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AFP, Published on 10/07/2022
» US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday hailed Thailand's role in the renewed US push in Southeast Asia, a key area of competition with China, on a trip where he also sought new ideas on how to restore democracy in Myanmar.
AFP, Published on 15/02/2022
» Interpol has issued two "red notice" arrest warrants for a pair of Canadians over the suspected murder of an Indian gangster outside a luxury villa on Phuket island.
AFP, Published on 31/03/2021
» Some 50 Myanmar refugees who fled air strikes to neighbouring Mae Hong Son province "voluntarily" returned across the border Wednesday, Thai authorities said, despite reports of continued bombings in their home state.
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.
AFP, Published on 24/09/2018
» Thailand's junta chief caricatured as a "lucky cat" with a paw raised to rake in money, or his face crossed out by a thick, red line -- daring graffiti is cropping up across Bangkok as the city's walls become a canvas for rare political scorn.
AFP, Published on 25/09/2018
» PARIS: Scientists said on Monday they had succeeded for the first time in wiping out an entire population of malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the lab using a gene editing tool to programme their extinction.
AFP, Published on 16/12/2016
» WASHINGTON - New satellite imagery shows China has apparently installed "significant" defensive weapons on a series of artificial islands it built in the South China Sea, a US-based think tank said Wednesday.
AFP, Published on 17/11/2016
» LIMA - Top world leaders meet from Thursday to try to save their cherished free trade accords from feared extinction under US president-elect Donald Trump.
AFP, Published on 15/09/2016
» BANGKOK - An inquest has ruled that security forces gunned down four unarmed Muslim men in a high-profile case in the deep South, a lawyer said Wednesday.
AFP, Published on 29/07/2016
» For a few thousand dollars "The Doctor" opened doors to the world, supplying pristine fake passports to gangsters and rebels, refugees and migrant workers -- all from an unassuming, scruffy house in the Bangkok suburbs.