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Commuters queuing up for tickets at Wat Mangkon on August 4.

Khaosod English Tours Bangkok’s Fanciest MRT Stations (Video)

BANGKOK — New MRT stations connected to tourist destinations such as the Grand Palace and Chinatown are becoming destinations themselves as visitors cram to...

Mothers of Bombing Suspects Barred From Visits

BANGKOK — The families of two men detained for alleged connections to a series of bomb attacks in Bangkok last week said Monday they have been barred from visiting the pair.
Protesters with makeshift shields pass through a subway station on their way to a police station in Hong Kong on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. Photo: Kin Cheung / AP

Hong Kong Protests Disrupt Flights, Subways as Strike Called

HONG KONG — At least 100 flights were cancelled and subway service widely disrupted in Hong Kong on Monday as a pro-democracy movement called...
In this March, 20, 2008 file photo, former Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, Nuon Chea, foreground, sits in the court hall before the final statements at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: Heng Sinith, File / AP

Nuon Chea, Ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, Dies at 93

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, the...
The home of Connor Betts is seen in Bellbrook, Ohio, U.S., Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. Betts, 24, was killed by police less than a minute after he started shooting a .223-caliber rifle in the streets of Dayton's historic Oregon District about 1 a.m. in the second U.S. mass shooting in less than 24 hours. Police haven't released further information about Betts or publicly discussed a motive. Photo: Bryan Woolston, Pool / AP

Classmates: Ohio Shooter Kept a ‘Hit List’ and a ‘Rape List’

DAYTON, Ohio — High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended for compiling...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is presented with flowers as he boards his plane to depart for Australia from Don Mueang International Airport, in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Pool Photo via AP

Snubbed by North Korea, Pompeo Hits Other Asian Turbulence

BANGKOK — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Thailand on Saturday with his hopes for resuming nuclear talks with North Korea dashed, while...
From left, Melody Stout, Hannah Payan, Aaliyah Alba, Sherie Gramlich and Laura Barrios comfort each other during a vigil for victims of the shooting Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. Photo:John Locher / AP

Texas Governor: 20 Dead in El Paso Shopping Center Shooting

EL PASO, Texas — A young gunman opened fire in an El Paso, Texas, shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during...
Wildun Maha, left, and Luai Sae-ngae, right, under police custody on Aug. 1, 2019.

Police Source: Two Southern Men ‘Confessed’ to Bangkok Bombings

BANGKOK — Two men have confessed to laying and detonating bombs around Bangkok in revenge for military operations in the Deep South, a police source told the media Saturday. 
Left: In this Friday, March 22, 2019 file photo, Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra welcomes his guests for the wedding of his youngest daughter Paetongtarn "Ing" Shinawatra at a hotel in Hong Kong. Photo: Kin Cheung / AP. Right: a photo posted by Parina Kraipkup on her Facebook page July 26, 2019. Photo: Parina Kraikup / Facebook

MP Parina Says Thaksin Planted Bangkok Bombs

BANGKOK — A pro-junta MP says she knows who’s behind the bombings that struck the capital yesterday, even before police have come out with...
Foreign ministers, front row from left, China's Wang Yi, Thailand's Don Pramudwinai, Vietnam's Phạm Binh Minh, Australia's Marise Payne, Bangladesh's Abdul Momen and Brunei Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Erywan Yusof join hands for a group photo during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. Photo: Gemunu Amarasinghe / AP

Asia-Pacific Ministers Push Dialogue to End Region’s Spats

BANGKOK — Asia-Pacific foreign ministers called for the peaceful resolution to regional disputes at Friday's close of an annual security meeting, which was eclipsed...

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