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A farm house is surrounded by flooded fields from tropical storm Florence on Saturday in Hyde County, North Carolina. Photo: Steve Helber / Associated Press

Florence and Mangkhut, Different Tales of Water and Wind

Nature expresses its fury in sundry ways. Two deadly storms — Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut — roared ashore on the same day, half a world apart, but the way they ...

Thai Police Move Against ‘Little Ghost’ Recruiters

BANGKOK — Thai police promised to step up a crackdown on recruiting agents supplying illegal workers to South Korea, weeks after the Seoul government reportedly mulled an end to visa waivers for Thai travelers.
Photo: @YousefJafary / Twitter

Thai Aviation Firm Sanctioned by US is Small Player

Little is known about a Thai company the US government announced rare sanctions against late Friday night for servicing an Iranian airline accused of aiding terrorist groups.
Mexican fugitive Angel Humberto Chavez-Gastelum. Photo: U.S. Attorney's Office Central District Of California / Associated Press

Colombian Kingpin Busted in Massive Smuggling Operation

LOS ANGELES — A Colombian drug kingpin who participated in a violent ring that used planes, speedboats and submarines to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars in cocaine in an operation stretching to Thailand faced federal trafficking charges Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom, prosecutors said.
Residents walk as rains from Typhoon Mangkhut begin to affect Tuguegarao city, Cagayan province, northeastern Philippines on Friday. Photo: Aaron Favila / Associated Press

Typhoon Mangkhut Plows Through Rain-Soaked Philippines

Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into the Philippines' northeastern coast early Saturday, its ferocious winds and blinding rain ripping off tin roof sheets and knocking out power, and plowed through the agricultural region at the start of the onslaught.
US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo: Alex Brandon / Associated Press

SCOTUS Nominee Kavanaugh Denies Allegation of Sexual Misconduct

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has denied an allegation of sexual misconduct from when he was in ...
A woman was seriously injured Friday when a construction crane crushed her car on Sala Daeng Road.

Builder Faces Charges Over Silom Crane Collapse

BANGKOK — A construction engineer faces prosecution for a crane collapse Friday in the Silom area that injured three people, according to a city official.
The Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets shows civil defense workers clean rubble from a house which was damaged by a Syrian government airstrike, in Hobeit village, near Idlib, Syria. Photo: Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets / Associated Press

US Accuses Thai Company of Aiding Terror-Linked Iran Airline

The U.S. government on Friday imposed sanctions on a Thai company it says provides services to an Iranian airline that Washington accuses of supporting terrorist activities directed ...

Nope, JJ Green Market is Done Already

BANGKOK — A woman in her 50s sat Friday in front the restaurant where she’s sold khao tom for seven years in a popular Bangkok night market. Not so far were piled boxes and bags of ingredients she didn’t know what to do with.
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Endangered DTAC Customers Get 3-Month Reprieve

A court on Friday ordered regulators to extend service for DTAC customers using an old slice of spectrum the company has lost the rights to.

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