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AFP, Published on 05/04/2020
» A shutdown to contain the coronavirus has killed Thailand's party scene and forced sex workers like Pim out of bars and onto desolate streets. She's scared but desperately needs customers to pay her rent.
AFP, Published on 29/03/2020
» Hundreds of cruise ship passengers were due to board flights for Germany via Phuket on Sunday, after spending days stranded at sea off the West Australian coast in a stand-off with authorities.
AFP, Published on 08/03/2020
» Thousands took to the streets across Asia for International Women's Day on Sunday even as the coronavirus outbreak forced the cancellation of events in the region.
AFP, Published on 08/03/2020
» Thailand and Malaysia have barred a cruise ship carrying about 2,000 people, including dozens of Italians, from docking due to fears about the new coronavirus, an official said Sunday.
AFP, Published on 11/02/2020
» An emotional army chief on Tuesday urged a nation in mourning over a mass shooting "not to blame the army" after a soldier gunned down at least 29 people in a rampage linked to a debt dispute with a senior officer.
AFP, Published on 09/02/2020
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: In a fourth floor toilet of the Terminal 21 mall shoppers jammed cubicle doors against the entrance to keep out a soldier on a shooting spree, tracing his movements through fragments of CCTV passed on by friends on the outside.
AFP, Published on 19/01/2020
» BEIJING: China reported 17 new cases of the mysterious SARS-like virus on Sunday, including three in a severe condition, heightening fears ahead of China's Lunar New Year holiday when hundreds of millions of people move around the country -- and thousands will come to Thailand.
AFP, Published on 10/01/2020
» CHIANG KHONG: Ninety-seven kilometres of rocks in Thai waters stand between Beijing and dominance over the Mekong, a mighty river that feeds millions as it threads south from the Tibetan plateau through five countries before emptying into the South China Sea.
AFP, Published on 23/12/2019
» SURIN: Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food -- many Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as 'sanctuaries' to cruelty-conscious travellers.
AFP, Published on 21/11/2019
» Pope Francis met with the Supreme Patriarch on Thursday in a gilded temple on the first full day of his Asia tour aimed at promoting religious harmony.