🇹🇭 Toxic 'time bomb' threatens Mekong river basin
Pollution in the Mekong has put the health and livelihood of Thai fisherman Somdet Singthong at risk - arsenic has been found in his fingernails and urine and the fish are contaminated.
AFP REPORTAGE: Broken computer monitors in bombed-out offices, fake police uniforms and phoney hundred-dollar bills: these were the vestiges of a frantic escape of suspected cyberscammers fleeing a resort on the Cambodia-Thailand border.
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For three months, Thai retiree Somkid Kijniyom has been sleeping in a small boat in the waist-high waters that have filled his home.
Thailand's Ayutthaya province, home to a UNESCO-listed ancient city, is experiencing its worst flooding in years.
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Myanmar scam cities booming despite crackdown -- using Musk's Starlink.
They said they had smashed them. But fraud factories in Myanmar blamed for scamming Chinese and American victims out of billions of dollars are still in business and bigger than ever, an AFP investigation reveals
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#UPDATE More than 100,000 people have fled the bloodiest border fighting between Thailand and Cambodia in a decade, Thai interior ministry says
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'Hit my heart': trial of Hong Kong editors leave journalists in tears.
The landmark trial became a battleground for debate about the merits and limits of press freedom in Hong Kong, which once boasted one of the freest media environments in the world
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#UPDATE Paetongtarn, the kingdom's youngest ever PM, comes to office after a court sacked the previous premier and disbanded the main opposition party, throwing Thailand's ever-febrile political scene into a new round of turmoil.
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The 37-year-old daughter of billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra has become Thailand's prime minister, the third member of the influential but divisive clan to lead the country
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#UPDATE Thai lawmakers on Friday elected Paetongtarn Shinawatra as the kingdom's new prime minister, according to an @AFP tally of votes cast on live television.
The 37-year-old daughter of billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra is the youngest person to become Thai prime minister and the second woman to hold the job, after her aunt
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For over a week I was in and out of Toretsk and its surrounding area. A mining town in the Donetsk region that compared to others in war-scarred east Ukraine was nestled in a relatively sleepy sector of the front line. It’s not anymore.
Divers turn conservationists as corals bleach worldwide.
Nannalin Pornprasertsom is one of a growing number of scuba divers learning conservation and citizen science techniques as coral reefs experience a fourth global bleaching event
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