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Elephants join search for missing boy
Associated Press, Published on 24/12/2018
» Four elephants mounted by their mahouts have joined the search for a 2-year-old boy from Myanmar who has been missing for a week, as hundreds of rescuers combed through a sugarcane field for traces of the missing child.
Activists demand Thailand release refugee footballer
Associated Press, Published on 22/12/2018
» SYDNEY: Human rights groups and former football players have called on Fifa and the Australian government to intervene to stop a Melbourne-based refugee and semi-professional footballer from being extradited from Thailand to Bahrain.
Terrorist charges over death of Thai tourist
Associated Press, Published on 19/12/2018
» PARIS: A man suspected of supplying the gun used in the Christmas market shooting attack that killed five people in Strasbourg has been handed preliminary terror charges, according to a French judicial official close to the investigation.
Cambodia's biggest hydropower dam now producing electricity
Associated Press, Published on 17/12/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's largest hydropower project officially began producing electricity Monday as the country tries to increase its energy capacity to reduce energy imports and help jump-start industrial expansion.
China defers lifting ban on trading tiger parts, rhino horn
Associated Press, Published on 13/11/2018
» BEIJING: China is postponing its decision to allow trading in tiger and rhinoceros parts a bare two weeks after the easing of the ban had raised fears the country was giving legal cover to poaching and smuggling of endangered wildlife.
Grenade-shaped belt buckle halts Spanish trains
Associated Press, Published on 07/11/2018
» MADRID: A hand grenade-shaped belt buckle in the suitcase of a train passenger triggered major disruptions Wednesday on rail services in Spain's two main cities, prompting station evacuations before police declared the incident a false alarm.
Muslim concern about vaccine fuels measles outbreak
Associated Press, Published on 06/11/2018
» Health authorities are racing to contain a measles outbreak in the country's southern provinces, where 14 deaths and more than 1,500 cases have been reported since September.
Thai Red Cross wants bloody-minded donors for Halloween
Associated Press, Published on 31/10/2018
» Thailand's Red Cross Society may not measure its blood supplies by the bucket, but it knows how to throw a Halloween party.
Data recorder recovered from Vichai's crashed helicopter
Associated Press, Published on 30/10/2018
» LEICESTER, England: The flight data recorder from the helicopter that crashed, killing the Leicester soccer team's owner, is being examined by investigators, authorities said, as his family and players paid tribute Monday at a makeshift shrine.
King Power’s Vichai struck gold in business and football
Associated Press, Published on 29/10/2018
» Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died when his helicopter crashed in a car park next to the soccer club's stadium, was known to fans as a smiling, benevolent man who gave away free beers and hot dogs on his birthday and brought his Leicester City Football Club its fairytale English Premier League title in 2016. He was 60.