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Roadside bomb kills 5 soldiers in southern Thailand

By AP News Fri, May 24, 2013 5:15PM UTC

HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) — Five soldiers have been killed and one wounded by a roadside bomb in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south. Police Col. Jeera Setdao-ngerntrakul said Friday that Muslim insurgents were suspected of detonating the bomb in Saiburi district in Pattani province as a pickup truck carrying the six soldiers

Thai anti-government group’s bizarre open letter

By Bangkok Pundit Thu, May 23, 2013 10:00AM UTC

BP has already blogged on Yingluck’s speech in Mongolia and the insult directed at her (as made clear in this post it was directed at her) by the Thai Rath cartoonist who stated that Yingluck is an evil woman who sells the country, but also implied she is worse than a whore. One other response has been the

Opinion: Time for Philippines to stand up to the bullies

By Edwin Espejo Thu, May 23, 2013 8:11AM UTC

The Philippines lies in a strategic area in the Pacific that is not only vital to shipping lanes and maritime trade, but also bounded by resource-rich waters to the north in the main island of Luzon and the island-dotted territorial waters on its western side that stretch more than 1,000 miles

Southeast Asia’s forests: Development’s victims

By Graham Land Wed, May 22, 2013 6:22PM UTC

One of the world’s hotbeds of biodiversity, the forestland of Southeast Asia, is being sacrificed on the altar of development and global capitalism. A spate of all but unrestrained development projects across SE Asia – from Burma to Vietnam to Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos – is spelling doom for

Thai police seize record 4.49 million meth tablets

By AP News Wed, May 22, 2013 9:14AM UTC

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police have seized 4.49 million methamphetamine pills found in an apartment in the largest meth bust ever in Bangkok. Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubumrung said Tuesday the tablets and 60 kilograms (132 pounds) of crystal meth were smuggled from Burma. He said they were destined for