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Thai govt targets Cambodia's landmine claims
News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/07/2025
» The government is expected on Monday to finalise retaliatory responses to a recent landmine explosion in the Chong Bok border area of Ubon Ratchathani, near Cambodia, which left three Thai soldiers injured.
Written in blood
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/07/2025
» In 2015, Joe Freeman and Aung Naing Soe noticed the prominent status of poetry in Myanmar politics. At the time, both journalists heard that Maung Saungkha, a 23-year-old poet, posted a poem about having a tattoo of an unnamed president on his penis on Facebook. Saungkha, however, was charged for defaming former president Thein Sein under telecommunication law, serving a six-month jail term.
Fish sauce hurled at Hun Sen portrait outside Cambodian embassy
Online Reporters, Published on 09/07/2025
» A barefoot protester was fined 100 baht after splattering fermented fish sauce over a portrait of Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen outside the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok on Monday.
UN chief urges aid surge in world of 'climate chaos, raging conflicts'
AFP, Published on 30/06/2025
» SEVILLE (SPAIN) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world to "rev up the engine of development" at an aid conference in Spain on Monday at a time when US-led cuts are jeopardising the fight against poverty and climate change.
Kenya anniversary protests turn violent, 8 dead
AFP, Published on 26/06/2025
» NAIROBI - Marches in Kenya to mark a year since massive anti-government demos turned violent on Wednesday, with eight killed and at least 400 injured as protesters held running battles with police, who flooded Nairobi's streets with tear gas and sealed off government buildings with barbed wire.
Thai diplomacy is now in need of a reset
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 24/06/2025
» For the record, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has committed the most damaging diplomatic blunder in Thailand's modern history. The leaked 17.6-minute audio clip of a phone call between her and former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen was not just embarrassing -- it was devastating, not only for her but for the Thai people and the country.
Tens of thousands join pro-Palestinian marches across Europe
AFP, Published on 22/06/2025
» LONDON - Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in European cities calling for an end to the war in Gaza, hours before President Donald Trump said the US military had attacked three Iranian nuclear sites Sunday.
How Thai political crisis may unfold as PM fights to keep job
Published on 20/06/2025
» Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is fighting to hold on to power less than a year since taking office, after leaked comments critical of the military triggered a political crisis.
Trump can keep deploying troops in LA, says court
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/06/2025
» LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration won a brief reprieve from a judge’s order to pull back on its use of military troops in Los Angeles to deal with protests over the president's immigration raids.
‘Our city is not on fire’: LA residents reject Trump rhetoric
AFP, Published on 12/06/2025
» LOS ANGELES - Just blocks from where a handful of die-hard protesters faced police in Los Angeles on Wednesday, residents were enjoying lunch in the sun and shrugging off Donald Trump’s claims their city was burning.