News from Thailand
BANGKOK - A strong earthquake shook a border area between northern Thailand and Laos early Thursday, swaying high-rises in Bangkok and Vietnam's capital.
Residents of Chiang Mai, northern Thailand's biggest city, felt prolonged shaking but saw no major damage.
Chiang Mai resident Petchnoi Osathaphan …
Read moreBANGKOK - A strong earthquake shook a border area between northern Thailand and Laos early Thursday, swaying high-rises in Bangkok and Vietnam's capital.
Residents of Chiang Mai, northern Thailand's biggest city, felt prolonged shaking but saw no major damage.
Chiang Mai resident Petchnoi Osathaphan …
Read moreBANGKOK - Pope Francis arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday to begin a tour of Thailand and Japan, beginning a mission to boost the morale of those countries' tiny minority Catholic communities and speak about issues of concern including human trafficking and peacemaking.
He is …
Read moreKUALA LUMPUR - A Thai court Wednesday convicted opposition party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit of holding shares in a media company while running for office, an election law breach that disqualifies the rising star of the country's pro-democracy movement from Parliament.
The Constitutional Court ruled …
Read moreBANGKOK - The last time Vararunee Khonchanath was in the presence of a pope was before she was born just over 35 years ago, but when Pope Francis visits Bangkok later this week to bless Thailand's tiny Catholic minority she will be singing in …
Read moreTAIPEI - An agreement among Southeast Asian leaders this month to fight floating plastics in the South China Sea and surrounding waterways marks an upswing in cooperation among countries that normally compete over sovereignty.
Heads of state from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian …
Read moreMELBOURNE - Samoa declared a state of emergency this weekend, closing all schools and cracking down on public gatherings, after several deaths linked to a measles outbreak that has spread across the Pacific islands.
The island state of about 200,000, south of the equator …
Read moreHONG KONG - Dozens of Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers helped clear protester barricades from a street Saturday, emerging from their barracks for the first time since protests engulfed the semiautonomous Chinese territory five months ago.
Pro-democracy lawmakers immediately condemned the move as a …
Read morePolice in the Lao capital Vientiane detained eight people this week who were planning protests calling for free speech and condemning land grabs and dam projects, later releasing six of them, RFA's Lao Service learned on Friday.
The arrests took place on Nov. 11 …
Read moreExiled Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy praised Indonesia's democracy on Thursday in Jakarta as he pondered his plans to return to Phnom Penh, where the government released dozens of activists detained for aiding his challenge to strongman ruler Hun Sen.
Rainsy, acting head of …
Read more