during a gunbattle with 20 suspects in a remote mountainous area near the border with Myanmar. Police said the [...]
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Thailand’s Energy Shortages Raise Political Temperature
Thailand has not had an easy time over the past several years. The government was reshuffled in 2011, the country was hit with massive flooding in October of the same year, [...]
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Thailand Under Spotlight Over Stranded Rohingya ‘Boat People’
Thailand is under pressure to release from detention more than 1,700 Muslim Rohingya refugees, some of whom have been found locked up under squalid conditions for several [...]
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Thailand says no third country wants Rohingya
Thailand said Tuesday that it was unable to find any other country willing to accept about 2,000 Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar who have been detained for [...]
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Thailand asking people to drink more milk
Using milk to get higher? “Thailand is asking citizens of all ages to drink at least one glass of cow’s milk a day,” says The Guardian. “Speaking at [...]
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Thailand pardons Singaporean royal insult prisoner
Thailand on Tuesday pardoned a Singaporean who was sentenced to 15 years in jail in 2009 under the kingdom’s controversial royal defamation law, a lawyer said. Wanchai [...]
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Microsoft Surface Pro to be available in Thailand, Malaysia and Korea
Powered by an Intel Core i5 processor and running Windows 8 Pro, the Microsoft Surface Pro is finally rolling out to other countries in the region after making its debut in [...]
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Interview: Thailand and China to cooperate in curbing fraudulent practices in tourism
Thailand and China will join hands to curb fraudulent practices by tour operators that could victimise unsuspecting Chinese visitors to Thailand, Thai Tourism & Sports [...]
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6 arrested in weapons export ring to Thailand
The US attorney’s office in Seattle says six people have been arrested following an investigation into a ring that exported restricted firearm parts from the United [...]
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Press body decries Thai royal insult arrests
A top world press body warned Monday that Thailand’s contentious royal defamation law was creating a “climate of fear” and being misused to wrongly imprison [...]
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Documentary looks at Thai dog smugglers
As many as 200,000 dogs a year are smuggled out of Thailand, across the Mekong River and into Vietnam. The cruel journeys – in which the dogs are crammed in cages [...]
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Thailand: End Inhumane Detention of Rohingya
The Thai government should immediately end the detention under inhumane conditions of more than 1,700 ethnic Rohingya from Burma, Human Rights Watch said today. Rohingya [...]
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Berkeley woman held on suspicion of unlicensed export of guns to Thailand
Federal agents arrested a Berkeley woman holding Thai citizenship over the weekend for allegedly exporting firearms parts from the US to Thailand without a license. Supanee [...]
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3 killed in stone mill collapse in Thailand’s west
Thai authorities say three stone grinding mill workers were killed and four were injured after gigantic rocks fell upon them during a landslide in a western province in [...]
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