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Chiang Rai One of Three cities in Thailand receive Asean Environmentally...
Chiang Rai received the Asean Environmentally Sustainable Cities Award 2014 for its excellence in Green Area Management, CHIANG RAI – Three cities in Thailand received awards for excellence in...
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United States Suspends More Assistance to Thailand
The United States swiftly rebuked Thailand’s military after it defied warnings not to intervene in the political chaos. WASHINGTON – The United States said on Tuesday it has suspended more assistance...
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Reputed Russian Crime Boss Alexander Matusov, aka Basmach Arrested In...
Alexander Matusov, 52, was arrested in front of a superstore in Chon Buri province on Monday. CHON BURI – Alexander Matusov, aka Basmach, the alleged leader of the Shchyolkovo organized crime gang,...
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Thailand: A Democracy at Risk – US Department of State (Press Release)
- - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific Washington, DC – June...
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Thailand Seafood Industry Denies Human Trafficking Allegations
Migrant workers separate freshly caught fish by size at a fish market in Samut Sakhon Province, west of Bangkok, BANGKOK — Thailand reels in more than $7 billion annually as the world’s third largest...
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Thailand Urges U.S. to Reconsider Plan to Relocate Cobra Gold Military Exercise
U.S. government considering moving next year’s Cobra Gold exercise out of Thailand following the May 22 coup BANGKOK – Thailand called on the United States on Wednesday to reconsider moving the Cobra...
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Resistance Builds for a Junta that Conspired with the Opposition
Thai Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha (C) is accompanied by his officers as he addresses reporters at the Royal Thai Army Headquarters in Bangkok - BANGKOK – The Thai junta justifies its coup last...
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Thailand Working to “Win over Investors”
The Board of Investment (BOI) chaired by general Prayuth Chan-Ocha has approved 18 projects worth 120bn baht in a move seen as a positive step to further improve the investment climate in Thailand....
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Two Tremors Felt in Phan and Mae Lao Chiang Rai
A Buddhist monk checks a Buddha statue that was damaged by an earthquake at the Udomwaree temple in Chiang Rai, in northern Thailand May 6, 2014. CHIANG RAI -The Seismological Bureau has reported that...
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Expelled Monk Gets 11 Years for Child Rape
Phra Mahasanan Atipatto, 64, was hiding in Phayao province when the police apprehended him, following complaint from the girl that she had sexually assaulted her at his former temple, Wat Bang Bua, in...
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American Emily Potter 27, Found Dead at Koh Samui Resort
Ms. Potter appeared to have passed away while she was laying on a sofa on her room’s private balcony KOH SAMUI – American Emily Potter has reportedly been found dead at a 5-star resort in Samui...
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Thailand Posts Weak Trade Data
Migrant workers from Myanmar sort shrimp at a processing center in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Zuma Press BANGKOK—Thailand reported weak trade activities in May due to lower farm-product shipments and...
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Thailand to Monitor Media in Broader Crackdown on Criticism
Adul Saengsingkaew, deputy head of the National Council of Peace and Order, said the military would monitor reports that were false or posed a threat to national security. BANGKOK – Thailand’s...
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Thailand Green Lights Larger Warning Labels on Cigarettes
A Thai vendor waits for customers near a case displaying packs of cigarettes on Friday, June 27, 2014. A new regulation now requires that these packs be 85 per cent covered by health warnings. (AP...
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Western Companies React to Migrant Slave Labor Accusations in Thailand
A Thai employer, left, monitors migrant workers from Burma working on his fishing boat at a port in the town of Mahachai near Bangkok on March 11, 2010. (Photo: Reuters / Damir Sagolj) THAILAND – A...
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Cambodian PM says more than 250,000 workers Returned from Thailand, were...
Thai authorities deny deporting any workers who were legally employed. About 400,000 Cambodians were believed to have been working in Thailand, most illegally. PHNOM PENH – Cambodia’s Prime Minister...
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4 Absurdly Harmless Acts Now Criminalized by Thailand’s Junta
Reading “1984” in public: The young sandwich-eating Thai was also reading 1984, the George Orwell masterpiece about a civil servant who tries to rebel against a dystopian tyrannical state. BANGKOK —...
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Chiang Rai Experiences 4.6-Magnitude Quake in Mae Lao District
According to an announcement by the Seismological Bureau of the Thai Meteorological Department, the epicenter of the quake was located 9 kilometers deep in Mae Lao district CHIANG RAI – An earthquake...
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Canadian Rev.Kevin Fast Pulls Airbus A320-200 at Don-Muang Airport in Bangkok
BANGKOK – Talk about amazing strength! Rev. Kevin Fast from Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, successfully pulled a giant Airbus A320-200 weighing 55 tons at Don-Muang Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, June 27,...
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Did a Fortune-Teller Predict Thailand’s Military Coup?
Religious rite. Air Force commander-in-chief ACM Chalit Pukpasuk, left, in a religious rite performed by fortune-teller Warin Buawiratlert in Chiang Mai CHIANG MAI – In Thailand, the politicians have...
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