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Move Forward party backtracks on Chart Pattana Kla joining coalition

Following negative reaction online, Move Forward party has dropped Chart Pattana Kla party from its coalition, claiming that it...

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Two more parties join Move Forward-led coalition

Two more parties have agreed to join the coalition, led by the Move Forward party, bringing the number of...

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Coalition partners need not support amending Thailand’s lèse majesté law – Move Forward

The Move Forward party said on Friday that potential coalition partners need not support its controversial stance on amending...

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Thai serial murder suspect heavily involved in online gambling

Serial murder suspect Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn is alleged to be a heavy online gambler who has spent a combined 78...

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Dry season expected to end next Monday with the arrival of rainy season

Thailand looks set to enter this year’s rainy season next Monday. It will last through to mid-October and signals...

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Palang Pracharath candidate sues two senior Democrats for slander

Palang Pracharath’s Thawee Suraban filed complaints with Election Commission (EC) on Friday against two Democrats, Chuan Leekpai and Sathit...

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Rangers look for injured gaur after it was struck by a car

Forest rangers in Wang Nam Khiao district of the north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima are trying to track down...

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Re-run of election in Nakhon Pathom set for May 21st

Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) has set this Sunday as the new election day for Nakhon Pathom’s constituency 1. The...

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Nakhon Ratchasima is world’s 4th city to be declared “Triple Crown” by UNESCO

Nakhon Ratchasima, in Thailand’s north-east, has become the world’s fourth place to gain UNESCO’s coveted “Triple Crown”, after the...

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Thai snooker legend James Wattana loses 3.2 million baht to call centre gang

Thai snooker star James Wattana, who is better known locally as “Tong Sitchoi”, has fallen victim to a call...

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Court orders release of Thailand’s youngest lèse majesté suspect

Thailand’s Central Juvenile and Family Court ordered the release of 15-year-old “Yok” yesterday (Thursday) after 51 days of detention...

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‘Unified’ G7 hits Russia with new sanctions

The United States and its G7 allies rolled out new sanctions against Russia’s “war machine” Friday, targeting Moscow’s lucrative...

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Myanmar junta closes down three Mandalay hospitals

Myanmar’s military junta has closed down three private hospitals in Mandalay for employing striking medics, The Irrawaddy reported. It...

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Police seize assets worth 7 billion baht from “Inspector Sua’s” gambling network

Police have seized assets and cash worth more than 7 billion baht from a major online gambling and money...

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43 cases of election law violations recorded on Election Day

The general election yesterday (Sunday) is being regarded as having gone smoothly, with only 43 election law violations being...

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Move Forward’s victory parade

Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of Move Forward Party and tipped to be the next premier, took part in a convoy...

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Thailand’s Election Commission declares victory for Move Forward Party

The Election Commission (EC) declared victory for Move Forward Party on Monday, after the ballot counting was completed. EC...

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Cyclone Mocha hits Myanmar, Bangladesh

Cyclone Mocha crashed through Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, sparing sprawling refugee camps but bringing a storm surge...

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Turkey braces for momentous runoff after election drama

Turkey braced Monday for its first election runoff after a night of high drama showed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

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A giant killer in Bangkok’s Bang Bon constituency

Move Forward party candidate Rukchanok Srinork, has become a giant-killer in Bangkok’s Bang Bon electoral constituency, a political stronghold...

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Prayut says he respects election results

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Sunday night said he respects the election results which see Move Forward Party emerge...

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Move Forward party declares surprise poll victory over Pheu Thai

Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat declared a surprise election victory, beating the Pheu Thai party based on 95%...

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Jurin quits as Democrat party leader

Jurin Laksanawisit has resigned as leader of the Democrat party to take responsibility for the party’s poor performance in...

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Highlight News Weather

Cyclone Mocha will bring rain to Thailand until Monday

Cyclone Mocha will not directly hit Thailand after it makes landfall in Myanmar this Sunday, but it will bring...

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CNN’s town hall quickly turned chaotic, displaying the tightrope facing journalists covering Trump

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN is facing a backlash over its town hall featuring former President Donald Trump, an...

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Over 2m people Myanmar-Bangladesh Border will be affected by cyclone Mocha

Both local and international meteorological organisations have declared that Cyclone Mocha have damaging effects on over 2 million in...

