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Bahraini refugee footballer begins open-ended hunger strike in Thailand
Dec 09, 2018 07:01Bahraini footballer Hakeem Ali al-Araibi has launched an open-ended hunger strike in protest against an “unfair decision by a Thai court to arrest” him and prevent him from returning to his place of residence in Australia.
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Thailand warned against deporting dissident footballer to Bahrain
Dec 02, 2018 07:19Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Thailand to refrain from deporting a dissident footballer to Bahrain where he might face prosecution for expressing his anti-government views.
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Hundreds missing after hydropower dam collapse in Laos
Jul 24, 2018 11:33Hundreds of people are missing and an unknown number believed dead after the collapse of a hydropower dam under construction in southeast Laos, state media reported Tuesday.
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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.