Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:13:50 +0000
Facebook will bar foreign-based election advertisments in Thailand in the lead-up to a March poll, the company said Thursday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:27:28 +0000
An ailing Asian black bear was captured for rehabilitation in Prachin Buri’s Prachantakham district on Wednesday night after it came out of a forest to search for food.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:40:43 +0000
Toxic smog forced Bangkok authorities to issue an unprecedented order to shut nearly 450 schools on Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 05:15:11 +0000
BANGKOK — Thailand’s king has issued a royal decree endorsing the first general election since a 2014 coup, the palace said Wednesday, with the date of the long-delayed poll expected to be announced imminently.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 10:14:39 +0000
Advocates for the protection of refugees and asylum seekers are lauding a commitment by Thailand to release children held in its immigration detention centers.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:00:56 +0000
BANGKOK — The elderly owner of a pineapple plantation in Chachoengsao was killed by two wild elephants early Monday, local villagers said. District officials, army troops and wildlife officials checked the plantation in Ban Khao Kluaymai of Chachoengsao’s Tha Takiab district at 6 am Monday after being alerted of the death. They found the body […]
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 07:44:16 +0000
A novice monk was found hanged behind the crematorium of a temple in Ayutthaya’s Bang Pahan district on Monday morning in what believed to be a suicide.
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Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 11:50:45 +0000
Kanokwan Khaoprae, 21, has been arrested by Chonburi and Chanthaburi police while she was travelling on a Chanthaburi-Bangkok bus.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 07:17:23 +0000
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha appeared to admit for the first time Wednesday that the expected election date would be altered after weeks of uncertainty.
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Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:28:29 +0000
After spending several days choking on high levels of fine particle dust, many Bangkok residents have opted for masks to protect themselves.
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