Thailand

Conflict Continues Between Israeli Forces And Hezbollah

In northern Israel, migrant workers are farming while under fire from Hezbollah

10:31am November 14, 2024

Foreign laborers, many from Thailand, are tending fields and livestock in an area Israel has declared off-limits to its own civilians amid ongoing military operations against Hezbollah.

More than 20 students and teachers are feared dead in Thailand school trip bus fire

11:20am October 01, 2024

A bus carrying young students and their teachers on a school trip caught fire in suburban Bangkok, leaving more than 20 feared dead, officials and rescuers said.

Thailand's new prime minister renews the legacy of her father, Thaksin Shinawatra

5:13am August 16, 2024

The election of Paetongtarn Shinawatra as Thailand’s prime minister represents a remarkable back-to-the-future moment. She renews the political dynasty founded by her father, Thaksin Shinawatra.

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Thai court bans a popular political party for proposing to amend lèse-majesté law

11:20am August 07, 2024

by Michael Sullivan

The Constitutional Court ordered dissolution of the party, which won elections last year, saying it violated the constitution by proposing to amend the law against defaming the country’s royal family.

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Thailand still grapples with a strict law against criticizing the monarchy

7:00am August 04, 2024

by Andrew Nachemson

Thailand has taken some steps toward democracy. But a flurry of court challenges has raised the specter of another crisis — with the lèse-majesté law on royal defamation front and center.

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Cyanide traces found in the blood of 6 Americans and Vietnamese who died in Bangkok

6:55am July 17, 2024

by The Associated Press

Police say one killed the rest but did not say which of the six was the suspect. A husband and wife among the dead had invested with two of the others, suggesting that money could be a motive.

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Thailand’s Senate overwhelmingly approves a bill to legalize same-sex marriage

12:45pm June 18, 2024

by The Associated Press

Thailand’s Senate voted overwhelmingly for a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, clearing the last legislative hurdle for the country to become the first in Southeast Asia to enact such a law.

Thai activists hold a portrait of Netiporn Sanesangkhom, a member of the activist group Thaluwang outside of Criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday.

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A monarchy reform activist in Thailand dies in detention after a hunger strike

3:00am May 15, 2024

by The Associated Press

Netiporn Sanesangkhom, 28, was a member of the activist group Thaluwang, known demanding reform of the monarchy and abolition of the law that makes it illegal to defame members of the royal family.

Arts

Met museum is returning looted ancient art to Cambodia and Thailand

4:20pm December 15, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

The Metropolitan Museum of Art had been displaying artwork from the Khmer era that was associated with a man indicted in 2019 for the illegal trafficking of antiquities.

A Thai worker labors in Israeli fields adjacent to the Gaza Strip on Oct. 12.

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Thai farmhands in Israel face a grim choice: work in a war zone or go home to poverty

10:56am November 09, 2023

by Scott Neuman

Some 30,000 Thais were working in Israel prior to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. More than 7,000 have left Israel since. More than 50 Thai citizens were killed or taken hostage in the attacks.