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Three killed in shoot-out in Narathiwat
AFP, Published on 21/01/2023
» NARATHIWAT: Three people were killed in a jungle shoot-out between government forces and separatist rebels in this southern border province of Narathiwat, police said Saturday.
UN agency asks Thailand for 'urgent access' to Myanmar refugees
AFP, Published on 20/12/2021
» The UN's refugee agency on Monday called for Thailand to allow them "urgent access" to more than 3,000 Myanmar refugees who fled to the kingdom to escape fighting in conflict-wracked Karen state.
Two Thai workers killed in rocket attack on Israel
AFP, Published on 18/05/2021
» Two Thai workers were killed in southern Israel by rocket fire from Gaza on Tuesday, police said, raising to 12 the death toll in the Jewish state since the conflict broke out.
Myanmar insurgents say they razed military base near Thai border
AFP, Published on 27/04/2021
» A prominent ethnic rebel group attacked and burned down a military base in eastern Myanmar near the border with Mae Hong Son province early Tuesday morning, an official from the group said.
The 97km that frustrate China's mastery of the Mekong
AFP, Published on 10/01/2020
» CHIANG KHONG: Ninety-seven kilometres of rocks in Thai waters stand between Beijing and dominance over the Mekong, a mighty river that feeds millions as it threads south from the Tibetan plateau through five countries before emptying into the South China Sea.
Thai elephants 'broken' for lucrative animal tourism
AFP, Published on 23/12/2019
» SURIN: Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food -- many Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as 'sanctuaries' to cruelty-conscious travellers.
Pope meets Supreme Patriarch on visit promoting religious peace
AFP, Published on 21/11/2019
» Pope Francis met with the Supreme Patriarch on Thursday in a gilded temple on the first full day of his Asia tour aimed at promoting religious harmony.
Seven suspects arrested for Yala attacks
AFP, Published on 09/11/2019
» Seven suspected rebels have been arrested in the South, authorities said Saturday, as a manhunt sweeps through remote villages for gunmen who killed 15 in an ambush considered the deadliest attack in the yearslong insurgency.
Protectionism slammed as Asean leaders rally to trade pact
AFP, Published on 23/06/2019
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha made an impassioned plea against protectionism on Sunday at a meeting of Southeast Asian leaders where the fallout from the US-China tariff war has dominated talks.
Illegal logging in Brazil turning Amazon into a powder keg
AFP, Published on 24/04/2019
» ALTAMIRA, Brazil: A rifle resting on his shoulder, Tatji Arara looks despondent as he steps over the trunks of huge trees felled by timber traffickers in the heart of Brazil's Amazon rainforest, now the scene of numerous land conflicts.