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Two Thai trainees declared official members of new K-pop group BABYMONSTER

After much anticipation among fans, South Korea’s YG Entertainment has announced the official line-up for their new female K-pop...

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Thai army chief says “coup” should be removed from vocabularies of media

Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Narongpan Jitkaewtae has requested that the media to stop asking him about the possibility of another...

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Three Thai fighters reach the SEA Games boxing finals

Three Thai boxers beat their rivals from Myanmar and Singapore to reach the final round of the SEA Games...

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Thailand’s power usage reaches new high on May 6th due to hot weather

Thailand’s consumption of electricity surged to a new record high of 34,826.50 megawatts at 9.41pm on Saturday May 6th,...

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Industrial Works Department to plug legal loophole on trading of cyanide

Thailand’s Industrial Works Department has promised to tighten regulations, making it compulsory for importers of cyanide to report to...

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Online calls for EC’s ouster following alleged errors during advance voting

Over one million people have signed an online campaign, launched by the change.org website, demanding the ouster of Thailand’s...

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Thailand to host BIMSTEC retreat in July

Thailand is scheduled to host a retreat of BIMSTEC foreign ministers in July, to reinvigorate the 25-year-old intergovernmental organisation,...

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No plan to impose departure tax on outbound Thais – Revenue Department

Thailand’s Revenue Department has no intention of imposing a departure tax on Thai nationals and permanent foreign residents travelling...

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At least 22 dead after India boat capsizes

At least 22 people died when a double-decker tourist boat capsized in India’s southern state of Kerala, officials said...

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Having a baby doesn’t mean you can’t be in politics

Pheu Thai’s prime ministerial candidate Paetongtarn Shinawatra gave birth to a baby boy on May 1st, a happy piece of...

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Stars take centre stage as UK steps up coronation celebrations

Britain revelled in the coronation of King Charles III on Sunday as it staged a star-studded concert watched by...

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Anti-monarchists criticise ‘heavy-handed’ arrests at King Charles’ coronation

LONDON, May 7 (Reuters) – Anti-monarchists on Sunday criticised the policing of the coronation of King Charles as heavy-handed,...

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Japanese PM heads to South Korea for landmark summit

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida heads to Seoul on Sunday — the first bilateral visit in over a decade...

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Mass shooting at Texas mall leaves fatalities, 9 wounded

A shooter opened fire at an outlet mall in the Dallas suburb of Allen on Saturday, sparking scenes of...

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WHO declares end to COVID global health emergency

LONDON, May 5 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization on Friday declared an end to COVID-19 as a global...

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Super Poll predicts Pheu Thai will not win a landslide, but will win most seats

The Pheu Thai party is expected to win 139 House seats, with a 5% margin of error, in the...

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Thai actress insists she was unaware that possessing cyanide without a permit is illegal

Actress Preechaya Pongthananikorn has offered a public apology for ordering cyanide online to poison snakes and monitor lizards in...

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Many turn up to receive bivalent vaccine booster doses provided by the BMA

Many people have shown up since Songkran to get COVID-19 vaccine booster doses, provided by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration...

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8 years in prison for ex-Yala governor over GT-200 bomb detector deal

Former governor of Yala province, Thira Minthrasak, has been sentenced to 8 years in prison without suspension, after being...

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Paetongtarn insists Thaksin has no PM ambition

Pheu Thai Party’s prime ministerial candidate, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, on Wednesday tried to play down remarks by her father, former...

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Serial murder suspect’s former husband surrenders to police

The former husband of serial murder suspect Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn surrendered to police in Nakhon Pathom province today (Wednesday), to...

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What to expect from King Charles’ coronation on May 6

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) – King Charles will be crowned at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony full of pomp,...

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Myanmar junta pardons over 2,000 political prisoners

Myanmar’s junta pardoned more than 2,000 political prisoners to mark a Buddhist holiday on Wednesday, with families rushing to...

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Around Thailand Environment News

Warming sea bleaching corals around Phang-nga’s Tachai Island

Corals around Tachai Island, in the Similan Islands Nation Park off the southern province of Phang-nga, are bleaching due...

