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Starving and bombed children of Yemen seek entrapment in flooded Thai cave
Jul 17, 2018 16:27Why did the world’s corporate media highlight the flooded Thai cave story so graphically and why do so many ordinary people respond with such interest – meaning genuine emotional engagement – in this story?
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Four of trapped Thai schoolboys rescued from flooded cave
Jul 09, 2018 06:23Rescuers working to save 12 schoolboys and their coach who have been trapped in a flooded cave north of Thailand say four of the children have exited the cave.
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Thai cave rescuers racing against water, time to free boys
Jul 07, 2018 13:02A rescue mission for a young Thai soccer team and their coach trapped for two weeks in a flooded cave is at "war with water and time", its leader said on Saturday, but was eyeing its best chance yet to free the group before expected heavy rains.
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Death toll from Thai boat tragedy rises to 27
Jul 06, 2018 12:39Thai rescuers pulled 27 bodies from waters off the coast of the holiday island of Phuket on Friday after a tourist boat went down in heavy seas with dozens of Chinese passengers on board.
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Thai boys, coach receive food, treatment inside cave
Jul 04, 2018 14:42Authorities in Thailand have vowed to take a “no risk” approach to freeing 12 boys and their soccer coach who have been stuck in a flooded cave for at least 10 days, while soldiers hold an evacuation drill to be prepared for the rescue mission.
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Thai protesters urge military rulers to give up power
Feb 10, 2018 17:44About 200 anti-government protesters have rallied in the Thai capital, calling on the country's military rulers to give up power and hold elections they promised soon after staging a coup in 2014.
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Hundreds of police in Thailand block anti-junta march
Jan 20, 2018 08:30Hundreds of police in Thailand on Saturday blocked protesters planning to march from Bangkok to Khon Kaen in the northeast of the country in a rare display of public discontent in the junta-ruled country.
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Pentagon says Myanmar invited to join US-Thai war games
Dec 24, 2017 13:33A US Defense Department spokesman says that Myanmar, which is widely censured for conducting ethnic cleansing against its Rohingya Muslim minority, has been invited to observe major US-Thai war games, dubbed Cobra Gold, along with other Asian militaries.
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How the West is trying to recreate Myanmar’s crisis in Thailand
Oct 15, 2017 20:26The West, led by the US, which has plunged Myanmar into a crisis by unleashing the genocide of Muslims at the hands of the Buddhists, is now trying to repeat the same scenario in neighbourng Thailand. Here is an interesting feature by Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher Tony Cartalucci titled: “How the West Is Trying to Recreate Myanmar’s Crisis in Thailand.”
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Thailand’s ex-PM Shinawatra flees to Dubai ahead of verdict
Aug 26, 2017 08:29Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled to Dubai, senior members of her party said on Saturday, a day after she failed to show up for a negligence ruling in which she faced up to 10 years in prison.