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Iran retains Asian sitting volleyball championship title
Jun 16, 2019 05:45Iran’s Men’s Sitting Volleyball Team has retained its Para-Volley Asia-Oceania title in Thailand.
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Thai king revokes royal decorations of ex-PM Shinawatra amid election row
Mar 31, 2019 07:36Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has revoked royal decorations that had been awarded to ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a document published on Saturday in the royal gazette showed.
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Thailand’s opposition parties form alliance against junta
Mar 27, 2019 14:02Seven opposition parties in Thailand have agreed to form an alliance in an attempt to seize power from the ruling junta-backed party, which gained power after a 2014 coup.
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Thailand votes in first election since 2014 coup
Mar 17, 2019 09:46Hundreds of thousands of voters crowded into schools, parking lots and temples across Thailand on Sunday, eager to cast an early ballot a week before the country's first election in eight years.
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Thailand to free refugee Bahraini footballer after extradition bid dropped
Feb 11, 2019 13:40Thailand has decided to free a jailed Bahraini footballer with Australian residency after Manama dropped a request for his extradition, a prosecutor in the case says.
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Thailand FM proposes sending refugee Bahraini footballer to another country
Feb 07, 2019 13:18The Thai foreign minister has suggested resolving the case of jailed Bahraini footballer with refugee status in Australia by sending him to a third country or his requested country of asylum instead of extraditing him to Bahrain, where he has to serve a 10-year sentence related to the uprising of 2011 against the ruling Al Khalifah regime.
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Thailand set to hold general elections on March 24
Jan 24, 2019 08:19Thailand's Election Commission has set March 24 as the date for the country's first general elections since the 2014 military coup that overthrew the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
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Australian FM travels to Thailand over Saudi teen’s case
Jan 10, 2019 08:53Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has traveled to Thailand to review the asylum case of an 18-year-old Saudi girl who has been stopped in the Asian country on her way to Australia fleeing purported abuse by her family.
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Saudi Arabia criticized over ‘guardianship’ laws
Jan 10, 2019 06:38A Saudi teen's live-tweeted asylum plea has cast a renewed spotlight on women's rights just months after women won the right to drive, and sparked rare criticism of restrictive "guardianship" laws -- from men.
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Tropical storm in Thailand (Video)
Jan 04, 2019 13:49Thailand's first tropical storm in three decades killed one person on Friday as it arrived on the south coast, knocking down trees and blowing off roofs in its path, but was losing speed, officials said, while warning against the risk of flash floods.