Irrigation Department to use measure in effort to help Khon Khen people.THE ROYAL Irrigation Department (RID) has decided to use Ubolrat Dam's "dead storage", or water that can only be pumped out, to help people in Khon Kaen and...
SEOUL - North Korea's supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier, who was arrested while visiting the country, to 15 years of hard labour on Wednesday for crimes against the state, a punishment Washington condemned as politically motivated.The US State...
JAKARTA - Indonesia Wednesday installed a prominent police general as its new anti-terror chief at a time when the Muslim-majority nation faces a rising threat from citizens flocking to join jihadists in Syria.Tito Karnavian's promotion to head of the...
YANGON - Myanmar's powerful army chief congratulated incoming president Htin Kyaw and pledged cooperation on Wednesday, after the ally of Aung San Suu Kyi was elected as the country's first head of state with no military background in decades.Suu...
NUSA DUA - Tourist taxi driver Nur-ul Aslam watches in hopeful silence as drops of rain begin to cloud his windscreen.Last year at this time he was farming rice on his two-hectare farm 40 kilometres northeast of Bali's airport....
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BANGKOK - Two executives at a fire-fighting system supplier have been charged with negligence after an accident in which eight people were killed at the headquarters of Siam Commercial Bank, Thai police said on Wednesday.Contractors working on an upgrade...
PESHAWAR - At least fifteen people were killed when a bomb exploded on a bus carrying government officials in the northwest Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar on Wednesday, officials said.The attack took place on a main road after the...
Naypyidaw, Myanmar - Myanmar got its first civilian president in decades on Tuesday after lawmakers elected a close aide of Aung San Suu Kyi, who is expected to hold the real reins of power in the formerly junta-run nation.Htin...
