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Mekong River Nations Agree to Tackle Drugs in the Golden Triangle Area
The Mekong MOU has become recognized as a relatively effective framework for achieving some degree of success in combating the transnational threat of illicit drugs. . . CHIANG RAI – Six nations along...
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Murdered After Defending Thailand’s Environment
Mr Samnao Srisongkhram, 38, was shot dead in a field near his village on 25 November 2003 in Lam Nam Phong village, Khon Kaen Province. He was the President of the Lam Nam Phong Environmental...
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Lawyers for File Appeal AGainst Death Sentence for Win Zaw Htun and Zaw Lin
Win Zaw Htun (left) and Zaw Lin, workers from Myanmar accused of killing two British tourists, are brought to a court in Koh Samui . . KOH SAMUI – Lawyers filed an appeal on Monday against the...
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Jen’s English Tips – Reduced Adverb Clauses
Reduced Adverb Clauses An adverb clause can be shortened to an adverb phrase. This can be particularly helpful when you want to express your ideas in a more concise manner. Before you reduce an adverb...
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European Union Gives Thailand Six Months to Clean Up Illegal Fishery
Thai officials inspect fishing boats docked at the compound of Pusaka Benjina Resources fishing company . . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan told reporters yesterday that the...
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Thai Man Tries Hanging Himself after Admitting to Raping of Eight Year-Old...
The man was sent to a Trang Hospital after being found hanging by a cord around his neck in a police cell on Tuesday morning. . . TRANG – Pol Lt Gen Veerapong Chuenpakdi, chief of Police Region 9, told...
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Fire Safety Stepped Up Following Dormitory Fire in Chiang Rai
Malawian Saw-wa, 33, (L) who lost her daughter, cries near a burnt building at the Pitakkiat Wittaya School in Wiang Pa Pao District – Photo May 23, 2016 – Athit Perawongmetha . . CHIANG RAI –...
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Retired Thai Teacher Gets Suspended Jail Sentence for Giving Flowers to...
Thai Lawyer Winyat Chartmontree at left and 77-year-old Ajarn Preecha Kaewbanpaew in front of Bangkok’s military court Monday – Photo: Sasiwan Mokkhasen . . BANGKOK – Retired teacher (Ajarn) Preecha...
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Chinese Military Scholar Denounces Taiwan’s President for Being Unmarried
Tawian’s first female president Tsai Ing-Wen: Democracy campaigner, Gay rights champion and cat-lover . . BEIJING – An article by a Chinese military official suggesting that Taiwan’s new president was...
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Thailand’s Junta Canvasses Support for Controversial Charter ahead of August...
Thailand Election Commission’s chairman Supachai Somcharoen casts an example ballot at an event to kick off the distribution of five million copies of a controversial military-written draft...
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Italian and Romanian “Wanted by Interpol” to be Deported from Thailand
Mauro Vincenzo Saguato, 65, (left) an Italian national wanted by Interpol for embezzlement and Marian Nicolau, 36, the accused leader of a Romanian skimming gang,appear at a media briefing at the...
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DSI Arrests Japanese Pedophile in Chiang Mai
Forensics officers take saliva swabs from Japanese suspect Teruaki Matsubara, 49, (seated) after his arrest by Department of Special Investigation officers (Photo by Cheewin Sattha) . . CHIANG MAI –...
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Thai Man Plays Robin Hood Handing out Free Methamphetamine’s
Prachuap Kanphet, 41, Pannarai Pinyophol, 25, and Sompong Thayapol, 47, were apprehended and 470,000 yaba tablets. . . AYUTTHAYA – A 47 year-old Thai man who played Robin Hood handing out...
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President Barack Obama Say’s G-7 Leaders Rattled Over Donald Trump
President Barack Obama touched on the rancorous U.S. presidential race at a press conference Thursday from the G-7 summit in Japan . . TOKYO – President Barack Obama at press conference Thursday from...
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Thailand: Nine-Foot Python Grabs onto Man Penis While On Toilet
The 38-year-old needed stitches but medical staff say that he should make a full recovery. . . BANGKOK – Mr Atthaporn Boonmarkchuai, 38, of Chachoengsao province is recovering in hospital after he was...
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It’s Official Western Sydney Wanderers Striker Mark Bridge Coming to Chiang...
Mark Bridge was one of the few remaining foundation players remaining at the Wanderers . . CHIANG RAI – The chairman of Chiang Rai United Mitti Tiyapairat has confirmed his club have reached an...
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Comatose Commonwealth Silver Medalist Flown to Bangkok Hospital from Vietnam
Inglis won silver in the women’s 57kg event at the Commonwealth Games two years ago. . . BANGKOK – Commonwealth Games silver medallist Stephanie Inglis who is in a coma after a motorcycle accident in...
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Red Bull Heir Vorayudh Yoovidhaya a No Show at Bangkok Court
Red Bull heir, Vorayudh Yoovidhaya, failed to meet prosecutors Wednesday . . BANGKOK – Chief of the Department of Southern Bangkok Criminal Litigation, Sutthi Kittisupaporn, told reporters today that...
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School Staff Face Possible Gross Negligence Charges Over Dormitory Fire that...
Forensic experts inspect a burnt building at the Pitakkiat Wittaya School. Photo Athit Perawongmetha . . CHIANG RAI – Deputy Commissioner of Provincial Police Region 5, Pol Maj Gen Songtham said police...
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Chinese Officials React after Photo’s of Kids Climbing Cliffside Ladder to...
Children wearing their school backpacks climb on a cliff using a bamboo ladder on their way home from school in Zhaojue county, southwest China’s Sichuan province. SICHUAN – Just to get home from...
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