Thailand ex-PM Thaksin gets royal pardon, parole ends Sunday, lawyer says
Thai former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was included in a royal pardon for prisoners and his parole will end on Sunday, his lawyer Winyat Chartmontri said Saturday.
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Thai former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was included in a royal pardon for prisoners and his parole will end on Sunday, his lawyer Winyat Chartmontri said Saturday.
NUSANTARA, Indonesia - Indonesia celebrated its independence anniversary at the site of its planned new capital, Nusantara, for the first time on Saturday (Aug 17), in a scaled-back ceremony as the still-under-construction city is beset by problems and faces delays.
A surging mpox outbreak in Africa was declared an emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO) this week and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), an EU agency, on Friday said more imported cases to Europe were “highly likely”.
A powerful typhoon that slammed the Tokyo area with heavy rains and brought mudslide warnings in northern Japan headed eastward out into the Pacific Ocean away from the coast on Saturday.
Hospitals hit by 24-hour shutdown as protests demanding protection for health workers and condemning violence swell.
Decades of land reclamation have transformed Melaka’s coast, pushing the original shoreline more than 2km inland. A new mega-project promises to create over 10,000 hectares of additional land along 33km of the city’s coast – further encroaching on the delicate ecosystem and centuries-old landscape of this 14th-century port town.
Ducking as mortar fire exploded around them, Rohingya refugee Mustafa Kamal and his family narrowly escaped the attack by a rebel militia on their town in western Myanmar.
Hospitals and clinics across India turned away patients except for emergency cases on Saturday as medical professionals launched a nationwide strike on Saturday, escalating protests after the “barbaric” rape and murder of their colleague that has channelled outrage at the chronic issue of violence against women.