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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Coup-maker Prayuth Chan-ocha hopes his snappy new promise -- 'no coup again' -- will get him re-elected prime minister in May and end worries that the U.S.-trained military will topple the next government if the polls ...
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Triangle, Chinese entrepreneur Zhao Wei is constructing a sprawling casino resort and airstrip despite being sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department as a "threat to the United States" because of his "horrendous illicit activities". his financial reach into northeast Laos' prehistoric Plain of Jars and delving into southern Laos close to Vietnam's frontier. U.S. allegations sanctioning Mr. Zhao include "engaging in drug trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering, bribery, and wildlife trafficking, much of which is facilitated through the Kings Romans Casino," the Treasury Department s...
Thursday, 22 July 2021, 11:22 am BANGKOK, Thailand -- When the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan secured Bagram Air Base in January 2002, a Special Operations officer said he motivated newly arrived 82nd Airborne Division troops with a human skull, because the young Americans became enthusiastic when they saw death's head. "I'm a skull worshipper," Special Operations Command Sergeant-Major Raymond V. Cordell said in an interview at the time in Bagram Air Base, 42 miles (67 kilometers) north of Kabul. A human skull, given to him by fellow soldiers, was mounted in his office at MacDill Air Force Bas...
here in Southeast Asia have joined forces, demanding the State Department vaccinate all American expats in Thailand, as a model for international distribution, instead of discriminating against them. "Biden has publicly announced that all Americans now have access to vaccines, but the government and State seem to have forgotten about us Americans living abroad," said the chair of Democrats Abroad in Thailand, Paul Risley, in an interview. "What are we, chopped liver? "These are vaccines, offered for free to all in the U.S., and most of them have been manufactured with taxpayer dollars." Some ...