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Inside Thailand's Casablanca: A town of exiles, revolutionaries and fear

The bamboo and leaf-thatch shelter in the middle of a sugarcane field hardly looks like a safehouse. But that is where 23-year-old Sanjay - his...

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An 'impossible' country tests its hard-won democracy

Budiman Sujatmiko has lost none of the passion that he used to show as one of the boldest student opponents of Suharto, the soft-spoken but ruthless...

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Myanmar's army is losing - and facing fire from a militant monk

Last Tuesday, a noisy crowd of several hundred people stood in the small main square of Pyin Oo Lwin, a popular Myanmar hill town, to hear a...

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The man held with the hostages Israel mistakenly killed

"Am I lucky or unlucky?" Wichian Temthong pondered the question. "I guess I'm lucky, because I'm still here, still alive." The 37-year-old farm...

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Xi in Vietnam to mend a love-hate relationship

When Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Phu Trong on Tuesday, on a state visit to Vietnam, expect a fountain of...

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The Chinese mafia's downfall in a lawless casino town

The photographs released by Chinese police showed their officers holding a man and a woman in handcuffs in front of a border gate. They had just been...

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Israel's pain still raw a month after Hamas attacks

It was a day that shattered Israel's sense of its own invincibility and military might, undermining the security felt by every one of its citizens. ...

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Chinese tourists are back - but not in Thailand

For Chinese tourists in Bangkok, 76 Garage, an open-air restaurant on the northern outskirts of the Thai capital, has long been near the top of the...

07.11.2023 60

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The Thais caught up in the Israel-Gaza war

In a village lying close to the Mekong River, Weerapon "Golf" Lapchan sits in the centre of a group of Thai elders as they tie white threads around...

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Thai man charged with beating his children to death

Police in Thailand have charged a man with beating to death his two-year-old daughter and his two infant sons. They suspect Songsak Songsaeng also...

25.09.2023 40

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The last of the great photojournalists

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24.09.2023 4

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Residents trapped in deadly Hanoi apartment blaze

At least eight people are known to have died and dozens were injured in a huge fire in an apartment block in Vietnam's capital Hanoi. Some 70 people...

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