Thailand’s Senate Overwhelmingly Approves a Landmark Marriage Equality
June 18, 2024 4:26 AM EDT BANGKOK — Thailand’s Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve a marriage equality bill, clearing the last legislative hurdle...
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Fire at Bangkok’s Chatuchak Market Kills 1,000 Caged Animals
A fire has killed around 1,000 caged animals at Bangkok’s Chatuchak Weekend Market, one of South East Asia’s largest open air markets. The early morning...
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Bangkok Pride in Full Swing as Marriage Equality Seems Close
Thousands of people flocked to the streets of Thailand’s capital Bangkok on Saturday to mark Pride Month, the first to be celebrated with a sense...
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Thailand’s Cannabis Recriminalization Risks Protests and Lawsuits
Thailand’s move to reclassify cannabis as a narcotic threatens to trigger street protests and class-action suits by owners of thousands of dispensaries which sprung across...
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Thai Officials Say Releasing Fish for Good Karma Is Bad
Good intentions can sometimes be misguided. Thailand’s freshwater ecosystems this khbrknews of year are a testament to that. Ahead of the Buddhist holiday of Songkran,...
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Thailand’s Russian Invasion: Tourists Seek War-Escapism
It’s just past 11 p.m. on Phuket’s neon-festooned Bangla Road and revelers are out in force, though the heady atmosphere is distinctly more Sochi than...
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Thailand: Court to Hear Case Seeking to Dissolve Popular Move Forward
Thailand’s Constitutional Court has accepted a petition to disband the nation’s largest opposition party that was previously found guilty of breaching the charter over efforts...
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Thailand Lawmakers Pass Historic Marriage Equality Bill
Thailand’s lawmakers passed a legislation to recognize same-sex marriage, paving the way for the country to become the first in Southeast Asia to guarantee marriage...
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‘Release my son’: Thai families plea for help for loved ones kidnapped
Issued on: 12/10/2023 – 15:27Modified: 12/10/2023 – 16:55 02:08 Among the hundreds killed after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched its unprecedented attack on Israel...
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Thai protest leader handed 4-year prison term on charges of insulting
A Thai court on Tuesday jailed one of the leading figures in the kingdom’s youth-led pro-democracy protest movement for four years on royal insult charges....
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Thai lawmakers set to choose a new prime minister
Thai lawmakers are gathering Thursday to select a new prime minister, a process whose outcome is far from certain even though the country’s most progressive...
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Duangphet Promthep: Boy rescued from Thai cave in 2018 dies in UK
London CNN — Duangphet Phromthep, one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded Thai cave after a weekslong operation that drew global attention in...