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Captain of Thai boys soccer team that was trapped in cave in 2018 dies in Britain
FILE PHOTO: Duangpetch Promthep introduces himself during the news conference in Chiang Rai, Thailand July 18, 2018. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo
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Massive fire at Cambodia hotel casino kills at least 19 people
A man points next to a destroyed part of the Grand Diamond City hotel-casino following a major fire in Poipet on December 29, 2022. - About 10 people are dead and more than a dozen on life support after a fire at a Cambodian border casino, with photos from the scene showing people desperately huddled on ledges and perched on windowsills in a bid to escape the flames. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) (Photo by LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Charles Sobhraj, convicted killer from Netflix’s ‘The Serpent,’ arrives in France from Nepal
French serial killer Charles Sobhraj (C) sits in an aircraft departing from Kathmandu to France, on December 23, 2022. - French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, was freed on December 23 after spending almost 20 years in a Nepali prison. (Photo by Atish PATEL / AFP) (Photo by ATISH PATEL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Two survivors found from Thai navy ship that sank Sunday
A rescued sailor from HTMS Sukhothai corvette is transferred on land at the Bangsaphan deep port in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. The warship sank on Sunday in rough seas in the Gulf of Thailand. (AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)
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Thai navy searching for 31 missing sailors after warship sinks in rough seas
In this photo provided by the Royal Thai Navy, the HTMS Sukhothai corvette warship lists off the coast of Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. The Thai navy ship sunk in the Gulf of Thailand and ships and helicopters were working Monday to rescue sailors from the water. (Royal Thai Navy via AP)
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Hong Kong leader John Lee tests positive for COVID-19 after APEC
FILE - Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee attends the APEC Leaders' Informal Dialogue with Guests during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov. 18, 2022. The Hong Kong government said Monday, Nov. 21, 2022 that leader John Lee tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in Thailand. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Trudeau’s visit to APEC aimed at showing Canada serious about ties with Southeast Asia
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha (not pictured) during a meeting at Government House, ahead of APEC Summit 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand, 17 November 2022. Rungroj Yongrit/Pool via REUTERS
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Cremations readied in Thailand for victims of deadly daycare centre attack
Buddhist monks, army personnel and volunteers work on the funeral pyre preparations for the cremation ceremony of the victims of mass shooting in the town of Uthai Sawan, in the province of Nong Bua Lam Phu, Thailand, October 10, 2022. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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CNN crew fined for working in Thailand on tourist visas, but cleared of wrongdoing
Chief executive of Uthai Sawan Sub-district Administrative Organization Danaichok Boonsom, talks to reporters at a police station in Uthai Sawan, north eastern Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. Thai police are investigating a report that a CNN crew inappropriately entered the daycare center where more than 20 preschoolers were slain as they were reporting on the attack, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Families of Thailand day care shooting victims at leave offerings ahead of funerals
NONG BUA LAMPHU, THAILAND - OCTOBER 09: The relatives of a victim gathers at Wat Rat Samakee to pray for and watch after the body of their loved ones on October 09, 2022 in Uthai Sawan subdistrict, Nong Bua Lamphu, Thailand. Local media reports said that former police officer Panya Kamrab, 34, had killed at least 37 people, including 24 children - some as young as 2 - in a mass shooting and stabbing at a child care center in northeast Thailand. The assailant subsequently shot himself and his family, police said. The shooting comes two years after a disgruntled soldier killed 29 people in a shooting at a mall in 2020. (Photo by Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)
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Grief and shock in Thailand one day after deadly daycare centre attack
Relatives react after identifying the body of a loved one at Sri Uthai temple in Na Klang district, following a mass shooting in the town of Uthai Sawan in the province of Nong Bua Lam Phu, Thailand October 7, 2022. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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Former police officer kills at least 36 at Thailand day care centre
People gather outside of a daycare center's scene of a mass shooting in the town of Uthai Sawan, 500 km (310 miles) northeast of Bangkok in the province of Nong Bua Lamphu, Thailand October 6, 2022. Sakdipat Boonsom/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
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Myanmar’s exiled beauty queen lands in Canada after Thai airport limbo
FILE - Thaw Nandar Aung, a model from Myanmar speaks to a reporter in Bangkok, Thailand on March 31, 2021. The model, also known as Han Lay, who denounced her country's military rulers last year and feared being arrested if she was forced back home from exile, has flown to Canada early Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, which she says has granted her asylum. (AP Photo/Napaxalun Sattayatam, File)
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Thitikul beats Kang in playoff, LPGA rookie wins second event
Atthaya Thitikul, of Thailand, holds her trophy after winning the LPGA Walmart NW Arkansas Championship golf tournament, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, in Rogers, Ark. (AP Photo/Michael Woods)
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Sri Lanka’s ousted President Rajapaksa returns home after fleeing country, official says
