Massive wildfires raging across northern Thailand have created a severe smog crisis as air quality readings in Chiang Mai province exceeded hazardous levels for more than two consecutive weeks, officials warned Monday.
Although three-quarters of migrants surveyed in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand said they suffered some type of abuse while leaving their homelands via people-smuggling networks, nearly half said they would do it again, the United Nations said in a report released Tuesday.
Torrential rains and landslides in Papua New Guinea have caused about two dozen deaths over the past week while king tides have brought on fresh water and food shortages for thousands of people in coastal areas, officials said.
Eight days after they hijacked a Bangladesh ship and detained its 23 crew members, Somali pirates contacted the owner of the MV Abdullah on Wednesday for the first time but made no ransom demands, company and government officials said.
A Thai court on Tuesday sentenced a Chinese businessman and three accomplices to 50 years in prison following their convictions on charges of operating a transnational ring that paid Thai women to serve as surrogate mothers.
Two decades after the disappearance of human rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit, his case continues to reverberate in Thailand.Somchai’s abduction from a Bangkok Street sparked a long campaign for stricter anti-torture legislation – which was finally passed in 2022
Ten years have passed since Jacquita Gonzales hugged her husband, Malaysia Airlines flight supervisor Patrick Gomes, before he left their Petaling Jaya home on March 8, 2014.
Authorities in Dhaka said they have begun cracking down on unsafe restaurants after 46 people died in a fire last week that gutted a multi-story shopping mall and started in an eatery on the ground floor.
Thousands of illegal connections on lines belonging to Bangladesh’s largest gas transmission and distribution company can lead to deadly explosions in Dhaka and other places, including the industrial hub of Narayanganj, officials and analysts said.
As part of Bangkok Gov. Chadchart Sittipunt’s policy to clean up the capital’s sidewalks, Somsak’s soy milk cart is among dozens forced to move from their original locations. The cart used to be on a sidewalk in Silom, where malls and offices are located, but it was moved to a little alley nearby.
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