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Online Reporters, Published on 30/11/2021
» The National Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to punish coalition supporter and former protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban for alleged malfeasance involving a government project to build 396 new police stations costing 5.84 billion baht about a decade ago.
AFP, Published on 26/11/2021
» ISTANBUL - The trial of jailed civil society leader Osman Kavala resumed on Friday with the first hearing since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to expel 10 Western ambassadors who called for his release.
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 22/11/2021
» Parit "Itim" Wacharasindhu has stepped out of obscurity to chart his own destiny in politics.
AFP, Published on 24/10/2021
» ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday told his foreign minister to expel the ambassadors of 10 countries, including Germany and the United States, who had appealed for the release of a jailed civil society leader.
Online Reporters, Published on 20/10/2021
» Sonthiyan Chuenruthainaitham, founder of Top News television channel, was on Wednesday sentenced by the Appeal Court to eight months imprisonment without suspension for disrupting advance voting for the Feb 2, 2014 general election.
AFP, Published on 13/10/2021
» DAR EL BEïDA (ALGERIA) - The powerful younger brother of deposed late Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for "obstructing the course of justice", the official APS news agency reported.
AFP, Published on 01/10/2021
» TBILISI - Ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili said Friday he had returned from exile to Georgia, despite the threat of arrest and ahead of local elections in the Caucasus country gripped by a protracted political crisis.
AFP, Published on 29/09/2021
» BEIJING - China's ambitious foreign infrastructure push has saddled poor nations with "hidden debt" worth $385 billion, and more than a third of the projects have been hit by alleged corruption scandals and protests, a study said Wednesday.
AFP, Published on 18/09/2021
» ALGIERS - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who died Friday aged 84, was Algeria's longest-serving president and a veteran of the independence struggle who clung to power through ill health before being forced out in 2019.
News, Published on 11/09/2021
» The no-confidence debate has passed with the government coming through relatively unscathed, leaving the anti-government pendulum swinging back to the street protests.