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BEIJING — A late-night coal mine accident in northern China has killed 19 miners, Chinese state media reported Thursday.

TOKYO — The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a record 19.7 million in 2015, up 47 percent from the previous year, as the country saw a growing number of Asian tourists, the government said Tuesday.

CHONBURI — A Ukrainian man has been arrested on suspicion of robbing more than 200,000 baht from a currency exchange office in the resort town of Pattaya.

N'DJAMENA, Chad — Four female suicide bombers targeted a market on an island in Lake Chad on Saturday, killing at least 28 people, a senior military official said.

CHONBURI — A man is under arrest in Chonburi province for allegedly selling methamphetamines to pay the dowry demanded by his fiancee’s family.

BANGKOK — A vendor has been killed after the manager of a famous Bangkok shopping mall crashed his Mercedes Benz into a garbage truck this morning while driving under the influence.

(1 January) 8 Indian tourists have been reportedly injured by their fall from an escalator on Phayathai BTS station today.

YANGON — A church deacon says a landslide of mining waste has killed at least six people in northern Myanmar, the sixth deadly accident in the jade mining region since a November disaster killed more than 100 people.

SURAT THANI — Police say an armed foreigner robbed a convenience store on Koh Samui island yesterday and took off with more than 178,000 baht in cash.

BANGKOK - Three cleaning works were injured yesterday by homemade bombs that were hidden inside a garbage bag in a suburb of Bangkok.