Montira R.

🇹🇭 Thailand Correspondent for @AFP Previously: Fact-Check reporter for @AFPFactCheck, @cityjournalism alumni | email: [email protected]

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'Paris in this heat is awful... We're suffocating in the streets"

Tourists change plans as the heatwave forces the early closures of top Paris tourist hotspots the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, and leave disappointed visitors sweltering with little respite

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Chinese shopping mall hosts rice planting competition

An indoor rice planting competition kicks off at a makeshift paddy field in a shopping mall in Ningbo, China.

“I took a three hour high speed train from Suzhou today just to relive the joy of my childhood,” says Zeng Xiao, one of hundreds to have participated

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From bicycles and surfboards to bags and suitcases, used Japanese goods are drawing crowds in Bangkok as Asia's second-hand market continues to grow.
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Trap, neuter, release: Jakarta battles cat-astrophic stray numbers.

Jakarta is home to one of the biggest urban stray cat populations on Earth - numbering as many as 1.5 million by some counts -- about one for every 10 human inhabitants of the sprawling Indonesian capital

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High-profile alleged sexual abuse case in Thailand prompts wave of painful accounts of abuse from survivors in other cases.

Siranudh Scott, a member of the billionaire family that founded the Singha beer brand, has accused his older brother Sunit of abusing him when he was a teenager

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[Saksith Saiyasombut | ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ไสยสมบัติ @SaksithCNA]

This is a must read: Too often do these stories in mainstream Thai media descend into the salacious sensationalism of the people involved rather than the internalized stigma when it comes to abuse and the systematic failures to protect survivors.

[Montira R. @R_Montira]

One of the pieces I’m truly proud of — interviewing Siranudh Scott (Psi) about his experience with sexual harassment for @AFP and how it sparked a long-overdue conversation in Thailand.

Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham
Video by Eden Ezra

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🇹🇭 A collision between a freight train and a bus killed at least eight people and injured more than 30 in the Thai capital Bangkok on Saturday, police said.
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🇹🇭 Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released early from prison on Monday having served eight months of a one-year sentence for corruption, raising the prospect of a return to the spotlight for the political heavyweight ➡️ https://t.co/rbNLuYFpY8

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Our #AFP report on street food situation in Bangkok with recently opened hawker centre near Lumphini Park

by @AFP team, 📹 @junewatsamon 📝 @R_Montira 📸 @TheLilyfish

[Montira R. @R_Montira]

@ramboPPLE สวัสดีค่ะ สส ติดต่อจากสำนักข่าว AFP ของประเทศฝรั่งเศส รบกวนช่วยติดต่อกลับนะคะ ขอบคุณค่า อยากสอบถามข้อมูลเรื่องเขตดินแดง

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🇹🇭 Thailand's jailed former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be released early from prison next month, the corrections department said on Wednesday.
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Getting around without Google Maps. Not scrolling Instagram. Ditching earbuds to hear the birds sing. A group of 20- and 30-somethings in the US swapped their smartphones for flip phones, embarking on a one-month digital detox. But old habits die hard. https://t.co/gFk1RvUuWe

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🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 Travellers arrive in Europe after war breaks out in Middle East

Travellers reunite with loved ones at European airports -- from London to Paris and Madrid -- after arriving on some of the first flights from the Middle East since the war triggered by US-Israeli attacks on Iran broke out. Tens of thousands of travellers worldwide have been stranded by the conflict
#geneu_AFP

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🛢️ Chart showing the share of crude oil transported through the Strait of Hormuz in the 1Q of 2025, by destination. [2/3]

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🇬🇧 Britain's former Prince Andrew has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct during his time as a trade envoy, as UK police investigations into allegations emerging from the Jeffrey Epstein files gathered pace.
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🇰🇷 Yoon's supporters cry as S.Korean ex-leader gets life in prison

Supporters of South Korea's ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol yell and burst into tears as a court sentences him to life in prison, saying his martial law declaration in December 2024 was a plot to "paralyse" the National Assembly.

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🇹🇭 Thai caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's conservative party, which won a stunning election victory at the weekend, has agreed to form a coalition with jailed ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra's party.
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[June Watsamon T. 🏳️‍🌈 @junewatsamon]

เวอร์ชั่นบทความ by @R_Montira / AFP

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Famed architect Frank Gehry, whose daring and whimsical designs from the Guggenheim Bilbao to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles captivated fans and critics, has died at his home in California. He was 96.