Tag: Thailand

Cambodian migrant workers get off a Thai truck upon their arrival from Thailand at a Cambodia-Thailand's international border gate in Poipet, Cambodia, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. The number of Cambodians who have returned home from Thailand this month after a threatened crackdown on foreigners working illegally has topped 160,000, a Cambodian official said Monday. Thai officials insist the cross-border movement is voluntary and is not forced repatriation. They say Thai military and government resources were used to transport workers who decided to return home after being laid off because they were working illegally. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian workers’ return from Thailand not smooth

Sopheng Cheang · June 17, 2014 2:11 pm

Cambodian exodus from Thailand grows to 160,000

Sopheng Cheang · June 16, 2014 3:25 pm

Thai students play soccer under expressway in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, June 12, 2014. On Thursday, the National Broadcasting and Telecoms Commission announced it had struck a 427 million baht ($13 million) compensation deal with RS so the entire World Cup can be shown on free channels.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Junta engineers World Cup coup for Thailand

THANYARAT DOKSONEJOCELYN GECKER · June 12, 2014 12:16 pm

A Thai shopper watches a soccer match on a flat-panel television at s shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Thailandâs military junta, which promised to âreturn happiness to the peopleâ after last monthâs coup, has asked regulatory officials to find a way to allow the countryâs many soccer fans to watch all of the 2014 World Cup for free. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai junta to ‘return happiness’ through World Cup

Thanyarat Doksone · June 11, 2014 1:18 pm

In this photo taken May 17, 2014, Weluree Ditsayabut, center, poses with two runner-ups Pimbongkod Chankaew, left, and Sunnanipa Krissanasuwan, right, after the Miss Universe Thailand beauty pageant competition in Bangkok, Thailand. Weluree has resigned less than a month into her reign after being harshly criticized on social media over her political comments and looks. (AP Photo)

Thai beauty queen resigns under social media fire

Washington Examiner · June 10, 2014 3:53 am

A protester flashes three fingers, representing liberty, brotherhood and equality, during an anti-coup demonstration at a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, June 1, 2014. Hundreds of demonstrators shouting "Freedom!" and "Democracy!" gathered Sunday near a major shopping mall in downtown Bangkok to denounce the country's May 22 coup despite a lockdown by soldiers of some of the city's major intersections. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

‘Hunger Games’ salute used as protest in Thailand

JOCELYN GECKERTHANYARAT DOKSONE · June 4, 2014 2:08 am

Khamjuan Namwichai, center, greets reporters at a news conference in Honolulu on Tuesday, June 3, 2013. Namwichai spoke in Thai to describe unsanitary conditions working at Hawaii farms, as Mimi Cheou, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) investigator, left, translates. Also pictured are Anna Park, EEOC Los Angeles regional attorney, second from left, and Thai worker Likhit Yoo-on. The U.S. EEOC announced details of settlements totaling $2.4 million by four farms the agency sued for discriminating against hundreds of Thai workers. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)

4 Hawaii farms settle Thai workers suit for $2.4M

JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER · June 3, 2014 11:00 pm

A protester flashes three fingers, representing liberty, brotherhood and equality, during an anti-coup demonstration at a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, June 1, 2014. Hundreds of demonstrators shouting "Freedom!" and "Democracy!" gathered Sunday near a major shopping mall in downtown Bangkok to denounce the country's May 22 coup despite a lockdown by soldiers of some of the city's major intersections. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Thailand’s junta warns over ‘Hunger Games’ salute

THANYARAT DOKSONEJOCELYN GECKER · June 3, 2014 10:03 am

A protester, center, is arrested by plainclothes Thai police officers after staging an anti-coup demonstration in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, June 1, 2014. An anti-coup activist in Thailand called Friday for a weekend rally to defy the military government's ban on demonstrations, urging those opposed to the takeover to wear masks and be ready for cat-and-mouse chases with soldiers in the capital. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Thai police criticized for posing as journalists

Washington Examiner · June 2, 2014 2:39 pm

A woman stops to take a selfie with Thai soldiers stand guard near Victory Monument in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 30, 2014. An anti-coup activist called Friday for a weekend rally to defy the military government's ban on demonstrations, urging those opposed to the takeover to wear masks and be ready for cat-and-mouse chases with soldiers in the capital. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai junta: Elections could take more than 1 year

Thanyarat Doksone · May 31, 2014 12:41 am

A customer leaves a McDonald's restaurants in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 30, 2014. The burger chain's famous golden arches have become part of the iconography of anti-coup protests and it is warning activists to "cease and refrain" from using its trademark. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

McDonald’s to Thais: No arches in protest signs

Washington Examiner · May 30, 2014 1:32 pm

Thai soldiers stand guard at Victory Monument in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, May 29, 2014. Hundreds of Thai troops and police sealed off one of Bangkok's busiest intersections Thursday in an attempt to block a planned protest one week after a military coup. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand’s junta bans all anti-coup protests

Thanyarat Doksone · May 29, 2014 6:54 pm