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Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc, accompanied by an entourage of Vietnamese business executives, announced an emergency trip to Washington on Wednesday — the day President Donald Trump revealed his “Liberation Day” tariff schedule which included a 46 percent duty on imports from Vietnam.

The death toll following a violent earthquake in Southeast Asia on Friday continues to rise as officials are still assessing the damage the quake left behind, CBS News reported on Sunday.

Two violent earthquakes rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, causing buildings in the Thai capital Bangkok to sway and collapse and prompting evacuations across the city, as well as in neighboring Myanmar. Bangkok police say a high-rise building under construction collapsed when a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit the Thai capital midday on Friday, and possible casualties are not yet known.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake slammed Myanmar and nearby Thailand on Friday, and video shows the moments buildings collapsed and people ran away in fear.

The United States on Thursday condemned Thailand for deporting 40 Uyghurs to China, despite fears they could face imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.

Hamas terrorists called out to workers from Thailand in their native tongue to lure them out of hiding, only to murder them or take them hostage during the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.

Three Israeli hostages and five Thai hostages were freed by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza on Thursday amid shocking scenes of a mob of Palestinians shoving two of the hostages as they were transferred to the Red Cross.

Satellite images of the Ream naval base in Cambodia reveal what appear to be two 1,500-tonne Chinese corvettes docked alongside a Chinese-built pier that could handle much bigger warships, seemingly validating concerns that Cambodia would allow the Chinese to turn Ream into a base for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) despite constant denials from the Cambodian government.

Hundreds of Chinese merchants who supply products to global discount shopping app Temu stormed the company offices in Guangzhou on Monday, waving protest signs and chanting slogans accusing the company of cheating its suppliers.

Thailand is gearing up to give about 50 million citizens digital cash handouts that officials hope will boost the lagging economy.

Assange’s wife shared tracking details and wrote: “Please follow [the jet], we need all eyes on his flight in case something goes wrong.”

Thailand is now the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, and weddings are expected to begin taking place in October.

The government of Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is making good on its promise to reclassify cannabis as an illegal narcotic.

Prapaporn Choeiwadkoh, a 45-year-old politician from the Sukhothai province of Thailand, was suspended by the Thai Democrat Party this week after her 64-year-old husband caught her in bed with the couple’s 24-year-old adopted son Phra Maha, a Buddhist monk. The scandal has become a social media sensation across Southeast Asia, especially in China, where developments in the case are followed as closely as any soap opera.

Customs agents in Thailand found a trove of endangered animals hidden in luggage on Wednesday at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport.

An anti-tank guided missile fired by Hezbollah terrorists struck an orchard near the Israeli border community of Margaliot, medics and the military said Monday, with Thailand workers suffering casualties.

Cholnan Srikaew, the health minister of Thailand, said on Thursday that recreational marijuana will be banned by the end of 2024. Thailand was the first Southeast Asian country to legalize medical marijuana in 2018, followed by recreational use in 2022.

A 63-year-old German man died mid-flight from Bangkok after he began to spit up “litres of blood”, fellow passengers said.

BANGKOK — Members of a rock band that has been critical of Moscow’s war in Ukraine remained locked up Tuesday in a Thai immigration jail, fearful that they could be deported to Russia as a reported plan to let them fly to safety in Israel was apparently suspended.

Two of the 23 Thai hostages released by Hamas terrorists late November have spoken of their treatment and revealed “Israelis had it worse.” The pair spoke to the German outlet Deutsche Welle (DW) and told of days of agony and torture

Twelve hostages released by Hamas — nine Israeli womaen, one Israeli female teenager, and two male Thai workers — are safe in Israel after a harrowing transfer in which they were jeered by a crowd of Hamas terrorists and supporters as they left Gaza.

Thai farmworkers who were taken as hostages to Gaza and released Saturday evening were “distraught” to hear about what happened to the rest of their colleagues at Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas terror attack on October 7.

The profound shockwave emanated by a sudden and violent attack by Hamas terrorists against Israel over the weekend is reverberating across the world, leaving a tragic tapestry of loss, abduction, and injury that has affected numerous nations from six continents, each mourning and frantically searching for its citizens targeted in the “savage” onslaught.

An American teacher and popular Tik Tok creator was arrested in Thailand after allegedly having weekly sexual encounters with a 16-year-old girl.

The Wall Street Journal reports the flow of tourists and business travelers to China has slowed to a trickle.

A fight broke out during a hockey game in Thailand, and one player raised everyone’s eyebrow as his team waded into the melee.

The dismembered body of a missing German businessman was found in a freezer inside a house in southern Thailand, police said Tuesday.

The Fourth of July is a celebration of the most successful revolution in the history of mankind. By any objective measure, the rebellious colonies that broke away from the British empire in 1776 were more successful in forming an enduring new nation than other rebels and separatists throughout history. Indeed, the United States of America was soon put to its own rebellion test and the Union endured, surviving one of the most devastating wars ever fought.

A woman underwent an emergency leg amputation at a Thailand airport after an accident Thursday involving a moving walkway, reports said. 

A man survived after his bungee cord snapped while he was visiting an adventure park in Pattaya, Thailand, recently.

A 17-year-old, who was known for being one of those rescued from a cave in Thailand in 2018, was found unconscious in his dormitory.

The engine on a flight from Thailand to Moscow went up in flames while trying to takeoff a runway on Saturday.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma, once a flamboyant celebrity and the richest man in China until he criticized Chinese Communist Party economic policies, left his low-profile refuge in Japan this week to visit Thailand and learn about farming, fishing, and kickboxing. Chinese state media hinted over the weekend that Ma is being forced out of Alibaba’s parent company, the Ant Group, so he will have plenty of time to work on his hobbies.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj was freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after serving most of his sentence for killing American and Canadian backpackers and was taken to the airport for a flight back to Paris, his attorney said.

Police in Thailand are reportedly investigating allegations that a CNN crew violated restrictions on the crime scene and inappropriately entered the nursery where a former police officer killed dozens of children and adults with a gun and knife last Thursday.

Over 30 people were killed Thursday during a shooting spree that included an attack on a northeastern Thailand childcare center despite Thailand’s “restrictive” gun controls, which include a ban on semiautomatic rifles.