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India ‘to build $3.7bn Myanmar border fence’
Published on 27/03/2024
» NEW DELHI - India plans to spend nearly US$3.7 billion to fence its porous 1,610-kilometre border with Myanmar within about a decade, said a source with direct knowledge of the matter, to prevent smuggling and other illegal activities.
MFP decision sparks collusion rumours
Oped, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 09/03/2024
» The decision of the Move Forward Party (MFP) and the opposition bloc to seek a general debate instead of no-confidence censure against the Srettha Thavisin government has sparked suspicion of political collusion between political opponents.
Surrogacy to be legalised for foreigners
Post Reporters, Published on 01/03/2024
» Authorities are preparing to change the surrogacy law to welcome foreign couples to have surrogate babies in Thailand, according to the Department of Health Service Support.
Man held in connection with surrogacy ring
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 24/02/2024
» A man believed to be part of a transnational surrogacy network has been arrested in Nonthaburi for alleged involvement in smuggling frozen human semen into Laos.
Israeli PM reveals ‘day after’ plan
Published on 23/02/2024
» JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented his first official “day after” plan for the Gaza Strip once the war there ends, saying Israel will keep security control over all Palestinian areas and make reconstruction of Gaza dependent on its demilitarisation.
The true cost of our 'wars' and 'wreckonomics'
Oped, Published on 16/02/2024
» In Constantine Cavafy's poem Waiting for the Barbarians, the much-feared barbarians never turn up. "Now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?" the poem asks. "Those people were a kind of solution."
Govt to review limit on drug possession amid backlash
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 13/02/2024
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on Monday said the government is ready to review a ministerial policy that will lower punishment for drug users found in possession of five meth pills or less.
Rohingya beaten by man for ransom
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 10/02/2024
» A 37-year-old Myanmar man has been arrested in Hat Yai for brutally beating three Rohingya -- two women and a 14-year-old boy -- in a bid to get a 500,000 kyat (8,500 baht) ransom from them while smuggling them into Malaysia.
Cambodian held with war weapons in Trat
Published on 09/02/2024
» TRAT: Ten rifles, almost 1,500 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, 47 magazines and other items were seized and a Cambodian man arrested in a boat off the coast of Trat province in the early hours of Friday.
Meth seizures double amid economic woes
News, Published on 09/02/2024
» More than 250 million methamphetamine pills have been seized since early in the second half of last year -- double the amount of this illegal narcotic intercepted during the corresponding period one year earlier.