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Thailand and Cambodia are stepping up diplomatic efforts to prevent more fighting along their border. But the two countries accuse each other of using banned weapons in their battles in the past few days near a 900-year-old Hindu temple.
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Bangkok - Thailand is to send its foreign minister to the UN Security Council in New York next week to give its version of a border conflict with Cambodia, officials...
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The Thai government has thanked anti-government demonstrators for acting peacefully in their largest rally since the violent end to last May’s protests.
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(Reuters) - Thailand’s government agreed on Tuesday to lift an eight-month state of emergency in Bangkok, citing an improved political climate and a less...
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Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his ruling Democrat Party dodged a legal bullet Monday when the country’s Constitutional Court dismissed on...
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BANGKOK—Thailand’s government Monday faces the biggest threat to its stability since a wave of bloody street protests six months ago, as a court begins...
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Thailand will extradite accused Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout to the U.S. to face terrorism charges, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said today.
“He may be gone...
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Thailand said all of the 20,000 people who fled across the border from Myanmar after fighting broke out following the Nov. 7 election have been returned.
“The...
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Under the shade of tamarind trees, the teenage students display their battle wounds.
One shows where a gunshot grazed his neck last month. Another bares two scars on...
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Thai anti-government Red Shirts gathered in Bangkok and Chiang Mai Sunday to mark four years since a coup ousted Thaksin Shinawatra and to commemorate those slain in a...
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Secretly recorded cell phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in northeastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a...
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I know I already posted about the World Cup ball problem this morning, but sometimes I keep researching a topic even after I post it, and in this case I’m glad I...
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Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives somewhat controversially took out the coveted Palme d’Or award at the...
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The Thai army has stormed the redshirt encampment in a bloody crackdown in Bangkok that has forced anti-government protesters to surrender
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Thai troops fired at protesters on Saturday in a third day of fighting on Bangkok’s streets that has killed 16 people as soldiers struggle to isolate a sprawling...
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A renegade major general who allied himself with the protesters who have paralyzed Bangkok for weeks was shot in the head and critically wounded here on Thursday as the...
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Anti-government protesters have said they will respond to the prime minister’s latest peace proposal to end Thailand’s two-month political crisis, by...
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Thailand’s anti-government protesters said on Wednesday they would all congregate at a single site in a ritzy Bangkok shopping district, preparing for a...
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Thailand’s army chief suggested calling elections after 21 people were killed in weekend clashes between army troops and antigovernment protesters.
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Anti-government demonstrators broke into the country’s parliament building Wednesday, keeping a promise to intensify protests unless Prime Minister Abhisit...
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Thousands of anti-government protesters launched their fourth weekend demonstration in the Thai capital on Saturday, groping for tactics that have yet to force the...
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Thai protesters have hurled plastic bags filled with gallons of blood in a symbolic protest at the prime minister\’s house in Bangkok.
Security forces agreed to...
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Anti-government protesters started donating their own blood Tuesday as part of a plan to splatter the Thai government headquarters in a symbolic sacrifice to press...
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World-known for its officially-heterosexual-only stance Chinese press had, probably, published a young homeless man’s photo for his exclusive handsomeness appearing...
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Thailand’s Supreme Court on Friday confiscated $1.4 billion in frozen assets from the nation’s fugitive former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, after finding him...
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Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was in the country to officially launch Go Lotto, the latest gambling craze in town. Shinawatra who is the Chairman...
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A force of 5,000 armed with batons and shields entered the camp in Huay Nam Khao village in northern Thailand before dawn to load the Hmong on to trucks, said Colonel...
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Thousands of saffron-robed Thai monks chanted and prayed for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Saturday as Asia marked the fifth anniversary of one of...
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A plane seized in Bangkok with a cache of North Korean weapons wasn’t headed to Iran, a senior Thai police official said Wednesday, contradicting a report from...
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Thai authorities have detained five people who landed in Bangkok in an east European cargo plane full of heavy weapons that originated in North Korea, officials told...
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The country has come under fire from...
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Behind this dirt-floor stall, beyond the tables splayed with ropes of jerky, a butcher prepares the day’s catch.
The animal is rigored stiff on the cutting board,...
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Thailand may have a reputation for indulging visitors in their various vices, but smoking is no longer one of them. On Tuesday, more than 600 fired-up protesters...
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The gay sex scene alone would be enough to ban “This Area Is Under Quarantine” in many countries.
Filmed in a Bangkok hotel room, the scene offers lots of...
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The naming of an honorary economic advisor to a small Southeast Asian country doesn’t usually make news. But Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s designation...
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Little is real in Patpong, a glowing bazaar and sex district here in Bangkok. The Gucci is fake, the DVDs are pirated and the go-go girls tell every man he’s...
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Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, emerged from a hospital for the first time Friday since seeking medical attention...
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Saudi Arabia may join the list of countries seeking financial aid over the UN climate deal. According to a Forbes.com report, during the UN’s recent greenhouse gas...
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Bangkok Deputy Mayor Malinee Sukavejworakit, right, and others look on from behind masks during a news conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 1, 2009. Bangkok announced Friday that masks would be given to taxi drivers and others to pass onto...
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