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16 gunmen killed in Thai military base attack
AFP, Published on 13/02/2013
» In one of the most deadly attacks in Thailand's long-running insurgency, scores of heavily-armed gunmen stormed a southern army base Wednesday, authorities said, leaving 16 militants dead.
Raucous celebrations as Asia greets Year of Snake
AFP, Published on 10/02/2013
» A billion-plus Asians ushered in the Year of the Snake on Sunday with a cacophony of fireworks, after a Chinese televised gala featuring megastars including Celine Dion kicked off a week of festivities.
New Japan PM mulls SE Asia visit
AFP, Published on 08/01/2013
» Tokyo - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to make Southeast Asian countries his first foreign destination, reports said Tuesday, despite an earlier pledge to go to Washington before anywhere else.
Red-shirt protest leaders' trial begins
AFP, Published on 14/12/2012
» BANGKOK - The trial of leaders of the 2010 red-shirt protests on terrorism charges began on Friday, a day after the nation's former premier was charged over his role in the deadly unrest.
Trial of red-shirt leaders postponed
AFP, Published on 29/11/2012
» BANGKOK - A court on Thursday postponed the start of the terrorism trial of 24 leaders of red-shirt protests that rocked Bangkok in 2010 until next month because one of the defendants was ill.
S. Africa jails Thai rhino horn trader
AFP, Published on 09/11/2012
» A Thai national who pled guilty to organising bogus trophy hunts to sell rhino horns on the international black market was sentenced to 40 years in a South African jail on Friday.
Pattani bomb kills six
AFP, Published on 21/09/2012
» At least six people were killed and 40 more wounded on Friday after a car bomb exploded in a packed market in insurgency-hit Pattani province.
Thaksin: Amnesty key to reconciliation
AFP, Published on 18/07/2012
» JAKARTA - Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra Tuesday called for a highly-controversial amnesty, saying it is a "key to reconciliation" and long overdue.
The Lady makes an entrance
AFP, Published on 30/05/2012
» Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Thailand Tuesday for her first trip abroad in more than two decades, ending an era of isolation and cementing her arrival on the global stage.
Iran, Hezbollah 'plotting new anti-Israeli attacks'
AFP, Published on 17/02/2012
» Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia are planning to carry out new anti-Israeli attacks around the world, a senior Israeli official involved in counter-terrorism warned on Friday.