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Thailand’s new air quality standard to take effect on June 1st

Thailand has decided to implement a new PM2.5 standard level, reduced from 50 microns (microgram/cubic metre) to 37.5 microns,...

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Election Commission under fire over poor regulation of populist campaign policies

The Thailand Development Research Institute has criticised the Election Commission for its failure to check whether populist campaign policies,...

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34 wounded in Russian strikes on central Ukraine

Russian missile attacks across Ukraine early Monday wounded 34 people in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, including children, regional authorities...

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MasterChef presenter Jock Zonfrillo dies aged 46

MasterChef Australia host Jock Zonfrillo has died at the age of 46, his family said in a message on...

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Ballots for advance voting sent from Bangkok to 400 constituencies

Election ballots were dispatched, under tight police security, from Thailand Post Company’s head office in Bangkok today (Monday) to...

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Over 40% of working Thais are overweight and risk of developing associated diseases

42.4% of working Thai people, aged from 15 years and up, are overweight and at risk of developing non-communicable...

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GI certification for Nong Bua Daeng hom thong bananas in Chaiyaphum

Thailand’s Department of Intellectual Property has registered the Geographical Indication (GI) of the Nong Bua Daeng hom thong banana,...

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PM praises workers as vital for Thailand’s development in May Day speech

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha praised Thailand’s workers as being vital in the development of the country and, as such,...

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Thai police arrest 84 Indian gamblers at a hotel in Chon Buri

Thai police rounded up 94 gamblers, mostly Indians, at an illegal casino set up in the conference hall of...

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Paetongtarn Shinawatra gives birth to her second child

Pheu Thai party’s prime ministerial candidate, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, gave birth to her second child this morning (Monday), and said...

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Some 6,000 have fled Sudan to Central African Republic: UN

Around 6,000 people, most of them women, have fled the fighting in Sudan to neighbouring Central African Republic over...

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EC sets campaign spending limits for constituency candidates and parties

Today (Friday), Thailand’s Election Commission disclosed the maximum amount that each constituency candidate and each party can spend during...

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Twelve Thai evacuees from Sudan suffering respiratory diseases

Twelve of the first group of 78 Thais evacuated from Sudan, who arrived in Bangkok Thursday night, have been...

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EC turns down proposal for special budget to ease household power charges

The Election Commission (EC) has rejected the government’s proposal to use about 11 billion baht of a special budget...

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Charter Court asked to probe Pheu Thai party’s ฿10k campaign giveaway policy

A complaint was lodged with the Office of the Ombudsman today (Friday) by Sonthiya Sawasdee, a political activist, asking...

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Residues of cyanide and antidote found in poisoning suspect’s car and parcel

Traces of cyanide have been found in the car of the suspect in a series of cyanide poisonings and...

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Returning Thai students from Sudan say escaped during ceasefire

Thai students, who arrived in Bangkok from Sudan via Saudi Arabia Thursday night, said that they took advantage of...

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EC unveils method for sharing remaining party-list seats after distribution among parties

The Election Commission’s Office has come up with a method for sharing remaining party-list seats, after the distribution of...

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Advance voting for Thais overseas begins Tuesday

Advance general election voting for Thais living overseas is scheduled to begin tomorrow (Tuesday) at Thai embassies and consular...

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Myanmar struggles to supply power to its largest economic hub

To say that Myanmar’s power supply cannot deal with the burgeoning electrical demand would be an understatement.  Forget rural...

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First court hearing in the murder case of Karen activist “Billy” on Monday

Thailand’s Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases is to hold its first hearing in the murder case of...

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South Korea’s Yoon heads to US ahead of Biden summit

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol flew to Washington Monday for a six-day state visit, as the allies move...

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COVID-19 infections in Bangkok double after Songkran

COVID-19 infections in Bangkok have doubled to about 700 cases a day since the Songkran festival, with the number...

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Thailand’s industrial confidence index for March highest in a decade

Thailand’s Industrial Sentiment Index (TISI) was at its highest for a decade in March, boosted by a rebound in...

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UK gears up for King Charles III’s coronation

Charles III will be officially crowned king next month, in a solemn religious service eight months after the death...

