Oct 16-18 critical for capital

Wider and worse levels of flooding in store as huge volumes of water head towards provinces

Residents of many provinces face imminent flooding - or the worsening of existing flooding - as massive amounts of water move towards their areas from parts further north. The run-off water is set to reach Bangkok between ( Read more... )

The mainstream Western LGBT movement has become a commercialized monolith in the years since 1960s “gay liberation,” and its impact is in no way limited to the US and Europe.

This mainstream movement not only embraces a “with us or against us” mentality that demands queer people come out (as L, G, B, or T only) or be left behind, but it also creates ( Read more... )

Thailand seeks to ban tourists' Buddha tattoos

Thailand's Culture Ministry says foreign tourists should be barred from getting Buddhist tattoos while visiting because the practice is culturally insensitive ( Read more... )

Thailand, Cambodia Foreign Ministers to Face Off at UN

Thailand and Cambodia's are to make their case before the United Nations in New York over deadly border fighting that erupted a week ago. Cambodia wants U.N. peacekeepers sent to prevent further clashes. But Thailand rejects any U.N. involvement.

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Thailand's Red Shirt protest leaders say they are formally ending their anti-government protest and will surrender to authorities to prevent more deaths.

The announcement came after the army overran their heavily barricaded encampment in central Bangkok on Wednesday.

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Thai troops have reportedly fired warning shots ahead of a possible operation to evict anti-government protesters from their camp in the middle of Bangkok.

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A little bit of background and analysis of the current situation in Thailand.A first peace mission suggests itself for David Cameron, Britain's newly elected prime minister. Why not head to Bangkok to talk his two-years-older Eton and Oxford fellow student and Thai counterpart, Abhisit Vejjajiva, out of the dreadful, bloody mess he's helped create ( Read more... )

THE conflict in Thailand has reached a turning point, with the army demanding all women and children leave a fortified protest camp in the centre of Bangkok by 6pm, Sydney time, today as the death toll from four days of bloody street battles rose to 30.The Thai army has warned protesters to leave the camp before they begin a final offensive to ( Read more... )

BANGKOK -- Anti-government protesters set fire to a police bus down the street from Japanese and U.S. embassies in central Bangkok after troops fired tear gas Friday in a burst of new violence after nightlong clashes left one person dead.

The fighting, which so far has claimed 30 lives and injured hundreds since anti-government Red Shirt ( Read more... )

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