Saudi National Team players were competing in both Thailand and Bahrain this weekend, taking part in two competitions.
Othman Almulla, Saudi Arabia's only professional golfer was accompanied by three of Saudi Arabia's leading amateurs Abdulrahman Al (...)
An angry crowd hurled homemade fire bombs and torched vehicles at a police station on Thailand's resort island of Phuket to protest the deaths of two young men who died in a motorcycle crash while being chased by police, authorities said on (...)
AlHijjah 25, 1435, Oct 19, 2014, SPA -- Two tourists from South Korea are missing after a boat carrying them and about two dozen others collided with a fishing vessel near Thailand's southern resort of Phuket on Sunday, police said, according to (...)
Officials say 73 refugees from Myanmar's Rohingya minority found adrift off a Thai resort island will be repatriated to their homeland.
Phuket provincial Governor Maitri Inthusut said Wednesday they declared they were unable to continue their (...)
Officials said a boat carrying about 70 refugees from Myanmar's beleaguered Rohingya minority has been found adrift in the Andaman Sea off the Thai resort of Phuket, AP reported.
Authorities provided them with food, water, medicine and fuel on (...)
The United States
urged Myanmar to implement a U.N. resolution imposing an arms
embargo on North Korea in a face-to-face meeting, a senior U.S.
State Department official said on Thursday, Reuters reported.
The official, who spoke on condition he (...)
North Korea says it will not
re-enter six-party talks to end its nuclear weapons
program, citing the «deep-rooted anti-North Korean
policy» of the United States, AP reported.
«The six-party talks are over,» Ri Hung Sik, spokesman
for the (...)
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sketched out on Wednesday how the United States might cope with a nuclear Iran - by arming its allies in the Gulf and extending a “defense umbrella” over the region.
She later said she was not suggesting a new (...)
Southeast Asian countries voiced outrage Saturday over bombings at American luxury hotels in
Indonesia's capital that killed eight people and wounded
more than 50 others.
Suicide bombers posing as guests attacked the J.W.
Marriott and (...)
Authorities on Monday found the two flight data recorders from a plane that crashed and killed 90 people — mostly foreigners — on Thailand's resort island of Phuket, while an airline official said wind shear may have doomed the flight.
The budget (...)
Investigators searched Monday
through charred remains of a plane that crashed and killed
89 people _ mostly foreigners _ on Thailand's resort island
of Phuket, while an airline official said wind shear may
have doomed the flight, according to (...)
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi arrived in this southern resort province today for a three-day official visit, Thailand's news agency "TNA" reported.
He will hold talks with his Thai counterpart Gen. Surayud Chulanont on ways to end (...)
The United States is willing to show flexibility on its proposal for resolving a nuclear weapons impasse with North Korea if Pyongyang responds constructively when talks resume this month after a one-year delay, U.S. officials said.
Pyongyang has (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday arrived in the tsunami-hit island of Phuket, southern Thailand, where she will visit an American-sponsored disaster relief project and hold bilateral talks with the Thai government, dpa (...)
U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice said Monday the United States is stepping
up cooperation to fight terrorism in Southeast Asia,
warning that terror attacks remain a major threat across
the region.
"The threat of extremism is a threat (...)
The United Nations emerged on Saturday as a coordinator for a regional tsunami warning centre after officials from 43 nations including India, Indonesia and Thailand failed to agree who should run it.
The compromise dealt a blow to Thailand which (...)
The number of Britons killed by
the Asian tsunami is likely to double earlier estimates,
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Friday, calling
efforts to identify thousands of deteriorating bodies one
of the biggest forensic operations (...)