Charlene An posted on social media that she was travelling in a taxi with friends after a night out in Bangkok when they were stopped, searched and had to pay US$820 before they were allowed to leave. Source link
Read More »Genocide charge aside, Myanmar gets a seat at US co-chaired Asean defence meet
Myanmar’s military has been invited to take part in a working group co-chaired by the US and Thailand – despite Washington last year declaring it had committed genocide. Source link
Read More »Thailand ‘needs to be fixed’ and Pheu Thai is one to do it: Thaksin’s daughter
Paetongtarn Shinawatra says she’s confident of a landslide election win for her party and is ‘100 per cent ready’ to be a nominee for prime minister. Source link
Read More »Malaysia set to get its first-ever Apple store as hiring push begins
Apple already has stores in Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China, and also recently started promoting job listings for its first location in India Source link
Read More »Two children among 11 burned to death in Thai van crash over Lunar New Year
The van carrying 12 people was travelling from northeastern Amnat Charoen province to Bangkok when it veered off the highway in central Nakhon Ratchasima province. Source link
Read More »Zero-Covid over, Chinese travellers swing into overseas holiday mode
Tourist visa applications for Singapore and Malaysia skyrocket, travel firm says. Source link
Read More »China offers Thai scientists a research base in Antarctica
Thai marine biologist Suchana Chavanich says research in Antarctica could help humanity prepare for the effects of climate change. Source link
Read More »Thai and Chinese researchers team up on frontiers of science
China was Thailand’s fourth-biggest science collaborator in the past five years, in fields ranging from medicine, physics and astronomy to agricultural and biological sciences. Source link
Read More »As Singapore, Malaysia cheer return of China tourists, Japan and India recoil
India, Japan reintroducing negative Covid-19 tests for Chinese travellers as mandatory conditions of entry, while Philippines could follow suit. Source link
Read More »French serial killer Charles ‘the serpent’ Sobhraj to leave Nepal prison early
Sobhraj, 78, is believed to have killed at least 20 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong during the 1970s. Last year the BBC and Netflix jointly produced a TV series dramatising his crimes called The Serpent. Source link
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