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Thailand's last hunter-gatherers seek land rights
AFP, Published on 22/11/2025
» PA BON (THAILAND) - Deep in a Thai forest a young man sprints through the undergrowth, blowpipe in hand, before pumping a poisoned dart at a monkey.
Skating stars begin quest for Olympic gold in France
AFP, Published on 16/10/2025
» PARIS - US figure skater Ilia Malinin and Japan's Kaori Sakamoto headline the Olympic season opener at the elite ISU Grand Prix de France in Angers starting Friday, looking to lay the groundwork for gold at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games.
Rival camps protest in Seoul as president resists arrest
AFP, Published on 04/01/2025
» SEOUL - Thousands of rival South Korean protesters rallied in the capital on Saturday, a day after a failed attempt to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol for imposing a short-lived martial law decree that led to his impeachment.
Young Thai chefs shake up Bangkok's food scene
AFP, Published on 29/06/2023
» Thitid Tassanakajohn has a degree in economics from Thailand's top university but turned his back on a stable career in finance to launch a high-end restaurant in Bangkok -- a city famed for its street food.
Bangkok becoming a weed Wild West
AFP, Published on 15/12/2022
» From sleek boutiques to rickety stalls, hundreds of cannabis dispensaries have sprouted across Bangkok since decriminalisation, but in a country once infamous for tough drug laws, vendors are asking: can the high times last?
National parks ban single-use plastics
AFP, Published on 06/04/2022
» The government on Wednesday banned styrofoam packaging and single-use plastics from national parks as it fights a scourge of waste threatening wildlife.
Double lung transplant saves US man with terminal cancer
AFP, Published on 25/03/2022
» WASHINGTON - US doctors announced Thursday they had successfully performed a double lung transplant on a patient with terminal lung cancer, giving new hope to others who also are in advanced stages of the deadly disease.
Samsung boss convicted, fined for anaesthetic misuse: Yonhap
AFP, Published on 26/10/2021
» SEOUL - The de-facto leader of South Korea's sprawling Samsung group Lee Jae-yong was convicted Tuesday of illegally using the anaesthetic drug propofol, the latest legal travail to beset the multi-billionaire.
Last resort: the seeds kept safe in a South Korean mountain
AFP, Published on 01/06/2021
» BONGHWA (SOUTH KOREA) - Hidden in a South Korean mountain tunnel designed to withstand a nuclear blast, the seeds of nearly 5,000 wild plant species are stored for safekeeping against climate change, natural disaster and war.
Thai wine sisters take aim at booze monopoly
AFP, Published on 15/07/2020
» Sisters Mimi and Nikki have battled Thailand's tropical climate, chased off elephants from their vineyards and won over a sceptical public to their award-winning wine. Now they're taking on the "unfair" booze laws critics say benefit the kingdom's billionaire booze monopolies.