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Summer storms cause extensive damage in Chiang Mai on Saturday

Several houses were damaged and trees and power poles felled by strong winds and hailstorms which struck Mae Rim...

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Thailand prepares international evacuation of Thai people from Sudan

The Thai Foreign Ministry has been coordinating with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United States over the use of...

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Prayut confident of making a comeback, but prepared “to go home”

Incumbent Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has expressed confidence that his United Thai Nation Party will win enough seats...

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Being a young female leader in Thai forestry – Netnapa Ngamnet

Netnapa Ngamnet, who’s currently the head of Hat Wanakon National Park in Thailand’s coastal province of Prachuap Khiri Khan,...

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General Highlight News Weather

Weatherman says current hot weather in Thailand does not qualify as a heat wave

The hot weather, currently affecting many parts of Thailand, is being caused by persistent low pressure cell, according to...

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Balancing between US, China a challenge for Thailand’s next administration

Striking a right balance in its relationship with the US and China whose ongoing geopolitical rivalry is rattling the...

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17 indicted in connection with the Kong Salak Plus online lottery platform

Kong Salak Plus CEO Panthawat Nakvisut was among 17 suspects indicted today (Friday) by public prosecutors on charges of...

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Hot weather blamed for increased power consumption and charges

The Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) is blaming the increase in electricity bills for many households in Bangkok on the...

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Muslims end Ramadan, begin holiday amid war, reconciliation

BEIRUT (AP) — Large parts of the Muslim world marked the end of the fasting month of Ramadan at...

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Joint committee to deal with smuggling of pork via Laem Chabang port

Thailand’s pig farmers have proposed that a joint working committee, between the government and the private sector, be urgently...

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Three police officers injured in insurgent attack in Narathiwat province

Three police officers were injured when an unknown number of southern insurgents attacked their outpost, in Su-ngai Padi district...

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Thai PM celebrates Songkran on Khao San Road

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha surprised many Songkran revellers on Khao San Road this afternoon (Friday), sporting a colourful shirt...

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Seven of Thailand’s political parties unveil their environmental policies

Seven political parties recently presented their various environmental policies for Bangkok and the rest of the country to Thai...

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Thai Election Commission offers rewards for valid information of election fraud

The Election Commission’s office has opened four channels through which members of the public can inform election officials of...

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Khao San Songkran celebrations to end at 10pm Friday night, not midnight

Bangkok police have imposed a 10pm deadline for Songkran celebrations on Khao San Road to end tonight (Friday), instead...

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Thailand among most improved countries in which to do business – EIU

Thailand, Vietnam and India are the Asian countries which have most improved their ranking over the past year in...

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Japan approves country’s first legal casino

Japan’s government said Friday it has approved a controversial plan to build the country’s first legal casino in Osaka,...

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Opinion

France – in search of “strategic autonomy”

French President Emmanuel Macron’s three-day visit to China turned out to be a game-changer in ways no one could...

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Thai police to seek extradition of Chinese student’s alleged murderers

Thai police are in consultation with their Chinese counterparts over the extraditions of three Chinese nationals, wanted for the...

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Forest fires reignite near Khao Yai National Park in Nakhon Nayok province

About 150 firefighters have been mobilised to control forest fires, which have reignited in Thailand’s Nakhon Nayok province, as...

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Assets worth ฿31m seized from drug gang in multiple recent raids

Thai anti-narcotics officers, police and soldiers have seized assets, worth about 31 million baht, in raids on eight locations...

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Taiwan detects Chinese warships, planes around island after drills end

Chinese warships and aircraft were still operating around Taiwan on Tuesday, the island’s defence ministry said, a day after...

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Twitter ad revenue to plummet 28% in 2023: forecast

Twitter’s income from advertising will fall by 28 percent in 2023, a closely watched forecast said Tuesday, as the...

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ASEAN News

Myanmar airstrikes kill over 100, possibly more

At least 100 people are estimated to have been killed in Myanmar’s Sagaing Region by air strikes today (Tuesday),...

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Core Pheu Thai member defends 10,000 baht per head manifesto promise

Former foreign minister and a core member of the Pheu Thai Party, Noppadon Patama, defended their party’s manifesto promise...

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