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JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI

JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI

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Asia|World

Myanmar quake death toll rises to 1,644 as resistance movement announces partial ceasefire

A unilateral partial ceasefire to facilitate earthquake relief efforts has been announced by Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government

Myanmar quake death toll rises to 1,644 as resistance movement announces partial ceasefire
Asia|Environment|World

Massive quake rocks Myanmar and Thailand. Hundreds feared dead

A powerful earthquake has rocked Myanmar and caused extensive damage across a wide swath of one of the world’s poorest countries

Massive quake rocks Myanmar and Thailand. Hundreds feared dead
Asia|Political|World

Thai officials secretly planned to deport Uyghurs while making repeated public denials

Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of Uyghur detainees over to China while denying plans to do so in public, giving the detainees and their advocates no chance to make a last-ditch appeal before they were bundled off and sent back to a country where where U.N. experts say they could face torture or other punishment

Thai officials secretly planned to deport Uyghurs while making repeated public denials
Asia|Crime|Political|World

Takeaways from the AP's reporting into what people face in Myanmar after release from forced labor

Thousands of sick, exhausted and terrified young men and women, from countries all over the world squat in rows, packed shoulder to shoulder, surgical masks covering their mouths and, some, their eyes

Asia|Crime|Health|Political|World

They were forced to scam others worldwide. Now thousands are detained on the Myanmar border

Thousands of sick, exhausted and terrified young men and women, from countries all over the world squat in rows, packed shoulder to shoulder, surgical masks covering their mouths and, some, their eyes

They were forced to scam others worldwide. Now thousands are detained on the Myanmar border
Asia|Crime|Political|World

84 Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar are set to go home

Eighty-four Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar are set to return home Friday as the repatriation effort for such workers strains regional resources

84 Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar are set to go home
Asia|Crime|World

84 Indonesians taken out of scam centers in Myanmar are set to go home

Eighty-four Indonesians freed rom scam centers in Myanmar arrived at the Thai border city of Mae Sot earlier on Thursday, part of an ongoing large scale repatriation effort following a crackdown by Thailand, Myanmar and China

84 Indonesians taken out of scam centers in Myanmar are set to go home
Asia|Crime|Political|World

Over 7,000 workers from scam centers in Myanmar are awaiting repatriation after a regional crackdown

A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people from around the world being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation

Over 7,000 workers from scam centers in Myanmar are awaiting repatriation after a regional crackdown
Asia|Business|Crime|Political|World

A top Chinese official tours Thai-Myanmar border to highlight crackdown on scam centers

Efforts to shut down online scam centers in Myanmar appear to gain momentum with a visit by a top Chinese official to the border zone ahead of expected large-scale repatriations of workers in the illicit industry

A top Chinese official tours Thai-Myanmar border to highlight crackdown on scam centers
Asia|Crime|Political|World

260 foreigners rescued from virtual slavery in Myanmar's online scam centers are being repatriated

Thailand's army says some 260 people believed to have been trafficked and trapped into working in online scam centers are to be repatriated after they were rescued from Myanmar

260 foreigners rescued from virtual slavery in Myanmar's online scam centers are being repatriated
Asia|MidEast|World

Who are the five Thai hostages released by Hamas as part of the ceasefire in Gaza?

Five Thai nationals held hostage by Hamas since its attack on Israel have returned home after their release from captivity last month

Asia|MidEast|World

Released Thai hostages return to Bangkok after being held for over a year in Gaza

Five Thai workers released after being held hostage for over a year in Gaza arrived in Bangkok on Sunday

Released Thai hostages return to Bangkok after being held for over a year in Gaza
Asia|Crime|Political|World

Thailand cuts power supplies to Myanmar border towns in effort to curb scam rings

Thailand on Wednesday cut off power supplies to areas in Myanmar where scam networks operate, following a public outcry demanding government action to tackle the problem

Thailand cuts power supplies to Myanmar border towns in effort to curb scam rings
Asia|Lifestyle|Political|World

