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Asian shares mixed
Asian shares were mixed on Monday, the Associated Press reported. Hong Kong's Hang Seng gave up 0.5% to 19,815.03, and the Shanghai Composite index lost 1.1% to 3,231.28. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 added 0.4% to 27,501.60, and the Kospi in Seoul shed 0.3% (...)

27 - 03 - 2023
91-year-old Thai women earns bachelor's degree
A 91-year old woman in Thailand has earned a college degree after spending more than 10 years studying for it and has received her diploma from the country's king. Public television broadcaster Thai PBS says Kimlan Jinakul was granted the Bachelor (...)

10 - 08 - 2017
25 dead, 1 million affected by floods in southern Thailand
At least 25 people have died in severe flooding in southern Thailand since New Year's Day, leaving businesses paralyzed, schools closed and thousands of tourists stranded, the government said Tuesday. Twelve provinces have been hit by unseasonal (...)

10 - 01 - 2017
Crocodile bites French tourist at Thai park
A French tourist who tried to have her picture taken with a crocodile in Thailand was injured when the reptile snapped at her when she got too close. The woman, who is in her 40s, suffered a severe bite wound to her leg Sunday at the Khao Yai (...)

02 - 01 - 2017
Van, truck collide, on Thai highway, killing 25
Authorities say a van and a pickup collided and caught fire on a highway in eastern Thailand, killing 25 people. The public transit van lost control and crossed the grass median, colliding with the pickup truck going in the opposite direction Monday (...)

02 - 01 - 2017
McDonald's in Thailand blames rat sighting on local sewers
McDonald's in Thailand has apologized to customers after a video surfaced online showing a large rat scurrying around a dessert counter at one of its restaurants. The fast-food giant confirmed in a statement that a rat had rummaged through its (...)

05 - 04 - 2016
Thailand receives Russian warning of ISIS threat
Thai police say they have received a warning from Russia's state security agency that 10 Syrians who may be linked to the ISIS group could stage attacks in Thailand on targets associated with Russia and other foes of the militants. National police (...)

04 - 12 - 2015
Suu Kyi calls for ‘healthyskepticism on' Myanmar
Myanmar's opposition leader and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi urged the international community Friday to exercise “healthy skepticism” toward her country's reform process as it sheds a half-century of military rule. It is not the (...)

02 - 06 - 2012
Stocks fall on Greece exit worries
World stock markets wavered Thursday as the lack of a breakthrough in Europe's attempts to shake off its debt crisis kept sentiment gloomy. Worries over Greece intensified after European leaders adjourned a summit without taking concrete measures (...)

25 - 05 - 2012
Asia stocks lower on thin volumes
Asian stock markets were mostly lower Thursday after disappointing jobs figures from the US and Europe dimmed confidence in an economic recovery. Investor nerves was tested by a report that showed US businesses adding far fewer jobs in April than (...)

04 - 05 - 2012
Thai elephants faceextinction threat
Thailand's national symbol, the elephant, may face a new threat of extinction: being poached not just for their tusks, but for their meat. Two wild elephants were found slaughtered last month in a national park in western Thailand, alerting (...)

28 - 01 - 2012
World stocks waver on last trading day of 2011
Global stock markets were mixed Friday on 2011's last trading day and turned in heavy losses for the year after Europe's debt crisis and natural disasters battered a struggling global economy. Japan's benchmark hit its lowest close in 29 (...)

31 - 12 - 2011
World stocks unsteady ahead of Bernanke speech
World stock markets were unsteady Friday as investors waited to see whether Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would promise new steps to help the US economy ward off another recession. Oil prices lingered below $85 a barrel while the dollar (...)

27 - 08 - 2011
Saudi run to Brazil begins today
Major Asian football nations Saudi Arabia, Iran and China will face their first hurdles in the path toward Brazil 2014 when they start sudden-death home-and-away qualifiers Saturday, while Qatar has a challenging task as it seeks to assert its World (...)

23 - 07 - 2011
Dancing Thai police star in YouTube video
A group of dancing policemen has become the latest pop sensation in Thailand with a YouTube video that shows them shimmying and swinging their hips as they impersonate a popular South Korean boy band. The video was posted Aug. 5 and had more than (...)

18 - 08 - 2010
Thailand rejects oil drilling protest
Thailand plans to move ahead with oil exploration off the coast of the popular tourist island of Samui despite protests from environmentalists and pleas from the tourism industry, its energy minister said Thursday. “I believe that energy and (...)

06 - 08 - 2010
Red Shirts stage new protest in Bangkok
Several hundred Red Shirt protesters defied a state of emergency in the Thai capital to stage a symbolic protest Sunday, with hundreds of people sprawling on the ground and chanting, “People died here!” The demonstration at the city's Democracy (...)

02 - 08 - 2010
Bangkok named world's top city
Bangkok city officials say they are humbled and inspired after receiving Travel + Leisure magazine's “Top City” award, despite recent street riots that sent tourists packing. Bangkok Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra told a news conference that the award (...)

30 - 07 - 2010
Thai protest leaders charged with terrorism
Eleven leaders of bloody, anti-government protests could face the death penalty after being charged Tuesday with terrorism during the worst political upheaval in modern Thai history. The Criminal Court denied bail for the 11 who were taken to a (...)

16 - 06 - 2010
Thai premier lifts curfew, keeps state of emergency
Thailand's prime minister lifted a night curfew in Bangkok and other areas on Saturday, saying that order has been restored 10 days after a violent confrontation with anti-government protesters killed more than a dozen people and left parts of the (...)

30 - 05 - 2010
Thai premier extends curfew
Thailand's prime minister on Sunday extended a nighttime curfew in the capital and said he will consider early elections only after the violence that has wracked the nation for the past two months is completely over. Elections are seen as a key (...)

24 - 05 - 2010
PM for reconciliation to heal Thai divide
Thailand's leader promised an independent probe into “all events” surrounding the Red Shirt anti-government protests and called Friday for reconciliation to heal deep political divisions that led to widespread violence and 83 deaths in two (...)

22 - 05 - 2010
Red Shirts pull out of talks with government
Thailand's prime minister rejected scaled-back demands Saturday that he dissolve Parliament in 30 days, prompting anti-government protesters to pull out of negotiations and dashing hopes for an imminent resolution to the country's political (...)

25 - 04 - 2010
Thailand crisis takes a new turn
Thailand's Election Commission ruled Monday that the ruling party be dissolved for alleged misuse of poll donations, in a potential victory for anti-government protesters who paraded slain comrades through Bangkok to press the prime minister to (...)

13 - 04 - 2010
Reds storm into TV compound
government protesters stormed Friday into a telecom company compound where authorities had shut down their vital TV channel, as soldiers and riot police failed to hold them back with tear gas and water cannons. It was the first use of force by the (...)

10 - 04 - 2010
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