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Then prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and Hun Sen signed a joint communique on June 18, 2001, approving the controversial MoU 44, concerning overlapping areas of claim in the Gulf of Thailand, when Thaksin was on an official visit to Cambodia on June 18-19, said Panthep Puapongpan, dean of the College of Oriental Medicine of Rangsit University.
Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven staff of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths of six tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, state media reported Tuesday.
Thai troops stationed near the Thai-Myanmar border, in Mae Hong Son province, have been put on alert after troops from Myanmar’s United Wa State Army (UWSA) are reported to have occupied eight former bases of the now defunct Mong Tai Army, some of which are located on Thai territory.
A major Myanmar ethnic rebel group said on Monday it was ready for talks with the junta to end more than a year of renewed fighting that has ravaged areas along the China border.
The Laos government said Saturday it was "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng, with the toll from a suspected methanol poisoning incident now at six.
A second young Australian tourist has died after apparently ingesting tainted alcohol while on holiday in Laos, Canberra's foreign minister said Friday.
As the first ASEAN member to establish ties with Vietnam during the Vietnam War in 1973, Malaysia recognized the potential of this country early on. Kuala Lumpur understood that overall regional stability and cooperation would depend on Vietnam’s integration with ASEAN.
Five foreign tourists have died after a suspected mass methanol poisoning from drinking tainted alcohol at a backpacker hotspot in Laos, Western government officials and media said Thursday.
Sydney/Bangkok - An Australian teenager died on Thursday after drinking alcohol contaminated with methanol in Laos, Thai police and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, the fourth foreign national now suspected to have died in the incident.
Two Danish citizens and a US national have died, and two Australian tourists continue to fight for their lives in a Thai hospital, after consuming alcohol allegedly tainted with methanol in Vang Vieng, a tourist town in neighbouring Laos.
A powerful typhoon wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern Philippines on Sunday in the sixth major storm to hit the country in less than a month.
MoU 44, a written territorial understanding between Thailand and Cambodia, can be terminated unilaterally, but this should not be done because it may adversely affect relations between the parties to it, according to Council of State Secretary-General Pakorn Nilprapunt today.
