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Non-Thais skew EC map: Wissanu

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam on Monday suggested that the Election Commission (EC) ask the Constitutional Court for a ruling after its calculation of the number of people represented per MP was found to include non-Thai nationals.

Bangkok Post · Feb 6, 2023

Bomb Hits Bus Transporting Police in South Syria, Wounding 15

A roadside bomb targeting a bus transporting Syrian police in the country’s south Monday wounded 15 of the officers, the Interior Ministry said. The ministry said in a terse statement that the officers were returning to the capital Damascus from the southern province of Daraa. The bomb exploded on the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 30, 2023

Princess brings designers to local weavers

A group of top Thai fashion designers paid a visit to local weavers this week in the northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon to share their experience on how to turn traditional woven cloth into high-end products.

Bangkok Post · Jan 25, 2023

In Mexico, a reporter published a story. The next day he was dead

Just after sunset on Thursday, February 10th, two men in a white Dodge Ram pickup pulled up in front of Heber Lopez Vasquez's small radio studio in southern Mexico. One man got out, walked inside and shot the 42-year-old journalist dead. Lopez's 12-year-old son Oscar, the only person with him,…

Reuters · Jan 21, 2023

Ukraine helicopter crash: Inside charred nursery gutted by explosion that killed 18

Three children were killed when a helicopter carrying Ukrainian interior ministry officials plunged into a kindergarten in Brovary, Ukraine - with the death toll expected to rise

Daily Mirror · Jan 18, 2023

‘Bring my mom back’: Ukrainian civilians vanish into Russian jails

Alina Kapatsyna often dreams about getting a phone call from her mother. In those visions, her mother tells her that she’s coming home. Men in military uniforms took 45-year-old Vita Hannych away from her house in eastern Ukraine in April. She never returned.

France 24 · Jan 17, 2023

Ukrainian civilians vanish and languish in Russian-run jails

Many civilians have been detained by Russian forces since the war in Ukraine began

The Independent UK · Jan 17, 2023

Prayut steps up as career politician

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's membership of the United Thai Nation (UTN) Party has changed the political ball game for him as he has now accepted the status of full-time politician, and faces the enormous challenge of consolidating the new party.

Bangkok Post · Jan 15, 2023

Over 7,800 people ordained to pray for ailing princess

Between Jan 8 and 15, 7,813 people entered the monkhood nationwide to pray for the quick recovery of Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendiradebyavati, who is unconscious due to a heart problem, an official said.

Bangkok Post · Jan 15, 2023

Rocket debris found again in Moldova, from war next door

Moldovan authorities said on Saturday that the remains of a rocket “originating from Russia’s air attacks on Ukraine” was found by border officials in a northern village near to the country’s border with war-torn Ukraine

The Independent UK · Jan 14, 2023