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Thai police go undercover as lion dancers to catch thief
Officers devise unusual plan to arrest man suspected of stealing about $64,000 worth of Buddhist artefactsThai…
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Thailand and Cambodia begin talks to end deadly clashes after venue row
Negotiations expected to last four days as each side calls on the other to show sincerity in words and actions…
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Eight Laos hostel staff held over suspected methanol poisoning deaths
Manager and seven staff at Nana backpackers hostel detained after death of six touristsPolice in Laos have det…
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Laos government ‘profoundly saddened’ by deaths of tourists in Vang Vieng
Six foreign visitors died earlier this month after suspected methanol poisoning during night out in backpacker…
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Thai woman sentenced to death for cyanide poisoning in first of 14 murder trials
Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn is accused of swindling thousands from victims before killing themA Thai woman alleged…
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Thai cave boys’ coach trapped again six years later by typhoon floods
Ekkapol Chantawong, who spent nearly three weeks underground in 2018, forced to spend night on roof of homeThe…
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Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra released on parole from police hospital
Formerly exiled billionaire freed six months into eight-year sentence due to age and healthFormer Thai prime m…
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Firecracker warehouse blast kills nine in southern Thailand
More than 100 injured and hundreds of homes reportedly damaged near border with MalaysiaAn explosion ripped th…
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Villagers say 14 killed as Myanmar violence flares
Fighting increases in border states while junta continues to delay electionsFighting between the Myanmar army …
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Thai court orders repair of The Beach location 22 years after filming
Ruling on Maya Bay, on Ko Phi Phi Leh, comes decades after local authorities filed lawsuit over environmental …
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Myanmar military accused of torching hundreds of homes in three-day blitz
Columns of smoke seen rising from villages along 8km stretch in drone footage from country’s north amid opposi…
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Vietnamese man tries to row dinghy from Thailand to India to see wife
Ho Hoang Hung set off with no navigation system after spending two years apart because of Covid restrictionsA …
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Bangkok on alert as 70,000 homes flood in Thailand
Soldiers set up barriers and sandbags to protect archaeological ruins as well as neighbourhoodsThai authoritie…
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Thai prisons holding democracy activists drive record Covid figures
Kingdom reported over 4,800 infections on Thursday, with more than half in two Bangkok prisonsCoronavirus – la…
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Tripadvisor warns users over Thai hotel that sued guest for bad review
Site adds notice to resort’s listing setting out details of dispute that led to defamation arrestTripadvisor h…