Burma’s South-east Asian neighbours expressed ”grave concern” on Tuesday at the trial of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
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/ 17 February 2009
The chief Khmer Rouge torturer went on trial for crimes against humanity on Tuesday, the first case involving a senior Pol Pot cadre.
A blaze at a top Bangkok nightclub killed 59 people including a Singaporean celebrating the New Year and injured more than 100 others, police said.
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/ 1 December 2008
Restarting operations at Thailand’s main airport will take at least a week once a sit-in by anti-government protesters ends, officials said on Monday.
Star Trek actor Walter Koenig urged fans of the iconic sci-fi series on Tuesday to turn their wrath on Burma’s military junta, an earthly ”outpost of tyranny”. Koenig, who battled Klingons and Romulans as an original member of the Starship Enterprise crew, said he hoped to mobilise Trekkies to join a campaign against the ruling generals blamed for human rights abuses.
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/ 31 December 2006
At least six small bombs exploded in Bangkok on Sunday, killing two people, wounding more than 20 and shocking the Thai capital into cancelling New Year countdown celebrations. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombs, which went off within about an hour and included one put under a seat at a bus stop outside a shopping mall which killed one person and wounded 16.
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/ 18 November 2006
Leaders from around the Pacific rim said they were ready to break a deadlock in global trade talks at a summit on Saturday. In a statement, leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum said ”major players” in the group were ready to commit to deeper cuts in trade-distorting farm support.
New outbreaks of bird flu in Thailand and Laos are fanning fears the disease is flaring up again in Asia, although concerns the virus was mutating in Indonesia have subsided. In Vietnam, which has not reported any outbreak of the H5N1 virus in poultry in the last seven months, a 35-year-old man was hospitalised in the southern province of Kien Giang.