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Thailand said Friday that it had recognized Palestine as an independent state.
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The United States Embassy in Bangkok warned of a possible attack by “foreign terrorists” against Americans in Thailand. Shortly afterward, the Thai government said it had arrested a Lebanese man.
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Thai authorities have arrested a Lebanese suspect after the U.S. embassy warned of a possible attack in Bangkok, the deputy prime minister said on Friday, adding that police had stepped up security and he was confident the situation would be contained.
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The cabinet approved compensation for victims of the political conflicts that have troubled the country for almost seven years, as the government takes steps toward reconciliation.
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In the twilight of the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, loyalists are leading a campaign to defend him, and the government has intensified a crackdown on criticism of the monarchy.
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Chinese border guards began joint patrols Saturday on the Mekong River with counterparts from Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.
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The Mekong River Commission said representatives from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam have agreed only that there is a need for further study on the impact of the project.
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A court in Thailand on Thursday sentenced an American citizen, Joe Gordon, to two and a half years in prison for defaming the country’s royal family.
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The government refused to give details after news surfaced of a planned prisoner amnesty that the opposition alleges is designed to pardon Thaksin Shinawatra
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In a country deeply divided about the military’s role in civilian life, Thailand’s top generals have used the floods as an opportunity to showcase the army’s softer side.
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Three weeks after floodwaters first arrived in Thailand’s capital, dirty, chest-deep water stubbornly lingers across vast swaths of northern Bangkok.
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Three weeks after floodwaters first arrived in Thailand’s capital, dirty, chest-deep water stubbornly lingers across vast swaths of northern Bangkok.
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The flooding has revealed to the world the scale of industrialization in Thailand and the extent to which two global industries, computers and cars, rely on components made in the country.
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The United Nations estimates that 1.2 million Cambodians have been affected by flooding that has also ravaged neighboring Thailand.
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The main river in Thailand’s capital swelled to a record high on Friday, spilling over its banks and sending water rippling into the grounds of the Grand Palace.
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A test for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, and critics are ready to take advantage of any misstep.
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Thousands of volunteers and soldiers battled to strengthen Bangkok’s flood defenses as water surged to the edges of the city two days after officials proclaimed that the worst was over.
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Experts in water management say it is human activity that is causing nature to run amok as some of the country's worst flooding in half a century bears down on Bangkok.
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The worst floods in more than 50 years threaten to overwhelm barriers protecting Bangkok, and residents should be prepared, said Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong.
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At least 224 people have died in flooding in Thailand since mid-July, and water has inundated the 400-year-old Chai Wattanaram temple in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, a World Heritage Site.
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Authorities pressed for a new investigation into the death of a Reuters cameraman, Hiro Muramoto, and 12 other civilians, who were shot and killed during political unrest in Bangkok last year.
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The United States said Friday that it was disappointed that Thailand had charged an American citizen with insulting the country’s monarchy.
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Japan has granted a visa to Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister of Thailand, who was ousted from power by the Thai military in 2006.
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Thailand’s Parliament elected Yingluck Shinawatra the country’s first female prime minister on Friday, a month after her party won a landslide victory.
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One of Yingluck Shinawatra’s most pressing tasks, as Thailand’s new prime minister, is to prove she’s not a pawn for her brother, the ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra.
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The country is a magnet for those seeking to hide from the law, but immigration officials say they are cracking down.
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Cambodia and Thailand were ordered to withdraw troops from the area around a disputed temple and established a demilitarized zone along their mountainous border.
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The overwhelming victory for the Pheu Thai party was a vindication for Thaksin Shinawatra, a populist champion of Thailand’s rural poor who was ousted in a 2006 coup.
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The paradox of a billionaire family winning the election in Thailand Sunday by championing the have-nots — a notion that flabbergasts its adversaries — was on full display in the hometown of the Shinawatra family.
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The parliamentary election Sunday will be the second since a military coup in 2006 that removed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from power and roiled Thai politics.
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