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BANGKOK -- Myanmar civil servants and officials of the military regime began evacuating the eastern town of Myawaddy on the Thai-Myanmar border on Sunday night in one of the most significant setbacks for the regime since its takeover on Feb. 1, 2021.
Weeks after Myanmar's military government announced a nationwide draft, two young women from far-flung parts of the Southeast Asian country headed to the jungles to take up arms against the junta.
BANGKOK -- Thailand is stepping up the promotion of its traditional form of boxing, Muay Thai, to draw tourists and to counter Cambodia's claim that it is the actual birthplace of the martial art. The government plans to create a new visa for people coming to the Southeast Asian country to learn Muay Thai, and introduced the martial art in a recent multinational military exercise.
BANGKOK -- Chinese auto giants are poised to challenge Japan's dominance in Thailand's pickup truck market by rolling out hybrid and electric pickups, pointing to upheaval in the Thai automotive industry.
BANGKOK -- The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Julie Bishop, a former Australian foreign minister, as his next special envoy for Myanmar. The position has been vacant since Noeleen Heyzer, a former U.N. undersecretary-general, left the post after 20 months in June 2023.
BANGKOK -- Where is Chuwit Kamolvisit? Until recently, Thailand's colorful "massage parlor king," politician and anti-corruption campaigner was one of the capital's most prominent public performers, wowing crowds in the lobby of an upmarket hotel with tales of illegal gambling, Chinese triads and corrupt politicians.
BANGKOK — Thailand's influential former premier Thaksin Shinawatra has praised ally and Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin as a suitable leader during a "transition" while highlighting his own daughter's credentials as head of the ruling Pheu Thai party.
BANGKOK - A Thai court is holding hearings on a petition seeking to reopen one of the most controversial cases in the country's modern history, the death of King Ananda Mahidol who was found shot dead in his bedroom in 1946 at the age of 20.