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News Articles: Thailand

Premchai Karnasuta, the president of Italian-Thai Development Co arrives on a wheelchair at Bang Sue Police Station in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday to surrender to police on criminal negligence charges for the collapse of a Bangkok high-rise during a March 28 earthquake.

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  • Asia

Construction magnate surrenders to police over Bangkok tower collapse in earthquake

Ninety-two people were confirmed dead in the rubble of the building. The building was the only one in Thailand to collapse in the earthquake that was centered in neighboring Myanmar.

May 16, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A damaged pagoda is seen in the aftermath of Friday's earthquake in Amarapura township, Mandalay, Myanmar on Wednesday.

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  • Asia

Myanmar's military declares a ceasefire as earthquake deaths pass 3,000

The surprise announcement by the unelected government said the halt in fighting would run until April 22 to show compassion for people affected by last week's quake.

April 03, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A rescue worker descends  at the site of an under-construction building collapse in Bangkok on March 30, 2025, two days after an earthquake struck central Myanmar and Thailand.

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  • World

Photos: See the aftermath of the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand

The first shipments of international aid arrived at the airport in the former capital, Yangon. They came from neighboring China and from India and included search and rescue and medical teams, as well as blankets, and other provisions.

March 30, 2025
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  • NPR Staff
Rescuers work at the site of a high-rise building under construction that collapsed after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday.

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  • Asia

Earthquake rocks Thailand and Myanmar, triggering the collapse of a Bangkok high-rise

The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was a shallow 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), with an epicenter in Myanmar, according to preliminary reports.

March 28, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Police enter an immigration detention centre in Bangkok on Jan. 22.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Thailand's deportation of Uyghurs to China has echoes of 10 years ago

Thailand's recent deportations of Uyghurs to China have eerie parallels with a large deportation in 2015, in which the country bowed to Beijing, writes historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

March 08, 2025
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  • Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) travels to Thailand in Season 3 of <em>The White Lotus.</em><br>

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  • Television

Natasha Rothwell on checking into 'The White Lotus' Thailand: 'It felt like home'

In the new season of The White Lotus, Rothwell reprises her role of spa manager Belinda, a woman "on the precipice of change" as she straddles the line between guest and staffer.

February 27, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
Police stand outside an immigration detention center of the Immigration Bureau where Uyghur detainees were held in Bangkok in January. The detainees said they were facing deportation back to China, where they fear persecution.

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  • Asia

Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China, activists say

The detainees were part of a group of some 300 Uyghurs who fled China and were arrested in Thailand in 2014. Thailand deported more than 100 of them to China in 2015, drawing condemnation.

February 27, 2025
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  • Michael Sullivan
A bus, believed to be carrying Chinese nationals who have worked at scam centers in eastern Myanmar, crosses the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot in Thailand's Tak province before being flown back to China on Feb. 20, 2025.

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  • Asia

China repatriates more than 1,000 online scam workers rescued from Myanmar

Thailand, China and Myanmar have coordinated efforts over the past month to shut down the scam centers that bilked victims around the world out of billions of dollars.

February 20, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A view of <em>Moving Objects: Learning from Local and Global Communities</em> on show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

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  • Art & Design

A museum's confession: Why we have looted objects

An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.

January 28, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
Same-sex couples pose for pictures at a marriage registration event at Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok, on Thursday.

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  • Asia

Couples wed as landmark same-sex marriage law takes effect in Thailand

Hundreds of same-sex couples tied the knot across Thailand on Thursday, as the country becomes the first in Southeast Asia to legally recognize equal marriage.

January 23, 2025
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  • Adam Hancock
Visitors look at a tiled memorial wall displaying names of victims from the tsunami 2004 in Tsunami memorial park, at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand.

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  • World

Trauma lingers on for survivors of the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

One of modern history's worst natural disasters, the tsunami left about 230,000 dead across a dozen countries.

December 23, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A  worker from Thailand rests after he was evacuated from Metula following a rocket strike from Lebanon that killed four laborers from Thailand and one Israeli citizen on Oct. 31 in Kfar Yuval, Israel.

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  • World

In northern Israel, migrant workers are farming while under fire from Hezbollah

Foreign laborers, many from Thailand, are tending fields and livestock in an area Israel has declared off-limits to its own civilians amid ongoing military operations against Hezbollah.

November 14, 2024
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  • Scott Neuman and
  • Daniel Estrin
Rescuers work at the site of a bus that caught fire, carrying young students with their teachers, in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday.

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  • Asia

More than 20 students and teachers are feared dead in Thailand school trip bus fire

A bus carrying young students and their teachers on a school trip caught fire in suburban Bangkok, leaving more than 20 feared dead, officials and rescuers said.

October 01, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, leader of Pheu Thai Party and daughter of Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, smiles before a news conference in Bangkok on Thursday.

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  • Asia

Thailand's new prime minister renews the legacy of her father, Thaksin Shinawatra

The election of Paetongtarn Shinawatra as Thailand’s prime minister represents a remarkable back-to-the-future moment. She renews the political dynasty founded by her father, Thaksin Shinawatra.

August 16, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Former Thai prime ministerial candidate and ex-Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat takes part in a a press conference at the party headquarters in Bangkok on Wednesday.

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  • World

Thai court bans a popular political party for proposing to amend lèse-majesté law

The Constitutional Court ordered dissolution of the party, which won elections last year, saying it violated the constitution by proposing to amend the law against defaming the country’s royal family.

August 07, 2024
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  • Michael Sullivan
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