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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 21, 2015
Thaksin advises red shirt opposition to 'play dead' — for now
From self-imposed exile, the influential leader of Thailand's rural red shirt opposition movement has delivered a simple message to followers chafing at the military junta's iron rule: lay low for now, don't panic, "play dead."
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 14, 2015
Malaysia arrests three in connection with Bangkok shrine blast
Malaysia has arrested three suspects in connection with the investigation into a bomb blast in central Bangkok last month that killed 20 people, police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 14, 2015
Hospitalized Thai king, 87, gets treatment for pneumonia
Thailand's ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, has been treated for lung inflammation and blood infection, the Royal Household Bureau said in a statement Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2015
Thai terror blast a symptom of deeper illness
Thailand remains the 'sick man' of Southeast Asia, and the terrorist attack in Bangkok has exacerbated its condition.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2015
ASEAN: moving beyond terrorism fears
A focus on strengthened security and basic law and order will be fundamental to the sustained growth of any ASEAN member- state's tourism sector.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2015
Thai police defuse bomb week after deadly blast
Thai police found and defused a bomb on Monday, a week after an explosion killed 20 people in the country's worst-ever bomb attack, but it was not clear if the device found at a Bangkok construction site had anything to do with the earlier blast.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2015
Schools' wheelchair repairs give new life to people in need
Every summer, students from local high schools in Akita Prefecture gather to learn how to repair secondhand wheelchairs to be sent overseas.
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2015
Japan cultural expo in Thailand featuring AKB48 postponed after Bangkok blast
Japan Expo Thailand 2015, an event to promote Japanese culture featuring the all-girl pop group AKB48 and others, has been postponed in the wake of a deadly bombing in Bangkok.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2015
Kanagawa man in critical condition after Bangkok bomb blast
A 31-year-old man from Kanagawa Prefecture is in critical but stable condition following Monday evening's bomb blast in central Bangkok.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 18, 2015
Bangkok bombing method doesn't match past insurgent tactics
Thai authorities have not ruled out any group, including elements opposed to the military government, for a bomb blast in Bangkok that killed 22 people, but officials said the bombing did not match tactics used by insurgents in the south.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2015
Fuji TV announcer Enami named tourism ambassador to Thailand
A Fuji Television Network Inc. announcer was appointed Japan's tourism ambassador for Thailand on Saturday after gaining fame as a good-looking foreign journalist while covering Bangkok's political riots in 2014.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2015
Thailand and China build ties of convenience
The Thai military regime, isolated by the West, finds that China is more than willing to fill the void.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jul 17, 2015
Little Thailand: Beachside beer and spicy food an hour from Tokyo
The sun, the waves, a sea breeze, the sand beneath your feet — and a nice, chilled beer on the table with good, spicy food, too.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 13, 2015
Gun-carrying ex-Bangkok police chief won't face indictment
Prosecutors do not plan to indict a former Thai police official who was arrested at Narita International Airport last month on suspicion of bringing a loaded handgun into the country, sources said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 9, 2015
Cultural, economic ties eclipse lingering wartime Thai animosity toward Japan
Two events were held in Thailand earlier this year amid a lingering generation gap in public sentiment toward Japan.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Jul 9, 2015
Drought-hit Thai farmers struggling as subsidies, like paddies, look to dry up amid water curbs
Rice farmer Boontham Chei-pa switches on a water pump in the evenings to irrigate his parched field from a canal in Thailand's central province of Suphanburi. The soil is hardly moistened before the motor is switched off.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 5, 2015
Thai sex shops, street bars survive graft crackdown; some call it a junta show
Fern's cocktail bar appears each night on a sidewalk between a group of scantily clad women from the go-go club next door and a noodle stall near one of Bangkok's infamous red-light districts. By morning it has vanished.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2015
Thai monarchy on verge of dramatic change
With King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the twilight of his reign, Thailand's politically potent monarchy is in for a time of upheaval.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 19, 2015
Thailand took four days to confirm its first MERS case
Thai authorities took nearly four days to confirm the country's first case of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the health ministry said on Friday, a time lag likely to raise fears of a further spread of the deadly virus in Asia.
EDITORIALS
May 24, 2015
Rohingya refugees deserve better
More must be done to solve the Rohingya refugee crisis, which has drawn a woefully meager response from the governments of Southeast Asia.

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