By Al Jazeera CHINA has carried out “provocative military movements” in the disputed Himalayan border area between the two countries overnight from Saturday to Sunday, according to an Indian army statement, in a fresh flare-up between the two nuclear-armed countries. Indian troops pre-empted Chinese army’s activity on the Pangong Tso Lake in Ladakh, part of
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Thai Pakdee leader: Guards didn’t punch man wearing red shirt
IN A Facebook post today (August 31) Dr. Warong Dechgitvigrom, leader of right-wing Thai Pakdee group, clarified that the group’s guards had not assaulted a 60-year-old man who was wearing a red shirt near Thai-Japanese Bangkok Youth Centre where yesterday’s gathering had taken place as has been reported online, Naewna newspaper reported this afternoon. Dr.
Read moreDrug runner shot dead, 3 policemen injured in gunfight
THREE PHUKET policemen were severely injured while a drug trafficking suspect was shot dead in a gunfight at his father’s house Nakhon Si Thammarat province after they surrounded it to arrest him with the father helping his son by deeply slashing the throat of one of the policemen, Khaosod newspaper reported today (August 31, 2020).
Read morePM postpones purchase of two additional subs by a year
PRIME Minister and Defence Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha held internal discussions with the navy to postpone the heavily-criticized purchase of the second and third submarines from China by another year, Thai Rath newspaper reported this morning (August 31, 2020). Mr. Anucha Burapachaisri, spokesman of the Prime Minister’s office, said Gen. Prayut has assigned the navy to
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