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Thai Activist Dealt 2.5 Years in Prison for Facebook Post
An activist in Thailand has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after confessing to posting a BBC article on his Facebook account that has been deemed insulting to the nation's monarchy, a rights group said Tuesday. Jatupat Booyapatraksa, 26, was found guilty Tuesday of violating the country's strict lèse-majesté law, which criminalizes all perceived insults to royal family, a representative of Thai legal monitoring group iLaw tells TIME.
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Thailand's ousted PM Yingluck has fled abroad.
Ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled the country ahead of a verdict against her in a negligence trial brought by the junta that overthrew her, sources close to the Shinawatra family said on Friday.
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Thailand starts 90-day trial of cigarette ban, violators to face one year in jail | Coconuts Bangkok
Starting Feb. 1, smoking will be strictly banned on all Thai beaches, which means having even a quick ciggie could land you in a Thai prison for a year or fined up to THB100,000 ($US3,000). On Wednesday, Thailand launched a 90-day trial of the cigarette ban, prohibiting smoking on 24 beaches. During this three-month period, authorities will kick off a campaign to inform beachgoers of the law but won’t punish violators until the amnesty period ends, Prachachart reported.
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Anglers use ashes of friend as bait to reel in monster 180lbs carp in his honour
Two anglers have honoured their late fisherman friend by turning his ashes into a bait that snared a giant 180lbs catch. Ron Hopper, 64, died from cancer before he could go on a much-anticipated fishing holiday to Thailand with friends Paul Fairbrass and Cliff Dale.
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Wildlife trafficking 'kingpin' arrested
Thai police have arrested a man alleged to be the head of Asia's biggest illegal wildlife trading networks. Boonchai Bach, a 40-year-old Thai of Vietnamese origin, was detained in a town on the border with Laos. He faces up to four years in jail for smuggling protected animal parts like rhino horns and elephant ivory.
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Thai police arrest notorious wildlife trafficking suspect
Police in Thailand have arrested one of the world’s most notorious wildlife traffickers, allegedly involved in the smuggling thousands of tonnes of elephant tusks and rhino horns from Africa to Asia, the Guardian has learned. Boonchai Bach, who goes by multiple aliases including Bach Mai Limh, was arrested at his operational base in the north-eastern province of Nakhon Phanom, next to the Mekong River on Thursday.
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Bangkok air pollution warning, children asked to stay indoors
Residents in Bangkok, one of the world's top tourist destinations, were warned on Thursday the city's air quality had hit dangerous levels just days after the country's pollution control agency appealed to residents to wear face masks.
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This disease kills half the people it infects. So why isn’t more being done?
Melioidosis quietly causes thousands of deaths each year. Meet the doctor who made it his mission to make the world take notice.
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Oligarch 'Sex Huntress' Requests U.S. Asylum After Arrest
A self-described Belarusian “sex-huntress” has requested asylum in the United States in exchange for information about “Russian government crimes” after she was arrested in Thailand. Nastya Rybka was arrested in Thailand on Monday with her partner and eight Russians for running an illegal “sex training" course. The Belarusian national was a key figure in opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s video investigation released last month that claimed that Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska had acted as a...
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Escort Says Audio Recordings Show Russian Meddling in U.S. Election
A Belarusian accused of involvement in a sex workshop in Thailand said she had more than 16 hours of taped conversations, including some about the presidential election.
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18 dead as Thailand tour bus loses control, crashes off road
The accident occured Wednesday evening in Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima province with the double decker bus carrying around 50 people returning home from a holiday.
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Thailand's Kra Canal: China's Way Around the Malacca Strait
A 200-year-old dream might finally become a reality under China’s Belt and Road. Thailand’s Kra Canal: China’s Way Around the Malacca Strait. By Rhea Menon.
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#DontTellMeHowToDress Campaign Takes Off in Thailand
In the annual lead-up to Thailand’s water-soaked new year festivities, Bangkok officials habitually roll out an admonition: In order to avoid sexual harassment, women must watch how they dress. But this year’s warning, issued in the wake of the #MeToo movement, has triggered a monumental backlash on social media.
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Khruangbin @ Villain
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Thailand is new dumping ground for world's high-tech trash, police say
Thailand is a new dumping ground for scrap electronics from around the world, say police and environmentalists, the latest country to feel the impact of China's crackdown on imports of high-tech trash. Police at Laem Chabang port, south of Bangkok, showed on Tuesday seven shipping containers each packed with about 22 tonnes of discarded electronics, including crushed game consoles, computer boards and bags of scrap materials.
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Deluge of electronic waste turning Thailand into 'world's rubbish dump'
At a deserted factory outside Bangkok, skyscrapers made from vast blocks of crushed printers, Xbox components and TVs tower over black rivers of smashed-up computer screens. This is a tiny fraction of the estimated 50m tonnes of electronic waste created just in the EU every year, a tide of toxic rubbish that is flooding into south-east Asia from the EU, US and Japan.
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Missing Thai boys found alive in caves
Rescuers must now extract the 12 boys and their teacher, discovered after nine nerve-wracking days.
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'No risks' to be taken to free Thai boys
Rescuers will take no risks in freeing the 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand, an official said. They have received their first food and medical treatment in 10 days. Seven divers, including a doctor and a nurse, joined the group inside the caves in the north of the country after they were discovered alive on Monday. Rescuers are now considering how best to bring the group to safety.
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Navy SEAL dies while rescuing Thai schoolboys trapped in cave
THE grim reality facing the 12 Thai boys and their football coach has never been more evident. New footage of the daunting conditions facing the group trapped in a flooded cave has been captured by British television network ITV. Several rescuers can be seen struggling through dark, narrow passages. They can see where they are going only through headlights, and are moving through the flooded cave system holding a rope above them.
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Elon Musk goes full superhero, deploys team to save Thai kids trapped in cave
What is that saying about life and art again? Elon Musk has sent engineers from his SpaceX and Boring Company teams to assist with the rescue efforts of the boys' soccer team stuck in a cave system in Thailand.
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