Ko Naing* is just the sort of young man Myanmar’s military is looking for. Hoping to make up for recruitment shortfalls and battlefield losses against armed groups fighting to reverse its 2021 coup, Myanmar’s military last month announced plans to enforce a years-old conscription law. Starting in April, the military…
Bangkok, Thailand – Bangkok’s Chinatown, lit up by red-lanterns and decorative banners to celebrate the Lunar New Year holidays, is bustling. As the region welcomed the Year of the Dragon last weekend, ethnic Chinese Thais thronged temples to light candles and pray for good fortune. Inside the glowing red interior…
Justice minister says Thaksin was one of 930 inmates given parole on Tuesday with release expected after February 17. Thailand’s jailed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to be freed, according to local media reports. Thaksin, 74, who was jailed for eight years for abuse of power before a…
Jailed former leader the latest to face prosecution under Thailand’s strict laws protecting monarchy against criticism. Thai police have charged former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra with insulting the monarchy over comments he made almost a decade ago. Officials said on Tuesday that the complaint concerns a 2015 interview that Thaksin…
Sri Lanka seeks to foster growth after its economy contracted 3.8 percent last year, according to World Bank estimates. Thailand and Sri Lanka have signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a move Sri Lanka hopes will help it emerge from its worst financial crisis in decades. “This move aims to…
Karen State, Myanmar – A young fighter looks out from the upper floor in a concrete skeleton of a church that villagers have been building for two years in this small pocket of southeast Myanmar. The construction work has been a slow undertaking, said 21-year-old Zayar, a member of Myanmar’s…
Human rights advocates warned against sending Bi-2 to Russia where they could be persecuted for opposing Ukraine war. Thailand has deported members of a dissident Russian-Belarusian rock band critical of Moscow’s war in Ukraine to Israel after they were detained for performing without a permit. Members of Bi-2 left “safely”…
Bi-2 members, held for performing without permits, have criticised Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin. Members of a dissident Russian-Belarusian rock band critical of Moscow’s war in Ukraine have been jailed in Thailand, with growing calls to not deport them to Russia. Progressive rock group Bi-2’s members remained…
Schools closed, roads and railways submerged and people forced onto their roofs amid torrential rain. Tens of thousands of people in southern Thailand have been affected by severe flooding that has submerged roads and railways, forced schools to close and left some residents trapped in their homes. The province of…
A sleeping cat hugs a fish in a picture seen from the air, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to illustrate a traditional proverb about abundance. Farmer Tanyapong Jaikham and a team of workers planted the seedlings at various spots in the field in…
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