International news with relevance to Thai and regional readers
A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival Sunday, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, killing everyone aboard except for two flight attendants plucked from the wreckage.
The Thai Embassy in Seoul has reported that there are two Thai nationals among the 181 passengers aboard a Jeju airplane that crashed while landing at Muan Airport in South Korea this morning.
A Thai pilot, and former president of the Thai Pilots Association, said today that there is little to no chance that the pilot of a plane would land without knowing that the landing gear had failed.
Airports of Thailand CEO Kirati Kitmanawat said today that there have been no reports of there being anything wrong with the ill-fated Jeju aircraft, the runway or of a bird hitting the plane during its stopover at Suvarnabhumi international airport.
France has sent Indonesia an official request for the transfer of a French death row inmate who has spent nearly 20 years in prison, an Indonesian minister told AFP on Saturday.
An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet crashed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan after travelling far off course, killing 38 of the 67 people on board, officials said.
Washington, United States - Santa Claus has no need to worry about recent mystery drone sightings over New Jersey, a US Air Force general said Tuesday, as an annual tradition of "tracking" Saint Nick swung into action.
Panama's president Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday dismissed recent threats made by US President-elect Donald Trump to retake control of the Panama Canal over complaints of "unfair" treatment of American ships.
A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 60 others in what authorities called a deliberate attack.
Two killed and several injured in a school shooting in Wisconsin, where a teenage student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, Madison. Police Chief Shon Barnes confirmed the suspect, also a student, is dead.
Seoul, South Korea - South Korea’s parliament on Saturday impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his stunning and short-lived martial law decree, a move that ended days of political paralysis but set up an intense debate over Yoon’s fate, as jubilant crowds roared to celebrate another defiant moment in the country’s resilient democracy.
Close to 700 million people call Southeast Asia home. Hundreds of languages are spoken in the region that spans 11 countries, and different religions thrive. Those with the greatest number of followers are Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity respectively.
