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Activists acquitted of libel, decry 'judicial harassment'
AFP, Published on 29/08/2023
» Three Thai human rights activists were acquitted of criminal defamation on Tuesday, but lamented what they called a hollow victory over the country's restrictive libel laws.
No freedom on the horizon for Bua Noi
AFP, Published on 21/03/2023
» Seven storeys above a shop floor hawking cheap perfume and nylon underwear, the “shopping mall gorilla” Bua Noi sits alone in a cage — her home for 30 years despire a reignited row over her captivity.
Hatching leatherback turtles get helping hand
AFP, Published on 04/03/2023
» PHANGNGA: It is past midnight on a beach in southern Thailand and 12-year-old Prin Uthaisangchai is anxiously staring at a leatherback turtle nest, waiting for scores of the endangered hatchlings to scrabble out from the sand.
Fast and furious no more? Bangkok's infamous No.8 bus
AFP, Published on 30/09/2022
» A "Pink Devil" roars down Bangkok's busy streets, furiously overtaking tuk-tuks, cars and motorbikes, narrowly avoiding a collision as it slows to allow passengers to scramble on before veering back into the capital's hectic traffic. Welcome aboard the No.8 bus.
Red Bull heir still at large 10 years on
AFP, Published on 03/09/2022
» A crashed Ferrari, a dead policeman and a fugitive heir to a multibillion-dollar fortune -- a decade on, Thailand is no closer to resolving one of its most notorious hit-and-run cases.
British man convicted of infamous 'body in suitcase' murder
AFP, Published on 31/05/2022
» A court in Kanchanaburi on Tuesday convicted a British man of the 2014 murder of a woman whose dismembered body was found in a suitcase dumped in a river.
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.
Austria parliament to approve mandatory Covid vaccination
AFP, Published on 20/01/2022
» Austria's parliament on Thursday is expected to approve making Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for adults from next month, becoming the first European country to do so.
Myanmar coup-fuelled poverty pushes thousands to Thailand
AFP, Published on 06/01/2022
» Trekking through dense jungle and mountainous terrain at night to avoid arrest, one couple from Myanmar endured a gruelling journey to Thailand -- grasping for an economic lifeline as jobs dry up in their coup-hit home.
Govt plots sustainable comeback for Phi Phi islands
AFP, Published on 07/12/2021
» KRABI: While travel stopped and the world locked down, in the dazzling blue waters of the idyllic Phi Phi islands, a gentle renaissance was underway.