カテゴリー: Thailand
Rescue workers in Thai capital are frantically searching for 78 missing amid rubble as their loved ones watch onPluem, 18, had been working for just one month at a construction site in Bangkok’s Chatuchak district. It was her first job since leaving he…
At least 1,700 people killed as Red Cross officials warn Myanmar faces humanitarian crisis; death toll in Bangkok increases to 18Red Cross officials have warned that Myanmar faces a humanitarian crisis after the deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake.“What we…
Red Cross says devastation is of a level not seen in Asia for over a century as more than 1,700 people killedRescue volunteers, many of them poorly equipped local people, raced to find survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings across central Myanm…
Rescue teams in Thailand and Myanmar continue a desperate search for survivors after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar on Friday. The number killed in Myanmar has surpassed 1,600. Social media footage showed extensive damage in Mandalay, Myanmar’s…
Myanmar’s military rulers have called for ‘any country, any organisation’ to help as concerns grow over how rescuers will reach affected areas. This blog is now closed.Full report: Myanmar earthquake death toll risesPatients evacuated from a Bangkok ho…
Aid agencies warn of ‘extremely difficult’ response amid Myanmar’s continuing civil war with true scale of disaster yet to emergeMyanmar earthquake: latest news updates as death toll jumpsThe death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar has passe…
International donors will need to work with the country’s fragmented local administrations as well as its military rulersRestrictions on the press and internet imposed by the military junta that rules Myanmar mean that information about the powerful ea…
Death toll rises in both countries after tectonic plates rub sideways against each other along Sagaing faultMyanmar and Thailand hit by earthquake – live updatesAn earthquake with a 7.7 magnitude has hit central Myanmar, the United States Geological Su…
United States Geological Survey said the quake was shallow, at a depth of just 10km (six miles) with the epicentre near the central city of MandalayHow have you been affected by the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand?A 30-storey skyscraper under constr…
Footage widely shared on Thai social media shows the moment a tower block under construction collapsed in a Bangkok district after the city was rocked by a strong earthquake. Thailand’s National Institute of Emergency Medicine said that at least one pe…
Junta makes rare call for aid as hundreds injured by 7.7-magnitude quake, which also brought down high-rise in Thai capitalMyanmar and Thailand hit by earthquake – live updatesAt least 144 people have died and 732 have been injured after a powerful ear…
Alexandra Clarke, 26, was on a diving excursion near Koh Tao when blaze broke outA British tourist is missing in Thailand after the tour boat she was travelling on caught fire off the island of Koh Tao.Alexandra Clarke, 26, from Lambeth, south London, …
Canada and US said they would take 48 people held in Thai detention, according to officials, but Bangkok said to have feared upsetting ChinaCanada and the US offered to resettle 48 ethnic Uyghurs held in detention in Thailand over the past decade, sour…
Rights experts say group, who have been detained for more than 10 years, face risk of disappearance and imprisonmentDozens of Uyghurs have been deported from Thailand to China in the face of warnings from human rights experts that there is a high risk …
Lured by the promise of well-paying jobs in Southeast Asia, thousands instead allegedly end up enslaved in jail-like compounds and forced to carry out online scams“The Chinese would shock me with electric probes almost daily. I endured this continuousl…