Pro-democracy protesters march during a protest in Udom Suk, suburbs of Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. The authorities in Bangkok shut down mass transit systems and set up roadblocks Saturday as Thailand’s capital faced a fourth straight day of determined anti-government protests. Gemunu Amarasinghe AP BANGKOK Pro-democracy activists in […]
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BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand have arrested several political activists who planned to camp out at the site of a rally scheduled for Wednesday in Bangkok that is along the route the country’s king is expected to travel for an unrelated royal ceremony. The arrests Tuesday came after police […]
BANGKOK (AP) — A new faction of Thailand’s pro-democracy movement staged a protest march Sunday, linking their cause with that of demonstrators in Myanmar battling that neighboring country’s coup-installed military government. Marchers sought but failed to go to Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s house, which is on an army base […]
HAMBURG, Germany — The research service of the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament, has taken issue with the foreign ministry after it hinted earlier this month that it will not make any moves against Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn with regard to his preference in recent years for residing in the southwestern […]
File photo of a tourist resort in Koh Chang, Thailand TripAdvisor has warned about a Thai hotel that made a legal complaint against a customer for negative reviews, resulting in his arrest. Wesley Barnes, who is a US citizen, had posted several reviews which allegedly accused the Sea View Resort […]
Tripadvisor is warning potential visitors to a Thai hotel that they could face dire consequences for complaining too harshly about their experience — just like one guest who was thrown in jail over his negative reviews. The travel-review platform slapped a special notice on its listing for the Sea View […]
BANGKOK — The resort hotel in Thailand got its public apology. The unhappy American guest who spent two nights in jail for criticizing the hotel online got his criminal charges dropped. But it was Tripadvisor, the giant online travel review platform, that got the last word. Wesley Barnes, the American […]