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Thai Vietjet hopes new U-tapao-Ho Chi Minh route will boost tourism
Post Reporters, Published on 02/12/2019
» Thai Vietjet will add a new route between U-tapao airport and Ho Chi Mihn City that the airline hopes will bring more tourists to Thailand.
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No country for dissidents
News, Editorial, Published on 14/09/2019
» Despite some restrictions on freedom of expression, Thailand was once a place where government dissent was tolerated. It was seen as a safe haven for dissidents in the region, many of whom arrived seeking asylum in a third country under UN Human Rights Commission rules. Od Sayavong, a 34-year-old Lao political activist, was one of them. But that hope was extinguished when he went missing in Bangkok on Aug 26.
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Lao activist vanishes in Bangkok
Published on 07/09/2019
» A Lao man working in Bangkok has disappeared after criticising his country’s government online and in public protests, Lao sources say.
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Vietnam ex-minister took $3m in bribes in MobiFone case: police
Reuters, Published on 03/09/2019
» HANOI: Police in Vietnam have accused a former information minister of taking $3 million in bribes in connection with a controversial deal at state telecoms firm MobiFone, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Shuttlers braced for battles in Basel
Sports, Published on 19/08/2019
» Thailand's Nitchaon Jindapol, Busanan Ongbamrungphan, Kantaphon Wangcharoen and Khosit Phetpradab are all in action on the first day of the BWF World Championships in Basel, Switzerland, today.
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Southeast Asian authorities accused of ‘trading’ dissidents
Published on 22/06/2019
» Three Thai policemen approached Vietnamese refugee Nguyen Van Chung at his home in Bangkok in January and asked him whether he was in touch with another Vietnamese man, Truong Duy Nhat, who had fled to Thailand.
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In search of certainty
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 27/05/2019
» The world has become a more uncertain place, as escalating tensions between the US and China could potentially damage the global economy on a bigger scale than anyone has thought, business leaders warn.
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It is written
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 12/02/2019
» Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh might be best known for his spiritual leadership, poetry and activism, but it's his calligraphic meditation practice that has most impacted the lives of people in search of inner peace through mindfulness.
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Horror of the disappeared
News, Editorial, Published on 11/02/2019
» Cases of the sudden disappearance of political dissidents continue to mount. The latest such case occurred in daytime, inside a well-known Bangkok mall. Truong Duy Nhat, a well-known journalist and blogger in Vietnam, was seized and dragged out of Future Park shopping centre. He had just registered his personal details and applied for asylum through the UN refugee office. His disappearance on Jan 26 has received the usual silence from governments involved.
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Police to probe Vietnamese asylum-seeker disappearance
Reuters, Published on 08/02/2019
» Police will investigate the disappearance of a dissident Vietnamese journalist after a rights group said he may have been abducted from Bangkok where he applied for UN refugee status, a senior immigration official said on Thursday.
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