Obama’s 90-minute meeting today with region’s leaders expected to upgrade relations to a key partner US President Barack Obama will today endorse the centrality of Asean in new regional community building and an expansive role for it in global issues, at the inaugural Asean-US Leaders’ Meeting in Singapore. Obama, who is scheduled to hold a […]
BANGKOK, Nov 14 (TNA) — The Thai government is preparing evidence to help facilitate the release of a Thai engineer held in Cambodia on charges of spying on fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra and is prepared to evacuate Thai citizens from that country if the diplomatic row worsens, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said Saturday. […]
A 31-year-old Thai mechanic working for Cambodia Air Traffic Services was arrested in Cambodia on Wednesday for allegedly stealing the flight data of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and itineraries of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday. Kieth Chantharit, the spokesman for the Cambodian police, said the Thai man, who […]
Cambodia has rejected a request for the extradition of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is now visiting the Southeast Asian nation. On Wednesday, Thai diplomats presented Cambodian officials with a request to detain and extradite Mr. Thaksin. He arrived in Cambodia on Tuesday, where he has been appointed economic adviser to Cambodian Prime […]
Cambodia will not have time to discuss with Thailand on the deteriorating ties when their leaders meet in the US-Asean Summit in Singapore this weekend, Cambodia’s PM Hun Sen said Wednesday. Hun Sen was speaking after his government rejected a Thai request to extradite fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra. Thai diplomats submitted the request together with supplementary […]
NEWLY-crowned Miss Thailand Pongchanok Kunklub has withdrawn for the national taekwondo squad for the Southeast Asian Games in Laos. But I’m not sure she has her priorities in order. In what must have been a gut-wrenching decision, Pongchanok has chosen looks over left hooks and revealed her victory in last weekend’s Miss Thailand pageant has […]
Thai women were forced to sell sex, cops say The Cook County sheriff’s police detained three women from Thailand on suspicion they had been coerced to engage in prostitution across the U.S. in the last three weeks as part of an international prostitution ring. The women said operators of the ring confiscated their passports, demanded […]
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) — Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s “general condition is good,” the royal household said, dousing speculation that the 81-year-old monarch’s health had worsened during a 26-day stay in a hospital. “A further period of recovery of lung pneumonia is necessary, as in case of the elderly,” a faxed statement from the Royal Household […]
