BANGKOK, Thailand – Thailand’s battered political parties tried to find a replacement for the ousted prime minister as airport authorities hurried Thursday to restore international air links severed by protesters who occupied Bangkok’s two airports for a week.
The airport sieges, which were lifted Wednesday, had stranded more than 300,000 travelers while an unknown number have [...]
BANGKOK, Thailand – The Constitutional Court dissolved Thailand’s top three ruling parties for electoral fraud Tuesday and temporarily barred the prime minister from politics, bringing down a government that faced months of strident protests seeking its ouster.
The ruling set the stage for thousands of protesters to end their seige of the country’s two main airports. [...]
BANGKOK, Thailand – Thailand’s prime minister pledged Friday to use peaceful means to end the siege of the capital’s airports by anti-government protesters and demoted the national police chief, amid speculation that he had disagreed with government policy.
But the likelihood of a violent confrontation still appeared high, as both protesters and police reinforced their presence [...]
BANGKOK, Thailand – Women cooked food, gave free haircuts and distributed ice cream to protesters occupying Bangkok’s international airport Friday as the Thai government backed off from its threat to forcibly evict them to end an economically damaging standoff.
The virtual siege by anti-government protesters on the international Suvarnabhumi airport since Tuesday and the domestic Don [...]
DHAKA, Bangladesh – A tropical storm lashed Bangladesh’s coast, killing at least 15 people and injuring 200 more, rescue officials said Tuesday.
The storm, spawned by a depression in the Bay of Bengal, struck late Monday, inundating hundreds of villages, leveling several thousand huts and knocking down electricity poles, officials said.
The officials spoke on condition of [...]
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Pro-independence protesters in southern Taiwan pushed an envoy from rival China to the ground on Tuesday while shouting that their island does not belong to Beijing.
The attack on Vice Chairman Zhang Mingqing of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait was shown on television news broadcasts and comes amid improving relations [...]
YEONGJONG ISLAND, South Korea - The North Korean trembled when he spotted the leaflet that had fluttered down from a balloon dispatched from the South. He snatched it, stuffed it into his pocket and ran to the bathroom to read it.
Park Sang-hak says he read that slip of vinyl - which bragged about the [...]
BANGKOK, Thailand - The leaders of Thailand’s anti-government protesters said Thursday they will surrender to police after a court dropped treason charges against them, but vowed to continue their sit-in at the prime minister’s office after posting bail.
Sondhi Limthongkul said he and other leaders of the People’s Alliance for Democracy would report to police [...]
BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand suffered its worst political violence in more than 16 years as police battled protesters who besieged the Parliament Tuesday in their struggle to change the country’s system of democracy. One woman died and more than 400 people were injured.
The army moved into the streets of the capital, Bangkok, while most [...]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan’s military has ordered its forces to open fire if U.S. troops launch another air or ground raid across the Afghan border, an army spokesman said Tuesday. The orders, which come in response to a highly unusual Sept. 3 ground attack by U.S. commandos, are certain to heighten tensions between Washington and [...]
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