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Saudi woman held at Bangkok airport 'fears death' if repatriated
AFP, Published on 06/01/2019
» A Saudi woman held at Bangkok airport said she would be killed if she was repatriated by Thai immigration officials, who confirmed the 18-year-old was denied entry to the country on Sunday.
City 'struggling to stay afloat'
News, AFP, Published on 03/09/2018
» As Bangkok prepares to host climate-change talks, the sprawling city of more than 10 million is itself under siege from the environment, with dire forecasts warning it could be partially submerged in just over a decade.
58 of 216 Thais trapped on quake-hit volcano to return Tuesday
AFP, Published on 31/07/2018
» MATARAM, Indonesia: Fifty-eight of the 216 Thais evacuated from an Indonesian volcano after a deadly earthquake triggered landslides that trapped them on the mountain will return home on Tuesday, officials said.
Elon Musk brings mini-sub to cave
AFP, Published on 10/07/2018
» American space entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted that he visited the Tham Luang cave operation on Monday and Tuesday morning, and left behind a prototype mini-sub "in case it is useful" at the flooded cave where five members of a youth football team remained trapped.
Ex-cop nabbed for 'Golden State Killer' murders, rapes 40 years ago
AFP, Published on 26/04/2018
» LOS ANGELES - California authorities, after a 40-year manhunt, on Wednesday announced the arrest of a 72-year-old former police officer on suspicion of being the notorious "Golden State Killer," a serial rapist and murderer who terrorised the state in the 1970s and 1980s.
Researchers find 'catastrophic' coral die-off on Great Barrier Reef
AFP, Published on 19/04/2018
» SYDNEY: Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffered a "catastrophic die-off" of coral during an extended heatwave in 2016, threatening a broader range of reef life than previously feared, a report revealed Thursday.
Ailing Inuka, first polar bear born in tropics, put down
AFP, Published on 25/04/2018
» SINGAPORE: Inuka, the first polar bear born in the tropics, was put down Wednesday after a rapid decline in health, with Singapore Zoo mourning the loss of one of its best-loved animals.
Myanmar migrants haunted by memory of tsunami missing in Thailand
AFP, Published on 21/12/2014
» BAN NAM KHEM, PHANGNGA - A decade after towering waves wrenched her newborn baby from her arms, Mi Htay remains haunted by memories of the children she lost in the tsunami whose bodies, like hundreds of other Myanmar migrants in Thailand, were never identified.
Brit kickboxer gets 25yrs for murder
AFP, Published on 28/11/2013
» The Criminal Court sentenced a British kickboxer to 25 years in prison Thursday for the murder of a former US Marine following a bar fight on the island of Phuket.
Police seize nearly 200 pangolins
AFP, Published on 17/09/2013
» Police Tuesday said they had seized almost 200 live protected pangolins, which are prized in China and Vietnam as an exotic meal and for use in traditional medicine.