Tag: Thailand

A Thai worker adjusts batches of dried silk thread after it was dyed in Bangkok on Thursday, July 31, 2014. A surge in silk yarn prices has attracted more silk farmers in the last two years, according to the Queen Sirikit Department of Sericulture. Most Thai silk is used in the domestic market but plans are afoot to increase production. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Image of Asia: Weaving silk in Thailand

The Associated Press · July 31, 2014 12:40 pm

In this photo taken July 10, 2014, motorcyclists and a pedestrian wait for a train to pass as they cross a rail track in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's military government approved a massive budget to upgrade the country's railways including high-speed rails that would eventually link with China as part of an eight-year plan to improve infrastructure, officials said Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Thai junta sets plan for fast rail links to China

Washington Examiner · July 30, 2014 2:27 pm

Secretary-General of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Gen. Paiboon Koomchaya, who also in charge of legal and justice affairs, speaks during a news conference at the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Thailand adopted a temporary constitution on Tuesday, taking its first step toward the slow return of electoral democracy after two months of military rule. But the charter's clauses allow the ruling junta to continue to hold substantial power even after an interim Cabinet and legislature take office. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

New constitution gives Thai junta sweeping powers

Thanyarat Doksone · July 23, 2014 1:53 pm

FILE - In this June 13, 2014 file photo, Thailand's Army commander Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, left, arrives at the Royal Thai Army Club in Bangkok, Thailand. Critics and journalists raised concerns Saturday, July 19, 2014 about the Thai military government's latest move to tighten its grip on the media by banning them from criticizing the junta's operations and threatening to immediately suspend the broadcast or publication of content that defies the order. Critics said the order to censor all forms of media was expansive and contradicted the message the coup leader, Gen. Prayuth, has attempted to send to the Thai people. (AP Photo/ASTV Manager newspaper, File) THAILAND OUT

Thai junta’s gag on media raises alarm, criticism

Thanyarat Doksone · July 19, 2014 1:35 pm

In this picture take on May 7, 2014. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra talks to media during a press conference in Bangkok, Thailand. An anti-corruption body has recommended criminal charges against the ousted Thai prime minister over her government's rice subsidy program. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Criminal charge recommended against ousted Thai PM

Thanyarat Doksone · July 17, 2014 1:46 pm

Armed Thai soldiers and local officials inspect the Patong beach during a clean up operation Wednesday, July 9, 2014, in Phuket, southern Thailand. Thailand's new military junta sent soldiers to one of the country's best known beaches Wednesday to evict food hawkers, massage huts and other illegal vendors as part of a campaign to clean-up the country's image and enforce laws that have long been ignored. (AP Photo/Krissada Mueanhawong)

Thai soldiers hit the beach in cleanup campaign

Thanyarat Doksone · July 9, 2014 12:41 pm

Raid by Thai police exposes human trafficking ring

Washington Examiner · July 9, 2014 11:42 am

In this photo taken June 13, 2014, Chalad Worachat lies on the ground during a hunger strike outside the Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand. Over the past decades, Chalad has resisted military regimes and dictatorial legislation by staging hunger strikes, five of them. Now the 71-year-old onetime parliamentarian is back on water and honey, despondent that after so many years and so much bloodshed, Thailand has been unable to break out of a vicious cycle of military coups to achieve true democracy. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Clash of values mires Thailand in cycle of coups

Denis Gray · June 28, 2014 8:07 am

US: Thai coup repressive, likely to last

Matthew Pennington · June 25, 2014 1:16 am

In this undated photo, former Thai Interior Minister and former leader of Pheu Thai Party Charupong Reuangsuwan speaks at a news conference at the party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. Charupong established a group in exile to oppose the military regime and said Tuesday, June 24, 2014 in an open letter read on YouTube and posted on Facebook that the Organization of Free Thais for Human Rights and Democracy rejects the junta's legitimacy. (AP Photo)

Ex-minister forms Thai opposition group from exile

Washington Examiner · June 24, 2014 12:52 pm

Migrant workers unload frozen fish from a boat at a fish market

US blacklists Thailand, Malaysia over trafficking

Matthew Pennington · June 20, 2014 3:31 pm

In this photo taken June 19, 2014, tourists, front left, talk to each other in front of a group of taxi drivers at a taxi stand at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Since staging a coup on May 22, the military has led a crackdown on crime as part of what army commander Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha describes as a morality cleanse for Thai society. Before democracy can be restored, he says, corruption and lawlessness have to stop. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Junta targets crime to clean up Thailand’s image

Jocelyn Gecker · June 20, 2014 1:05 pm