Thailand

BANGKOK (AP) — A popular Thai music act has apologized after one of its members wore a shirt showing the swastika flag of Nazi Germany during a performance.

SYDNEY — Four women held a topless protest in Sydney on Thursday to support runaway Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, as Australia began considering her bid to settle in the country as a refugee.

BANGKOK — Thailand’s immigration police chief met Tuesday with officials of the Saudi Embassy in Bangkok, and said the officials told him they are satisfied with how the case of a young Saudi woman who claims to be fleeing her abusive family has been handled.

A young Saudi woman who has renounced Islam and remains stranded at Bangkok’s main airport after fleeing her “abusive” family has been assured by Thai police she will not be deported.

The enormous popularity of a rap song criticizing the Thai military junta suggests the public is growing exasperated with the military takeover. Thailand’s rulers are contemplating a crackdown that could get ugly fast.

Contents: Thailand and Thaksin Shinawatra prepare for new national elections; The shadow of Thaksin Shinawatra; Brief generational history of Thailand

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha achieved what seemed impossible in modern soccer: Gaining promotion with a modest club and winning the English Premier League title within two years.

The government of Malaysia confirmed on Thursday the release of 11 Uighur refugees who entered the country illegally after breaking out of a Thai immigrant detention center, allowing them to travel to Turkey as they had requested.

In a bizarre Twitter outburst, Elon Musk implied that one of the heroes of the Thai cave rescue, who criticized Musk’s submarine as a “PR Stunt,” is a pedophile.

The producers behind Christian films like “God’s Not Dead” are already in Thailand with plans to develop a movie about the 18-day saga of the soccer team trapped in a flooded cave.

U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump rejoiced Tuesday in the completed rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a deep cave in Thailand.

While Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been tweeting regularly about his plans to help in the rescue of the Thai soccer team stranded in a cave, on-site rescuers have not been impressed with Musk’s solutions, stating that his “mini-submarine” is “not practical.”

An aide to the Thai Navy SEAL commander says four boys were brought out of the flooded cave in northern Thailand on Monday.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday morning that the United States is “working very closely” with Thailand’s government to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach who have been trapped in a cave.

The pressure is mounting to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped deep inside a flooded gave in north Thailand.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is sending a team of engineers to save a soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand.

Rescuers working to save a Thai youth soccer team trapped deep inside a flooded cave are using an Israeli technology to maintain communication with the 12 boys and their coach.

TEL AVIV – Israeli rescuers have volunteered in the effort to save 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand in an ordeal that is into its tenth day.  

MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — Rescuers found all 12 boys and their soccer coach alive deep inside a partially flooded cave in northern Thailand late Monday, more than a week after they disappeared and touched off a desperate search that drew international help and captivated the nation.

The Chinese state newspaper Global Times made the argument Monday that Western-style multi-party democracy has no place in Asia, citing numerous examples of Asian heads of state arrested for corruption. The newspaper does not mention the tens of thousands arrested on corruption charges under Communist Party leader Xi Jinping in China.

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Thai police have arrested a Russian national wanted by the United States on suspicion of cyber-related crimes, it has emerged.

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An American tourist was taken into custody Thursday after allegedly walking around a Thai airport naked and throwing feces at airport employees.

Hundreds of monkeys took to the streets of a Thai city when fireworks caused them to flee from the temple where they live.

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Contents: Thailand’s former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra flees to Dubai; Collapse of Thailand’s democracy; Brief generational history of Thailand

Officials in Fresno, California, are looking to enlist help from the U.S. military to retrieve the bodies of two Thai students out of a vehicle that plunged 500 feet off a cliff from Highway 180, near Kings Canyon National Park, and into the Kings River on July 26.

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A man is accused of attempting to bite a flight attendant before jumping from the aircraft at a North Carolina airport Thursday.