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Jade Donavanik, a prime ministerial candidate for the Rakchat Party, surprised many by performing a sword dance combat ritual during his visit to the shrine of King Taksin the Great in Chanthaburi province yesterday. [1]

COX’S BAZAR/DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh is deploying thousands of extra police to Rohingya refugee camps in the south, officials said, after a series of mostly unexplained killings that have sown fear among hundreds of thousands of people who have... (confirmed by 2 sources) [2]

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Fires raging in an Indonesian swamp forest may have killed a third of the rare Sumatran orangutans living there and all of them may be lost this year, conservationists warned on Wednesday. [3]

DHAKA—Bangladeshi authorities have yet to start repatriation of the first group of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar from Unchiprang camp in Cox’s Bazar amid protests and a lack of willingness among the refugees to leave their camps. [4]

When Aldis Hodge talks ofreturning to the world of Cross, he doesn't sound like an actor simply reporting back to work but someone reconnecting with something personal. [5]

Ben Fouracre, a global investigations specialist, is Japan managing director and APAC leader for J.S. Held, Tokyo. [6]

KARIMABAD, Pakistan -- Seated on a set of intricate woven rugs covering the floor of a traditional home in Shiskat, a small village in the Hunza Valley in Pakistan's northern region of Gilgit-Baltistan, I cannot help but feel surprised. [7]

KULGAM, Jammu and Kashmir—Kashmiri farmer Yusuf Malik learned that his son Owais, a 22-year old arts student and apple picker, had become an armed militant via a Facebook post. [8]

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[1] TH world.thaipbs.or.th · 2026-01-19 · 35% match

PM hopeful’s double sword dance sparks buzz

Jade Donavanik, a prime ministerial candidate for the Rakchat Party, surprised many by performing a sword dance combat ritual during his visit to the shrine of King Taksin the Great in Chanthaburi province yesterday.

[2] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2018-07-05 · 35% match

Killings Sow Fear Inside Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh

COX’S BAZAR/DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh is deploying thousands of extra police to Rohingya refugee camps in the south, officials said, after a series of mostly unexplained killings that have sown fear among hundreds of thousands of people who have

[3] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2012-03-29 · 34% match

More Than 100 Orangutans Lost in Indonesian Fires

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Fires raging in an Indonesian swamp forest may have killed a third of the rare Sumatran orangutans living there and all of them may be lost this year, conservationists warned on Wednesday.

[4] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2018-11-15 · 33% match

Bangladesh Declines to Start Repatriation of Rohingya amid Protests

DHAKA—Bangladeshi authorities have yet to start repatriation of the first group of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar from Unchiprang camp in Cox’s Bazar amid protests and a lack of willingness among the refugees to leave their camps.

[5] TH bangkokpost.com · 2023-07-03 · 33% match

A man in the storm

When Aldis Hodge talks ofreturning to the world of Cross, he doesn't sound like an actor simply reporting back to work but someone reconnecting with something personal.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2021-11-19 · 32% match

Businesses and NGOs have more to gain by working together

Ben Fouracre, a global investigations specialist, is Japan managing director and APAC leader for J.S. Held, Tokyo.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-10-17 · 31% match

Hunza Valley women challenge Pakistani patriarchy

KARIMABAD, Pakistan -- Seated on a set of intricate woven rugs covering the floor of a traditional home in Shiskat, a small village in the Hunza Valley in Pakistan's northern region of Gilgit-Baltistan, I cannot help but feel surprised.

[8] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2019-03-25 · 30% match

The Making of Militants in India’s ‘Paradise on Earth’

KULGAM, Jammu and Kashmir—Kashmiri farmer Yusuf Malik learned that his son Owais, a 22-year old arts student and apple picker, had become an armed militant via a Facebook post.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2022-04-08 · 30% match

People are the losers in Pakistan's political battles

Yusuf is a Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a columnist for Pakistan's Dawn Newspaper. OpinionPeople are the losers in Pakistan's political battles ![Avatar](

[10] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2013-04-20 · 30% match

Thailand prepared for final statement on Phra Viharn case

THE HAGUE, April 19 — Thailand is ready to present its final statement on the Phra Viharn (Preah Vihear) case at the Internatioanal Court of Justice (ICJ), to counter arguments made by Cambodia in its final oral statement on Thursday.

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