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News Articles: Thailand

Political activist Mongkhon Thirakot flashes the pro-democracy gesture of a three-finger salute ahead of going to a court in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, Thursday Jan. 26, 2023.

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  • Asia

A Thai court sentences an activist to 28 years for online posts about the monarchy

A court in Thailand sentenced a 27-year-old political activist to 28 years in prison on for posting messages on Facebook that it said defamed the country's monarchy.

January 27, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo provided by Cambodia's Fresh News, smoke rises as a fire burns Thursday through the Grand Diamond City Casino and Hotel near a Cambodia-Thai international border gate in Poipet, Cambodia.

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  • Asia

A massive fire at Cambodia hotel and casino kills at least 19 people

Neighboring Thailand sent firetrucks and emergency workers to help cope with the 12-hour inferno in a bustling border town. Some victims are believed to still be under debris or in locked rooms.

December 29, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Thai business tycoon and transgender activist Chakrapong "Anne" Chakrajutathib poses for a photo after a news conference Thursday in Bangkok.

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  • Arts & Life

A Thai media mogul and transgender activist has bought the Miss Universe competition

Chakrapong "Anne" Chakrajutathib, who controls JKN Global Group, purchased the organization for $20 million. She's a celebrity in Thailand who is outspoken about being a transgender woman.

October 27, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A family of a victim mourns as they bring a blanket and a milk bottle during a ceremony for those killed in the attack on the Young Children's Development Center in the rural town of Uthai Sawan, north eastern Thailand, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

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  • Asia

In Thailand, mourning for the children and others slain by an ex-police officer

Relatives grieving staggering loss Friday laid flowers at a day care center in rural northeastern Thailand where a fired police officer killed dozens of people, including children as young as 2.

October 07, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In this mug shot released by the Thailand Criminal Investigations Bureau a suspected assailant is shown in the attack in the town of Nongbua Lamphu, northern Thailand, on Thursday.

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  • Asia

More than 30, mostly children, dead in a mass shooting at a Thai child care center

Dozens of people, primarily children, were killed Thursday when a gunman opened fire in a child care center in northeastern Thailand, authorities said.

October 06, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, air force and naval aviation corps of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) fly planes at an unspecified location in China on Aug. 4.

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  • Asia

China is sending fighter jets to Thailand for joint exercises

The training will include strikes on ground targets and troop deployment, the Chinese Defense Ministry said. China's expanding military activities have alarmed the U.S. and its allies.

August 13, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Major fire damage fills the interior at the Mountain B pub in the Sattahip district of Chonburi province, about 100 miles southeast of Bangkok, Thailand.

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  • Asia

A fire at a music pub in eastern Thailand kills at least 13

Video circulating on social media showed people fleeing the pub while thick black smoke billowed from the door and then the entrance through which people were escaping was suddenly engulfed in flames.

August 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The first customer of the day, Rittipomng Bachkul celebrates after buying legal marijuana at the Highland Cafe in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, June 9, 2022.

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  • Medical Treatments

Thailand decriminalizes marijuana, but not the strong stuff

Thailand's government says it is promoting cannabis for medical use only, warning that lighting up recreationally in public could still considered to be a nuisance subject to a potential fines.

June 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The first customer of the day, Rittipomng Bachkul celebrates after buying legal marijuana at the Highland Cafe in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, June 9, 2022.

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  • Medical Treatments

Thailand decriminalizes marijuana, but not the strong stuff

Thailand's government says it is promoting cannabis for medical use only, warning that lighting up recreationally in public could still considered to be a nuisance subject to a potential fines.

June 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A tourist strolls along the white sand of Maya Beach in Thailand. The destination was once overrun by visitors, but thanks in part to the pandemic, its ecosystem has had time to recover.

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  • Asia

In Thailand, the pandemic helped a famous beach recover from an onslaught of tourists

The Leonardo DiCaprio film The Beach helped put Maya Bay on the "must see" list of every visitor to Thailand. But that proved too much for its delicate ecosystem. The pandemic helped change that.

March 21, 2022
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  • Michael Sullivan
M. dances at a go-go bar. She was working as a topless dancer — and also as a sex worker — in the tourist city of Pattaya, Thailand, until the bar closed down in January. She decided to return to her hometown to look for work in a different sector.

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  • Global Health

Whatever Happened To ... The Thai Sex Worker Trying To Rebuild Her Life In A Pandemic?

When we interviewed her in September 2020, she was hoping the pandemic would end soon so tourists could return to Thailand. But the COVID crisis has only worsened in the country.

September 08, 2021
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  • Suchada Phoisaat and
  • Aurora Almendral
Above: N., a sex worker at a bar in Pattaya, Thailand. The sex trade has offered good-paying jobs for many people from rural areas who were facing a life of tending rice paddies and digging up cassava roots.

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  • Global Health

How The Pandemic Has Upended The Lives Of Thailand's Sex Workers

Many of them left rural areas to earn their living in the sex trade — and send money home to help their families. COVID-19 restrictions have changed all that.

February 03, 2021
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  • Aurora Amendral and
  • Photos by Allison Joyce
Riot police use water cannons to disperse pro-democracy protesters during an anti-government rally in Bangkok on Friday.

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  • Asia

Police In Bangkok Use Water Cannon To Break Up Anti-Government Protests

Riot police in Thailand sought to disperse thousands of protesters, a day after the government officially banned demonstrations calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.

October 16, 2020
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  • Scott Neuman
Pro-democracy protesters hold up a three-fingered salute Thursday at Bangkok's Ratchaprasong intersection.

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  • Asia

Thailand Declares State Of Emergency Amid Anti-Government Protests

Tens of thousands of demonstrators ignored the order. They are calling for the resignation of military-backed Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and curbs on the monarchy.

October 15, 2020
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  • Scott Neuman
Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, who read a politically charged manifesto at a rally last week, outside Thammasat University on Tuesday.

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  • Asia

In Thailand, a 21-Year-Old Student Dares To Tackle A Taboo Subject

Last week, Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul took the stage at a rally to read a manifesto calling for reform of Thailand's politically powerful monarchy — a move that could land her in jail.

August 21, 2020
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  • Michael Sullivan
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