Story Archive
2015-03-06
Each year thousands of people celebrate the festival of the goddess Lim Ko Niew in southern Thailand’s Pattani Province fifteen days after the Chinese Lunar New Year.
2015-03-05
Preliminary arrangement quietly under way.
2015-03-05
A group of drug felons condemned to die includes citizens of several nations.
2015-03-05
The government says it is doing so to protect women, but feminists aren’t buying this.
2015-03-04
Police also announce the arrests of three Malaysians with alleged ties to the jihadist group.
2015-03-04
Authorities reveal a name associated with man who threatened violence unless Bangkok withdrew its forces from the Deep South.
2015-03-04
Bangladeshis defy threat against free speech in wake of slaying of outspoken atheist Avijit Roy.
2015-03-03
Zulkifli bin Hir, a suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings, was reported killed in the southern Philippines in late January.
2015-03-03
Authorities say the so-called Mujahideen Rebat al-Fatani is a fringe separatist organization.
2015-03-02
The writer had criticized Muslim extremists in his blogs.
2015-03-02
Two parties bitterly opposed on a range of issues take the state’s reins together.
2015-03-01
Jakarta and a powerful local supporter of the banned group both say drug felons deserve to die.
2015-02-28
Attack deals serious blow to prospect of peace talks in southern Thailand, ISOC spokesman says.
2015-02-28
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2015-02-25
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