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Safety for hire: security firms cash in on World Cup in Mexico
AFP, Published on 17/10/2025
» MEXICO CITY - Gunshots rang out in a Mexico City warehouse as Leopoldo Cerdeira emptied a cartridge into a car door propped up on a stand.
Agents of change
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/05/2025
» Awash with saturated colour and steeped in Brazil's history of authoritarianism, Kleber Mendoça Filho's The Secret Agent has emerged as a serious contender for the Palme d'Or. A former film critic, programmer and now a leading voice in Brazilian cinema, Mendoça Filho's fourth feature -- and his third in Cannes Competition -- is a political thriller, a tribute to disappeared dissidents, and a deft ode to the way memory is passed through time and technology.
More than 200 arrested in nationwide crime crackdown
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 21/03/2025
» A nationwide crackdown on influential criminal figures and hitmen on Friday resulted in more than 200 arrests, with one suspect killed and 219 guns seized.
Ex-Philippine leader Duterte bound for Hague over ICC drug war case
AFP, Published on 12/03/2025
» MANILA — Lawyers for former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who is bound for The Hague following his arrest on an International Criminal Court warrant tied to his deadly crackdown on drugs, filed a petition Wednesday demanding he be sent back to Manila.
Duterte ‘being sent to The Hague’
Published on 11/03/2025
» Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was on a plane bound for The Hague in the Netherlands on Tuesday night, following his arrest earlier in the day on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant.
Elections still too bloody
News, Editorial, Published on 16/12/2024
» The brutal assassination of Chaimet Sitsanitphong, a provincial council member, at the home of Soonthorn Vilawan, president of the Prachin Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO), has sent shockwaves across Thailand.
Iranian agents ‘plotted to kill Trump’
Published on 09/11/2024
» NEW YORK - US federal prosecutors said on Friday that Iranian plotters had discussed a plan to assassinate Donald Trump before he was elected as president this week.
No bail for trio in foiled murder plot
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 24/12/2023
» The Criminal Court has denied bail for a Taiwanese businessman and two Thai suspects -- a retired navy officer and a former navy Seal -- arrested in connection with a foiled murder plot linked to a business conflict.
Bail denied for foiled murder plotters
Published on 23/12/2023
» The Criminal Court has denied bail for a Taiwanese businessman and two Thai suspects — a retired navy officer and a former navy Seal — arrested in connection with a foiled murder plot linked to a business conflict.
Govt claims 700 'mafia' crimelords identified
Published on 03/10/2023
» Around 700 people have been listed as "mafia"-affiliated figures in the government’s ongoing suppression of illegal activities linked with these influential people nationwide, according to Karom Polpornklang, a deputy government spokesman.