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Students fire up for Michigan marijuana degree course
Associated Press, Published on 14/10/2017
» MARQUETTE, Michigan: A US university is offering an unusual degree -- in marijuana.
'Pai Dao Din' on trial for Facebook share
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» KHON KAEN - The provincial court on Thursday began a closed-door trial of an activist law student arrested for sharing a BBC article about the king on Facebook.
Arrested Thai activist getting S. Korean human rights award
Associated Press, Published on 18/05/2017
» SEOUL -- A Thai law student arrested for sharing a critical article about the country's new king that was posted on Facebook is this year's winner of South Korea's most prestigious human rights award.
Arabic lesson in school ignites anger
Associated Press, Published on 20/12/2015
» VERONA, Virginia — With Americans already on edge after the attacks in Paris and Southern California, a teacher's lesson on Islam in a Virginia school sparked an angry meeting of outraged parents that mushroomed into a national denunciation of the educator in the form of thousands of angry emails and social media postings.
Teacher arrested after tip-off on obscene photos
Associated Press, Published on 20/09/2015
» Thai police have arrested a former primary school teacher who they say admitted to having sexually abused 24 schoolgirls after a tip-off from United States authorities.
Video of Thai navy cadets smashing phones stirs criticism
Associated Press, Published on 18/09/2015
» When the Royal Thai Navy says cadets can't bring phones to training, it means it.
Isan villagers say gas drilling sickens them, ruins crops
Associated Press, Published on 14/09/2015
» More than 100 students and villagers crowded into a Northeast college forum to hear about American gas companies conducting drilling operations in their region. A lieutenant colonel and dozens of soldiers and police officers followed them in.
170 kids on their own to arrive in Indonesia
Associated Press, Published on 25/05/2015
» KUALA CANGKOI - It was just the two of them, brother and sister, out on the open ocean with hundreds of other desperate migrants, mostly Rohingya Muslims fleeing their homes in Myanmar. For nearly three months, the siblings comforted each other when rolling waves thrashed their boat, when their empty bellies ached and when they were beaten for trying to stand up to stretch their legs.
Displaced Muslims flock to madrassa
Associated Press, Published on 21/11/2013
» SITTWE, Myanmar - A year after Buddhist mobs forced almost all members of the minority Rohingya Muslim community from this northwestern Myanmar city, creating a state-sanctioned sectarian divide, thousands of children while away their long, empty days in dusty displacement camps.
Police kill Boston bomb suspect, hunt for second
Associated Press, Published on 19/04/2013
» Police killed one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects in a shootout early Friday and pursued a chaotic street-to-street manhunt for his accomplice, officials said.