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Papers reveal brainwashing, not job training, at China camps
Associated Press, Published on 25/11/2019
» A classified blueprint shows that the detention camps that hold more than a million ethnic minorities in China's far west are really ideological and behavioural re-education centres to rewire their language and thinking.
Tiger Woods has effect on Thai sports like few others
Associated Press, Published on 08/08/2019
» JERSEY CITY, New Jersey: Tiger Woods' first vacation to Thailand was a lot different from when he goes there for work.
Japan stocks plunge, other Asia markets fall after US losses
Associated Press, Published on 25/12/2018
» BEIJING: Japanese stocks plunged Tuesday and other Asian markets declined following heavy Wall Street losses triggered by President Donald Trump's criticism of the US central bank.
Japanese stocks plunge, SET slips after Wall Street losses
Associated Press, Published on 25/12/2018
» BEIJING: Japanese stocks plunged Tuesday and other Asian markets, including Thailand, declined following heavy Wall Street losses triggered by President Donald Trump's attack on the US central bank.
Alleged wildlife smuggling kingpin jailed
Associated Press, Published on 12/05/2018
» A court has sentenced a man believed to be a kingpin in the illicit wildlife trade to two years in prison for smuggling rhinoceros horns, according to an organisation that works with police to combat trafficking.
Top diplomat quits ‘whitewash’ Rohingya refugee panel
Associated Press, Published on 25/01/2018
» YANGON: Former New Mexico Gov Bill Richardson has resigned from an advisory panel on the massive Rohingya refugee crisis, calling it a “whitewash and a cheerleading operation” for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
US Congress struggles to avoid financial shutdown
Associated Press, Published on 19/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he's confident that his GOP-controlled chamber will pass a stopgap government-wide funding bill, even as growing opposition from Senate Democrats made prospects in that chamber increasingly dicey.
The rise and fall of the Islamic State group
Associated Press, Published on 17/10/2017
» BEIRUT: The Islamic State group, responsible for some of the worst atrocities perpetrated against civilians in recent history, appears on the verge of collapse.
From Scotland to Thailand, everyone's watching Catalonia
Associated Press, Published on 12/10/2017
» LONDON: - When Catalans voted for independence 10 days ago, Scottish independence activist Math Campbell-Sturgess travelled to Spain to observe the voting process, which was marred by thuggish attacks by police trying to shut down the disputed referendum.
Secret North Korean workers in China
Associated Press, Published on 05/10/2017
» HUNCHUN, China: The workers wake up each morning on metal bunk beds in fluorescent-lit Chinese dormitories, North Koreans outsourced by their government to process seafood that ends up in stores and homes in the US and other countries.