Parents demand Khon Kaen official leaves after Nong Bua Lam Phu threat

Thai-Chinese high speed rail link under construction in Khon Kaen
The Chinese-Thai high speed rail link under construction in Khon Kaen. Photo: Petebutt.

KHON KAEN: Fearful parents rallied on Monday demanding that a local tambon administration official leave the area immediately after he made threatening reference to a [Read More…]

TAT signs airline deals in bid to lure 1 million Americans

Delta Airlines Boeing 777-200ER on final approach before landing
Delta Airlines Boeing 777-200ER on final approach before landing. Photo: Nicky Boogaard / flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is hoping to welcome at least 1 million tourists from the US next year after securing partnerships with Delta [Read More…]

Tak Bai and Krue Se incidents to be raised in Thaksin’s libel trial against House Speaker

Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra lighting a candle
Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra lighting a candle. Photo: Thaksin Shinawatra / Facebook.

The Krue Se and Tak Bai massacres in Thailand’s south in 2004, during Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s administration, are set to be revisited in the [Read More…]

30 killed, 88 wounded in Russian 16-missile attack on humanitarian convoy in Zaporiyia

Movement of heavy weaponry in eastern Ukraine
Movement of heavy weaponry in eastern Ukraine. Photo: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. CC BY 2.0.

The death toll in Friday’s Russian missile attack on a humanitarian convoy in Zaporiyia, southern Ukraine, has risen to 30, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office [Read More…]

Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘massacre’ in Bucha, the West rules that Putin commits ‘war crimes’

Ukrainian Soldiers assigned to 3rd Battalion in Yavoriv, Ukraine
Ukrainian Soldiers assigned to 3rd Battalion in Yavoriv, Ukraine. Photo: Defense Visual Information Distribution Service / www.dvidshub.net / getarchive.net.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a horror. And it is so because of images such as those left by the passage of Vladimir Putin’s [Read More…]

Defense chiefs from 12 countries condemn massacre of protesters in Myanmar

Protest against military coup on 9 Feb 2021 at Hpa-An, Kayin State, Myanmar
Protest against military coup on 9 Feb 2021 at Hpa-An, Kayin State, Myanmar. Photo: Ninjastrikers. CC BY-SA 4.0.

The top military chiefs of the United States and eleven other countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Oceania condemned Saturday the latest massacre of [Read More…]