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Myanmar junta expels top UK diplomat for refusing to present credentials

  THE SENIOR British diplomatic representative to Myanmar, Pete Vowles, who has been locked out of the country since late February after refusing to present his credentials has now been expelled from the country, Matichon newspaper said this evening (July 13). Vowles, who arrived in Myanmar late last year as Britain’s ambassador but did not

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Health

Hungarian diplomat infected with Covid-19 amid vaccine hope

THE Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced at 11 a.m. today (Nov.10) that a Hungarian diplomat in Bangkok has been infected with coronavirus with there also being three more overseas arrivals found to be similarly infected and all four placed in state quarantine, Thai Rath newspaper reported. The male Hungarian diplomat, 53, did come

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