A convoy of vehicles said to be transporting former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa convoy leaves Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo early September 3, 2022. - Sri Lanka's deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned to the country, an airport official said, seven weeks after he fled in the face of angry protests over the island's worst-ever economic crisis. (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP) (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Thai protesters say Prime Minister exceeds term limit, must step down
Anti-government protesters shout "Prayuth get out" as they gather in front of Democracy Monument to demand that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha step down from his position in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Thailand Constitutional Court on Monday received a petition from opposition lawmakers seeking a ruling on whether Prayuth has reached the legal limit on how long he can remain in office. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Wave of overnight arson and bombing attacks hit Thailand’s southernmost provinces
Emergency service members work in front of a shop after an explosion ripped through the southern Thailand province of Yala in what appeared to be multiple coordinated attacks in several locations, in Yala, Thailand August 17, 2022. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom
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China sending fighter jets, bombers, to Thailand for joint military exercises
FILE - In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, air force and naval aviation corps of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) fly planes at an unspecified location in China, Aug. 4, 2022. The Chinese air force is sending fighter jets and bombers to Thailand for a joint exercise with the Thai military on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. (Fu Gan/Xinhua via AP, File)
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Sri Lanka’s ousted president arrives in Thailand for temporary stay
FILE PHOTO: Sri Lanka's then president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, presenting his national statement during the World Leaders' Summit at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain November 1, 2021. Andy Buchanan/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo/File Photo
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U.S. to return to Cambodia 30 antiquities looted from historic sites
Some of the Cambodian antiquities recovered by the United States Attorney's Office are displayed during a news conference in New York, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Officials were announcing the repatriation of 30 antiquities to Cambodia that had been illegally trafficked. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Thai police say at least 13 people killed, 35 injured in night club fire
This handout photo taken and released on August 5, 2022 by the Sawang Rojanathammasathan Rescue Foundation shows firefighters working to contain a fire at the Mountain B nightclub in Sattahip district in Thailand's Chonburi province. - A fire tore through a Thai nightclub early August 5 killing at least 13 people and injuring 40, a rescue services official said. (Photo by Handout / Sawang Rojanathammasathan Rescue Foundation / AFP) / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Sawang Rojanathammasathan Rescue Foundation " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - (Photo by HANDOUT/Sawang Rojanathammasathan Rescue/AFP via Getty Images)
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Thailand PM survives fourth no-confidence vote, last big test before polls
Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha reacts during the 4th no-confidence vote at the parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, July 23, 2022. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
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Thailand makes it legal to cultivate and possess marijuana, but smoking discouraged
A Highland Cafe's staff holds up a piece of cannabis at the Highland Cafe on the first day of removing it from the narcotics list under Thai law in Bangkok, Thailand, June 9, 2022. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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Thai police rescue 59 Rohingya refugees abandoned on southern island
This handout from the Royal Thai Navy taken on June 4, 2022 and released on June 5 shows members of the Thai Navy and park officials offering food to Rohingya found stranded on the Thai island of Koh Dong. - Just under 60 people including five children have been discovered on a southern Thai island, a senior police officer said on June 5, after they said they were abandoned by traffickers en route to Malaysia. (Photo by Handout / ROYAL THAI NAVY / AFP) / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Royal Thai Navy" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/ROYAL THAI NAVY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Tokenization, not crypto, is the future for Canada’s digital economy
Mark Wiseman
canada
Man who died in Northern Ontario plane crash was a fugitive wanted for murder, police say
An Ontario Provincial Police logo is shown during a press conference in Barrie, Ont., on Wednesday, April 3, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Thailand ends mandatory quarantine for vaccinated visitors
FILE - Tourists arrive at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. Thailand announced Friday, April 22, 2022, that visitors who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus will no longer need to undergo any test or quarantine on arrival starting May 1, a measure the authorities hope will help rejuvenate the country’s lucrative tourism industry. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)
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Paralyzed Humboldt Bronco player Ryan Straschnitzki to get upgrade on spinal device
Humboldt Broncos bus crash survivor Ryan Straschnitzki attends a physiotherapy session in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen sets 54-hole record at LPGA Thailand
PATTAYA, THAILAND - MARCH 12: (Left to Right) Nanna Koerstz Madsen of Denmark and Jennifer Kupcho of United States walk on 17th hole putting green during the third round of Honda LPGA Thailand at Siam Country Club Pattaya Old Course on March 12, 2022 in Pattaya, Thailand. (Photo by Thananuwat Srirasant/Getty Images)
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Australian cricket star Shane Warne died of natural causes, Thai autopsy says
Thailand's Police Lieutenant General, Assistant Commissioner-General Surachate Hakparn, Australia's Ambassador to Thailand Allan McKinnon and associate of late Australian cricket player Shane Warne, Andrew Neophitou attend a news conference on Warne's death at Bophut police station in Koh Samui, Thailand, March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha