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Over a hundred injured in Myawaddy fighting treated in Tak province so far: Chonlanan

  PUBLIC Health Minister Chonlanan Srikaew said in Mae Sot town today (Aug. 22) that after fierce fighting broke out across the border in Myawaddy last Saturday Apr. 20  altogether 113 Myanmar citizens have been treated at various hospitals in Tak province with many of them now discharged because they had suffered minor injuries, Amarin

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PM accused of power abuse over police/money laundering scandals

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin was today (Apr. 22) accused of perpetrating power abuse which has allegedly put the National Police headquarters in trouble and rendered injustice to former deputy police chief Pol. Gen. Surachate Hakparn. Pol. Gen. Surachate, nicknamed Big Joke, today filed a complaint with the National Anti-Corruption Commission

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Thailand, Laos, Australia mark 30th anniversary of the Mekong’s first post-war peace project

  THAILAND, Laos and Australia are this week holding a series of activities to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1st Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge, the first infrastructure project to reinforce the peace and promote travel, tourism, transportation and trade as a conduit for the economic development of the post-war Indochina region. The 1,170-kilometre bridge was

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