By Reuters staff and Al Jazeera ANDREW Wheeler, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, is to visit Taiwan, the island’s premier said today (Nov. 20), in what will be the third visit by a senior US official since August. Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang told reporters interactions between the US and Taiwan had been
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Police confirm ‘pink shirt’ gunman is a People’s Party guard
METROPOLITAN Police confirmed that the gunman wearing a pink shirt who shot at protesters outside the Parliament last Tuesday (Nov. 17) was a People’s Party guard and not a yellow-shirt member, Siam Rath newspaper reported this afternoon (Nov. 20, 2020). The violent confrontation between the two rival groups of protesters led to six people being
Read moreFamily of five dies in Doi Inthanon accident
A SAD ACCIDENT occurred in Chiang Mai this afternoon (Nov.20) after a pickup truck carrying a family of five, the couple and their three daughters, overturned while coming down from the top of Thailand’s highest mountain Doi Inthanon, Sanook.com reported. The accident occurred at 12.50 p.m. when the Bangkok-registered black pickup truck flipped over on
Read moreVocational group founder says from New Zealand his faction not quitting
THE founder of Gear of Democracy vocational group Mr. Eakapop Luara said from New Zealand where he is taking refuge that his group is not withdrawing support from anti-government protesters as has been claimed, Thai Rath newspaper reported today (Nov. 20,2020). Eakapop, aka Tang Vocational, who is a fugitive from a lèse majesté , or Section
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