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Thailand’s Six Legged Livestock
A woman sells fried grasshoppers and other fried insects at a stand at a gas station in Nakhon Ratchasima province, northeastern Thailand. Six-legged livestock, as UN Food and Agriculture Organization...
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Insurgents Kill Muslim 28 Year Old School Teacher in Pattani, Thailand
The homemade roadside bomb exploded around 8:15am near a bridge in Bang Kro village of Tambon Tha Rua. PATTANI – Thailand’s south awoke to fresh violence Thursday morning, as the military government...
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Thailand Super Rich Join Post-Coup (Basel III) Rush, Thai Banks Offer $1.6...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s millionaires are helping their military leaders revive lending as legal and political certainty spurs the super-rich to buy riskier bank debt. Thai banks have offered $1.6...
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Thailand Backslides to Trade Deficit at $1.1 Billion
Stacks of containers at the Port of Bangkok in Thailand, which reported a decline in exports in July. BANGKOK—Thailand’s trade balance returned to a deficit after exports unexpectedly declined in July,...
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European Companies Raise Concerns Over Thai Trial of British Activist Andy Hall
Andy Hall and his team with TFFA and TTIA representatives in front of the Prakanong Court. BANGKOK – Business has joined the international outcry over Thai company’s lawsuits against human rights...
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Photo Exhibition “Mysterious Mekong” By Photographer Reinhard Hohler Opens in...
The unique collection of photos is featuring the Mekong River, the longest river in Southeast Asia, which is more and more threatened by the building of dams and industrial development schemes....
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Thailand’s Court Ruling Furthers Impunity
Former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and former deputy PM Suthep Thaugsuban BANGKOK – A Bangkok criminal court’s dismissal of charges against former Thai leaders for their role in the violent...
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Thailand to Help Myanmar Conserve Ancient Cities
A woman cleans brickwork on the wall of the ancient royal palace at the center of the city of Sri Ksetra, near the banks of the Irrawaddy River in Pegu Division. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) - -...
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Singha Trail Running Festival, Scheduled for September 20
The Family Fun Run (3km) is very much part of this convivial event. It is open to all free of charge. CHIANG RAI – AMA events and Singha Corporation have announced that the inaugural Singha Trail...
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Australian Woman Joanna Sherwell Successfully Adopts Dog from Chiang Mai
Joanna Sherwell visits GAWS with her adopted Thailand dog Sunny. Pic: Alison Wynd GEELONG -A well traveled pooch has seen more of the world than most canines after his Drysdale adopter decided she...
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Terry Stark, Founder of Carolina Skiffs, Dead at 68 in Cambodia
Terry Stark pursued a simple but adventurous life. CAMBODIA – US National Terry Stark, a restless genius who never finished high school but invented a simple, every man’s skiff that grew into the...
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Prime Minister Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha Announces War on Corruption
Prime Minister Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha BANGKOK – Prime Minister Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha reiterated strong determination to fight corruption in all his announced eleven reform sectors with assurance that...
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Two Arrested for Distributing Leaflets Demanding Renewed Legal Action Against...
Murder charges against Abhisit and his then number two Suthep Thaugsuban linked to the bloody crackdown on rival “Red Shirt” supporters, were unexpectedly dropped last Thursday BANGKOK – Thai police...
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Premier General Prayuth Chan-ocha Stacks Cabinet with Military Officers
Nearly a third of the 32-strong Cabinet are senior military officers - - BANGKOK – Thailand’s coup leader and newly appointed Premier General Prayuth Chan-ocha on Sunday (Aug 31) received royal...
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Swede Lief Christer Left Homeless in Bangkok after Being ‘Swindled’ by a Thai...
The pitiful existence of former chef Lief Christer, 45, became public after images of him sleeping on a footpath in the Soi Nana (Sukhumvit Soi 4) area went viral on the internet earlier this week....
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Heavy Rains Cause Flooding in Central Chiang Rai Province
Parts of Phahonyothin road between Mueang and Mae Chan districts has been heavily submerged by high and strong floods - - CHIANG RAI – Thailand’s Meteorological Department has issued rain warnings to...
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83 Percent of Myanmar Migrants in Thailand Want to Return Home
Migrant workers from Myanmar work in an agricultural field in Chiang Mai. – See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/most-myanmar-migrants-thailand-want-go-home#sthash.w1g6Se9B.dpuf - - CHIANG...
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Misery on the Mekong
Den Kroolong got the jolting news in a 6am phone call at his home in northern Thailand one day in December last year. His boat had disappeared. A new front line in the global battle over water emerges...
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Human Rights Report Slams Thailand for Violating Childrens Rights
Children, part of a group of asylum seekers, sit in a truck as Thai immigration officials escort them to a court in Songkhla, southern Thailand, BANGKOK - A scathing Human Rights Report has been...
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Human Rights Groups Allege Supression of Freedoms in Thailand
Police officers inside the Foreign Correspondents Club to deliver letters to human rights panelists. Photo Steve Herman BANGKOK – Thailand’s military and police have suppressed the release of an...
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