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.
Contents: China’s Mekong River dams criticized for affecting other countries’ livelihoods; In policy shift, US sides with Indonesia in South China Sea over Natuna Sea
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.
China’s government will reportedly ban dog meat from being sold at this year’s annual and barbaric Yulin festival. However, it is likely cats will be served instead, and animal rights activists note that prior alleged bans on dog meat have usually not prevented the Yulin festival from occurring.
The language of “dramatic increases” and “soaring crime rates” common to public policy discussions seems inadequate for the meth epidemic in Bangladesh, where drug seizures in rural Islamic communities have increased by eighty thousand percent over the past nine years.
A Thai man filmed himself murdering his 11-month-old child on Facebook Live before committing suicide.
Actress Lindsay Lohan hit the beach in Thailand last week in a “burkini” swimsuit, as she vacationed in the Southeast Asian country to take a break from her refugee advocacy and studies of Islamic scripture.
California’s unusually wet winter may trigger a new gold rush, as floodwaters shake loose old mineral deposits from mines, riverbeds and dams.
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(AFP) – Following the death of Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has become the world longest-reigning monach at 64 years. King Bhumibol, who died on Thursday, reigned for 70 years after assuming the throne at the age
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Kathriya Louis is gazing out of the window of the second floor condo she shares with her family in Thailand when a military vehicle pulls up. Pausing only to take a quick picture on her cell phone, she quickly withdraws inside, and the family sit in silence, hoping not to be the latest detainees shipped to Thailand’s immigration centers.
Christian asylum seekers in Thailand, fearing a fresh crackdown by Thai authorities following a spate of deadly bomb blasts across the country, have appealed for the West to intervene in their plight.
Contents: Thailand shocked by 13 bombings in five southern provinces; Any of Thailand’s three major ethnic groups could be the perpetrators
Thai authorities have ruled out international terrorists as the perpetrators of 11 coordinated bombings that rocked some of the most popular resort cities and beach towns in Thailand’s Islamic south, killing at least four locals and wounding another 36, including up to 11 foreigners.
Some 10 bomb blasts during the night rocked five coastal resort areas along Thailand’s southern coast, including Hua Hin and Phuket, leaving at least four dead and dozens wounded.
At least one person was killed and 12 others injured, including foreigners, when two bombs went off at a tourist hotspot in Thailand.
Contents: Arab League in chaos as it fails to address Arab existential threats; ASEAN in chaos as it fails to address South China Sea threats; France’s François Hollande declares war on ISIS after terror attack kills priest; Turkey fears that Gulen will flee the United States
Contents: ASEAN makes humiliating South China Sea reversal under pressure from China; Obama administration reevaluates plans for Afghanistan troop withdrawal
(AFP) – Thai police have broken up a major fake passport ring led by an Iranian known as “The Doctor” which sent thousands of passports to Middle Eastern customers trying to enter Europe, officers said Wednesday. The kingdom has long
