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Immigration games
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/12/2020
» I, like nearly 90% of all foreigners living here in Thailand, am getting tired of going to immigration for our yearly visa renewal, only to find out that we did not follow the "rules of the day". We want immigration to state a clear policy of what is, or is not, required to renew our visas. To that end, we ask:
Rohingya trafficking network sells dreams, delivers violence and extortion
AFP, Published on 15/12/2020
» COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world's biggest refugee camp, their drivers among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network involving high-seas extortion gangs, corrupt police and drug lords.
Protests rile taxi driver, big bike scrape, fatal teen spill
News, Mae Moo, Published on 29/11/2020
» No-talkies upsets jailbird
Production Problems Spur Broad FAA Review of Boeing Dreamliner Lapses
Business, Published on 09/09/2020
» Production problems at a Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner factory have prompted air-safety regulators to review quality-control lapses potentially stretching back almost a decade, according to an internal government memo and people familiar with the matter.
8 days on, search continues for 2 men missing from Samui ferry
Published on 09/08/2020
» KOH SAMUI: Rescuers are using every means, including combing beaches, to search for two missing men eight days after the ferry they were on capsized off this resort island.
Fallen star dies, Grab tales, skin drama, conscript colour
News, Mae Moo, Published on 26/07/2020
» Rehab fails for ex-actress
Body of Glee star Naya Rivera recovered from US lake
Life, AFP, Published on 15/07/2020
» US officials on Monday found the body of Glee actress Naya Rivera in the California lake where she drowned last week during a boat trip with her four-year-old son.
Russia struggles to clean up Arctic river fuel spill
AFP, Published on 04/06/2020
» MOSCOW - Russia on Thursday intensified efforts to clean up a major fuel spill that environmentalists say is the worst such accident in the Arctic, as investigators made their first arrest.
We shall meet again
Life, Published on 13/04/2020
» Thailand without Songkran in April is unprecedented. But in a shocking move, the first meeting of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration last month decided that the annual Songkran holidays -- April 13-15 -- should be postponed to later, undisclosed dates.
China sentences Swedish bookseller abducted in Thailand to 10 years
AFP, Published on 25/02/2020
» BEIJING: A Chinese court has sentenced Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai to 10 years in prison on charges of illegally providing intelligence abroad in a case that has rattled relations between Beijing and Stockholm.