Same-sex marriages will soon become legal in Thailand after historic law

It is a big day many in Thailand's LGBTQ+ community have long been waiting for, as couples celebrate a law giving them the same legal rights as married heterosexuals

Same-sex marriages will soon become legal in Thailand after historic law
Asia|Travel

Thailand receives the first Chinese visitors under a new visa-free policy to boost tourism

Top Thai officials have welcomed hundreds of Chinese tourists at Bangkok’s international airport on the first day of a new visa-free entry program that officials say will boost tourism

Thailand receives the first Chinese visitors under a new visa-free policy to boost tourism
Asia|Crime|News|World

Shooting at major Bangkok shopping mall kills 2 people, and a teen suspect is arrested

Authorities in Thailand's capital say two people were killed when a teenage boy with a handgun opened fire in a major shopping mall in the center of Bangkok

Shooting at major Bangkok shopping mall kills 2 people, and a teen suspect is arrested
Asia|Lifestyle|World

A year after Thai day care center massacre, a family copes with their grief

In a simply built concrete house a few yards off a dirt road in the rural town of Uthai Sawan in northeastern Thailand, Tawee Lasopha wakes up before sunrise to catch fish from his pond, then moves onto household chores with his wife, cooking breakfast and preparing his grandchildren for school

A year after Thai day care center massacre, a family copes with their grief
Asia|News|World

A modest Buddhist ceremony marks the anniversary of a day care center massacre in Thailand

A quiet ceremony has been attended by about 200 people in a small town in northeastern Thailand marking the one-year anniversary of the country's deadliest mass killing

A modest Buddhist ceremony marks the anniversary of a day care center massacre in Thailand
Asia|MidEast|News|World

Thai and Filipino workers filling labor gap in Israel get caught up in war between Israel and Hamas

The first group of Thai workers evacuated from Israel after the past few days’ bloody events in southern Israel and Gaza have arrived in Bangkok, greeted by anxious relatives and senior officials

Thai and Filipino workers filling labor gap in Israel get caught up in war between Israel and Hamas
News|World

Stay in Israel, or flee? Thai workers caught up in Hamas attack and war are faced with a dilemma

Thai agricultural workers in Israel have shared the fate those killed, kidnapped or forced to run for their lives when Hamas militants stormed into Israel last month in the assault that started the latest Gaza war

Stay in Israel, or flee? Thai workers caught up in Hamas attack and war are faced with a dilemma
MidEast|News|World

Hamas releases 10 Thai hostages, 4 of whom had not been listed as abducted

Hamas freed 10 Thai nationals who were seized in the group’s surprise attack on southern Israel last month

Hamas releases 10 Thai hostages, 4 of whom had not been listed as abducted
Celebrity|Entertainment|Lifestyle

Thailand’s LGBTQ+ community hopeful as marriage equality bill is set to be discussed in Parliament

Naphat Krutthai and Rasithaya Jindasri have been in a committed relationship for eight years, but only now they can consider getting married

Thailand’s LGBTQ+ community hopeful as marriage equality bill is set to be discussed in Parliament
Asia|Crime|Environment

Thailand sends 3 orangutans rescued from illicit wildlife trade back to Indonesia

Three trafficked Sumatran orangutans have been sent back from Thailand to Indonesia as part of a joint effort between the countries to tackle the illegal wildlife trade

Thailand sends 3 orangutans rescued from illicit wildlife trade back to Indonesia
Asia|News

An explosion at a fireworks factory in rural Thailand kills about 20 people

An explosion at a fireworks factory in central Thailand has killed about 20 people, though the devastation at the scene has made the death toll uncertain

An explosion at a fireworks factory in rural Thailand kills about 20 people
Asia|World

Jailed former Thai PM Thaksin gets parole, capping a reconciliation with military that ousted him

Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who last year returned from more than a decade of self-imposed exile to serve a prison sentence for misdeeds committed while in office, has been granted parole and could be released this weekend, the country’s justice minister announced Tuesday

Jailed former Thai PM Thaksin gets parole, capping a reconciliation with military that ousted him

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