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Srettha Thavisin rejects graft claims, promises poverty action
AFP, Published on 18/08/2023
» Pheu Thai Party's prime ministerial candidate Srettha Thavisin says he wants to tackle poverty and inequality, as he fends off corruption allegations ahead of a confirmation vote next week.
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Fishing crews fear 5-year recovery after oil spill
AFP, Published on 31/01/2022
» The nightly armada of bobbing green lights from squid boats has all but disappeared near the site of an oil spill in the Gulf of Thailand, as devastated local crews brace for lost income and damaged fish stocks.
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UN condemns Thailand for deporting third Cambodian refugee
AFP, Published on 23/11/2021
» The United Nations refugee agency has condemned Thailand for deporting a third Cambodian refugee in two weeks, after a former female politician was sent back to a Phnom Penh jail.
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Asia virus latest: India curbs foreign takeovers; Japanese tulips snipped
AFP, Published on 19/04/2020
» Here are the latest developments in Asia related to the novel coronavirus pandemic:
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Burn or spurn? What to do with Western waste
AFP, Published on 05/06/2019
» PARIS: Western countries must increasingly deal with hard to dispose of plastics because China and many southeastern Asian countries no longer want them.
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Chinese in Thailand, around world welcome Year of the Pig
AFP, Published on 05/02/2019
» HONG KONG: Chinese communities began welcoming the Year of the Pig on Tuesday, ushering in the Lunar New Year with prayers, family feasts and shopping sprees after embarking on the world's largest annual migration.
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Bricked in by poverty, Cambodia's farmers fight debt bondage
AFP, Published on 02/01/2019
» PHNOM PENH: Bopha should be in school but instead toils seven days a week in a searing brick kiln on the outskirts of Phnom Penh -- a 14-year-old trapped in debt bondage in a boom industry preying on the poverty of Cambodia's farmers.
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Myanmar workers arrive debt-laden in Thailand
AFP, Published on 04/10/2018
» YANGON: A "mafia" of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom's notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say.
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Beware of fraudsters, Chilean miners tell Thai boys
AFP, Published on 13/07/2018
» SANTIAGO, Chile: Guard against exploitation: that's the message Chilean miners have offered the 12 Thai boys and their football coach following the harrowing ordeal of spending 18 days trapped in a cave.
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India's rural millions pay price of cash ban
AFP, Published on 18/11/2016
» BULANDSHAHR, INDIA - Indian farmer Zakir Khan should be sowing his winter crops now. Instead, he is stuck at home after the government's shock move to pull high-value notes out of circulation left him with no money to pay for seeds -- or feed his family.
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