Thailand

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

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 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.

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.

A gunman murdered more than 30 people Thursday when he opened fire in a childcare center in northeastern Thailand, reports claim. Among the dead are at least 23 children and multiple teachers.

A 27-year-old Nigerian went missing from Phuket, Thailand, in recent days after health officials informed him that he tested positive for monkeypox, Channel News Asia (CNA) reported Friday, noting that the African’s infection marked Thailand’s first-ever monkeypox case.

Thailand’s federal government legalized the medicinal use of marijuana on Thursday, becoming the first country in Asia to do so, the news website Coconuts Bangkok reported.

The Royal Thai Police recently rescued 700 Thais from Chinese criminal gang-run compounds in Cambodia, where Thais lured into financial telephone scams are held against their will in debt bondage, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Commerce has sided with Chinese solar manufacturers who produce in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, denying a request to investigate the manufacturers for evading United States tariffs on Chinese products. 

A company in Thailand has allegedly shipped up to tens of millions of used nitrile gloves — some “visibly soiled … even blood-stained” — to U.S. companies since at least February, according to a CNN investigation published Monday.

Transgender entrepreneur and social media personality Nur Sajat has fled Malaysia after being charged with “insulting Islam” for wearing a hijab to a prayer session at a new building inauguration.

A senior Thai health official said Monday that Thailand will discontinue use of China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine after the current supply of the medication is exhausted this week.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday touted “Phase II clinical trial data” that suggests the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine is “at least 98.9 percent effective in producing antibodies” when administered to children from 3 to 17 years old. Unfortunately, China’s vaccines have a dubious record of actually preventing coronavirus infections. 

Business owners in Thailand declared this week that they intend to open their establishments in defiance of coronavirus lockdown orders imposed on Sunday.

Thai sex workers staged a demonstration in Bangkok on Tuesday to protest the Thailand government’s recent Chinese coronavirus shutdowns, which the sex workers argue have cost them their livelihoods.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Thailand warned Tuesday that it had discovered 110 defective doses of the coronavirus vaccine by Chinese corporation Sinovac Biotech, unusable due to what the media outlet Coconuts described as “lumps of gel” trapped in the dose bottles.

Thai health officials on Wednesday urged people in Thailand to abstain from sexual intercourse, claiming this would help reduce transmission of the Chinese coronavirus, local news outlet Coconuts Bangkok reported on Thursday.

A town in northern Thailand announced Thursday it will offer its residents the chance to win a live calf each week over the next six months if they receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccination.

China’s latest boycott threat is directed at streaming giant Netflix for daring to violate the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) speech codes by carrying a Thai drama that used a Taiwanese flag in one of its advertising posters.

China shut down almost half of the water flow through its southernmost dam on the Mekong River on December 31, reducing water levels downstream by enough for a U.S.-funded satellite monitoring system to notice.

A Thai activist critical of the country’s monarchy claims he recently received explicit photos of the King of Thailand’s mistress and shared some of the photos with the UK’s Daily Mail on Wednesday.

Thai zookeepers tasked a meerkat with breaking the ongoing election deadlock in the United States, the Asian outlet Coconuts reported on Friday. The meerkat reportedly chose Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election.

Ongoing anti-government protests in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, forced authorities to declare a “severe” state of emergency in the city on October 15. The emergency decree allowed the government to order the shutdown of news agencies supporting the protest movement on October 19

Facebook recently blocked access within Thailand to a group with over 1 million members that criticized the country’s monarchy, now the social media site plans to take legal action against the government’s demands that Facebook block the group. Facebook, which has censored posts by President Donald Trump, complains that the Thai government has a “chilling effect on people’s ability to express themselves.”

Thousands of people gathered on Saturday in Bangkok to demand Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha “step down and dissolve the parliament” amid accusations his government’s stringent lockdown measures and “sweeping power” have compromised citizens’ democratic freedoms, local news outlet Coconuts Bangkok reported on Monday.

Thailand’s poor are killing themselves at alarming rates amid a surge in suicides related to the coronavirus pandemic across the country.

Infants born in and around Bangkok are being fitted with mini face shields as an extra protective measure against the Wuhan coronavirus. Other hospitals in Thailand are doing the same, reports revealed this week.

King of Thailand Maha Vajiralongkorn is currently self-isolating from the Chinese coronavirus in a luxury hotel in Germany with an entourage of 20 concubines and female servants, local reports claimed this week.

Buddhist monks in Thailand have recently been spotted wearing custom sanitary masks and shields while collecting alms, in their attempt to protect themselves from the Chinese coronavirus, Thai media reports revealed Tuesday.

A riot broke out at a prison in northeastern Thailand on Sunday after a rumor spread of a Chinese coronavirus outbreak at the facility. On Monday, corrections officials assured the public they had regained control of the prison. However, an

The United States is relying on rubber glove imports from mostly Malaysia and Thailand in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus, with no clear path for manufacturing the critical medical supply in the U.S.