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Thai king leaves Bangkok hospital, returns to palace

May 17, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BANGKOK (AP)  — Thailand’s 87-year-old king, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, left a Bangkok hospital he checked into last year and returned Sunday to his seaside palace south of the capital. King Bhumibol Adulyadej had been in a Bangkok hospital since last October, when he had his gallbladder removed. As the king left Siriraj Hospital with […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, Grand Palace, Hua Hin, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Klaikangwon Palace, Queen Sirikit, Siriraj Hospital, Thailand, Vol 34 No 21 | May 16 - May 22

500 Rohingya from Myanmar land in Indonesia

May 17, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Margie Mason and Robin McDowell Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)  — Boats carrying more than 500 members of Myanmar’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim community washed ashore in western Indonesia on Sunday, with some people in need of medical attention, officials and a nonprofit organization said. They warned that thousands more are believed to be stranded […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Ali Kotarumalos, Arakan Project, Associated Press, Chris Lewa, Indonesia, JAKARTA, Malacca Straits, Malaysia, Muhammad Juned, Myanmar, North Korea, Rashid Ahmed, Risky Hidayat, Steve Hamilton, Syria, Thailand, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 21 | May 16 - May 22, attention

Thai police dig up 26 bodies at suspected trafficking camp

May 9, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sumeth Parnpetch Associated Press PADANG BESAR, Thailand (AP) — Thai police trekked into the mountains and dug up 26 bodies from dozens of shallow graves at an abandoned jungle camp that’s been linked to human trafficking networks, which activists say are “out of control” in the Southeast Asian country. A lone survivor, now hospitalized […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, Arakan Project, Associated Press, Brad Adams, Chris Lewa, Human Rights Watch, Jarumporn Suramanee, Laos, Last June, Myanmar, Padang Besar, Police Gen, Rohingya Muslims, Sansern Kaewkamnerd, Thailand, United States, Vol 34 No 20 | May 9 - May 15, Weerasant Tharnpiem

Wu wins Volvo China Open for 1st European Tour title

May 2, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Justin Bergman Associated Press SHANGHAI (AP) — With two Chinese golfers tied for the lead going into the final round of the Volvo China Open, there was a good chance one of them would break new ground by becoming the first from the country to capture a European Tour title on home soil. Most […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2015, Argentina, Associated Press, Chinese, European Tour, France, Japan Tour, Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Li Haotong, Shenzhen International, Singapore Masters, Thailand, Tiger Woods, Tomson Golf Club, Vol 34 No 19 | May 2 - May 8, Volvo China Open, Wu Ashun

Thai junta links Samui island bombing to political opponents

April 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Thanyarat Doksone BANGKOK (AP) — A car bomb explosion that slightly injured seven people on the popular resort island of Samui in southern Thailand may be linked to the country’s political turmoil, a spokesman for the military government said Saturday. Initial reports indicated that the attack late Friday was carried out by the same […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2015, Associated Press, Central Festival, Chatpong Chatputi, Criminal Court, Grant Peck, Poonsak Sophonpathumrak, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Sansern Kaewkamnerd, Surat Thani, Thailand, Vol 34 No 17 | April 18 - April 24, Yingluck Shinawatra, parking

The Village Report — Vietnam: Coming to rest and search

April 17, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly “Where are you from?” he wants to know. The tour guide. It’s 7:45AM and I’m rubbing my eyes in the morning in Dalat. “Asia,” I say, mindlessly. It’s a lifelong question, this sense of fromness. Identity, the search for “who am I?” all that existential angst that only recently […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2015, Cambodia, Dalat Vietnam, Dipika Kohli, India, Ireland, Nha Trang, North Carolina, Northwest Asian Weekly, Phnom Penh, South Asia, Thailand, Vol 34 No 17 | April 18 - April 24

Fast-growing Asian aviation confronts safety challenges

April 12, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Kelvin Chan Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — For Asia’s aviation industry, the growing pains have just begun. A year of disasters, the disappearance of Flight 370 and financial turbulence highlight the challenges confronting the world’s biggest air travel market, where governments, regulators and airlines are struggling to keep up after a decade of […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, 2015, Desmond Ross, Endau Analytics, European Union, Fast-growing Asian, IATA, ICAO, Including Flight, Indonesia, International Air Transport Association, International Civil Aviation Organization, Lion Air, Pacific Aviation Safety Office, Shukor Yusof, Thailand, Ukraine, Vol 34 No 16 | April 11 - April 17

More than 300 fishermen rescued from slavery from Indonesian island

April 10, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Robin McDowell and Margie Mason Associated Press TUAL, Indonesia (AP) — The same trawlers that had enslaved countless migrant fishermen for years carried more than 300 of them to freedom Saturday, following a dramatic rescue from a remote Indonesian island that many men believed would likely be their final resting place. After 17 hours […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, Associated Press, Aung Aung, Cambodia, Indonesian Fisheries Ministry, Laos, Margie Mason, Myanmar, Phong Myant Aung, San Jose, State Department, TUAL, Thailand, United States, Vol 34 No 16 | April 11 - April 17

About 4,000 fishermen stranded on Indonesian islands

April 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Margie Mason and Robin McDowell Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) —The number of foreign fishermen stranded on several remote eastern Indonesian islands has spiraled to 4,000, including some revealed in an Associated Press investigation to have been enslaved. Many are migrant workers abandoned by their boat captains after the government passed a moratorium on […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2015, AP, Associated Press, Bangkok Post, Burma, Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti, IOM, Indonesia, JAKARTA, Myanmar, Ngwe Thein, Phil Robertson, Steve Hamilton, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand, Vol 34 No 15 | April 4 - April 10

A mercurial junta leader known for sharp tongue — Banana peel, birthday plans, and multiple personalities

April 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Todd Pitman and Thanyarat Doksone Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Ear tugs. A flying banana peel. Sarcastic remarks about getting smacked, or punched — or even executed. Such is life for the press corps covering Thailand’s notoriously testy military ruler. Since leading a putsch that ousted Thailand’s elected government last May, general-turned-prime minister Prayuth […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, Bangkok Post, Brunei, EXECUTION, Khon Kaen, Koh Tao, MAYBE, Manop Thip-osod, Prayuth Chan-ocha, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Supreme Court, Thai Journalists Association, Thailand, Vol 34 No 15 | April 4 - April 10, attention, censorship

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