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Harvesting Insects Can Help in World Food Crisis

"It doesn't take long for a food crisis to scar a generation of children with long-lasting brain and physical damage. It is urgent people get access to essential proteins, and one source that can help in...

created by Hopenow | 1 year ago | updated 20 wks ago
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A red shirt pro-democracy protester shows what she wants.

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Thailand political unrest continues as hundreds of thousands rall

Less than five months after yellow-shirted anti-government protesters seized and closed Bangkok’s two airports stranding hundreds of thousands of international tourists, the country is headed towards further...

created by photo_journ | 39 wks ago
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Thailand on the edge ahead of mass pro-democracy rally

Tonight Thailand sits on the edge. After weeks of small-scale pro-democracy rallies throughout the country, a mass march and the surrounding of Government House by red-shirted pro-democracy protesters, and nightly video calls from deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra,...

created by photo_journ | 39 wks ago
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Northwestern Thailand Should Not Be Overlooked By Travelers

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Northwestern Thailand Should Not Be Overlooked By Travelers

Often forgotten or dismissed, the Northwestern region of Thailand provides ideal territory for those looking at alternative destinations away from the madding crowd. Partially due to relative inaccessibility and...

created by TomAikins | 1 year ago | updated 51 wks ago
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Songkran Celebrations In Thailand

April 13th has special significance as it is Songkran Day, the traditional Thai New Year Festival, which until 1940 used to be the Siamese New Year. The festival is the most important in the Thai calendar...

created by TomAikins | 1 year ago
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Leaving Thailand? Mind your pees and queues

"Passengers compared notes on how long they had been stranded (being based in Bangkok, I scored poorly) and tried to out-do each other with tales of hardship and woe. All the while, airline staff...

created by adrock2xander | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Empty Planes Fly Out of Bangkok Airport

Thai authorities have a struck a deal with protesters that has allowed approximately 40 airplanes to fly out of Bangkok's international airport. The empty planes were flown to other Thai airports in the hopes of...

created by Jon Azpiri | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Thailand Government Rejects Army Call to Dissolve Parliament

One person was shot by gangs today as protests in Thailand continued. Thousands of passengers were grounded when protesters stormed the international airport. The government rejected calls from the country's...

created by Rob Walker | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Activists send female underwear to Burmese embassies

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Activists send female underwear to Burmese embassies

Allrighty then..." Activists exasperated at the failure of diplomacy to apply pressure on Burma's military regime are resorting to a new means of protest against the regime's recent crackdown: sending female...

created by greg1usa | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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13 Asian nations to set up $80-billion crisis fund

Amidst the news of US recession and growth slow down many emerging Asian countries have come together to form a foreign exchange pool to thwart any crisis in future. " Madrid: Finance ministers of 13 Asian...

created by Sanjay Jha | 1 year ago
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Thailand's king pardons Swiss man

"Thailand's king has pardoned a Swiss man who was sentenced to 10 years in jail for defacing images of him. Oliver Jufer was sentenced last month, after he admitted spray-painting images of the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the city of Chiang Mai. It was thought to be...

created by AlanEvans | 2 years ago
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Corrupt Australian Federal Police Liason Officers

See www.postcards-from-chiamgmai.com it's a true story about how a Moraly Corrupt Australian Federal Police Officer, working in Thailand and members of a US NGO based in Thailand (International Justice Mission) destroyed an innocent mans life for their own gain.

created by christopherrwhite | 2 years ago
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Woman on the wrong bus lost for 25 years

If I had 8 kids, I'd get lost for 25 years, too!

created by crap-princess | 2 years ago
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Thailand Travel Info: Tours of The Royally Initiated Projects

The joyous occasion of H.M. King Bhumibol’s 80th Birthday Anniversary this year is a great opportunity for us Thai people to show our deepest loyalty and enormous respect for His Majesty and his royal family. One way of doing so is to truly appreciate what they have...

created by yuki363 | 2 years ago
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Blast at mosque in northern Thailand

A SMALL homemade bomb exploded at a mosque in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai on today, injuring a Myanmar migrant worker, police said. Witnesses told police that two men riding a motorcycle threw the explosive device at the mosque in central Chiang Mai. The migrant...