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Myanmar ethnic Karen refugees sing religious songs at Mae La refugee camp near Mae Sot, Thailand, June 29, 2010. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, FILE)
US aid freeze leads to suspension of health care to Myanmar refugees in Thailand
A freeze on foreign assistance programs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump has led to cuts in services to refugees from war-torn Myanmar, including the shutdown of hospital care in camps in Thailand where more than 100,000 are living, according to activists and Thai officials.
 
A just-married couple from the LGBTQ+ community walks on rainbow carpet in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, on the first day a law took effect granting them the same rights as heterosexual couples. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Thai LGBTQ+ couples register marriages as law gives them equal status
Hundreds of LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand have experienced a life-changing occasion, registering their marriages legally on the first day a law took effect granting them the same rights as heterosexual couples.
 
The wreckage of a small passenger plane that crashed on Thursday are seen near the crash site in Chachoengsao province, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Surat Sappakun)
Searchers dig in muddy swamp near Bangkok where plane carrying 5 Chinese tourists, 4 Thais crashed
Searchers dug into the mud of a flooded mangrove swamp outside Bangkok for plane fragments and the remains of the five Chinese passengers and four Thai flight crew members believed killed in a crash shortly after takeoff.
 
In this release by Chachoengsao's Public Relations Department, the wreckage of the exploded aircraft is seen at the site in Chachoengsao province, Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (Chachoengsao's Public Relations Department via AP)
Small passenger plane crashes on flight to eastern Thailand. All 9 aboard are believed dead
A small passenger plane on a domestic flight in Thailand has crashed shortly after taking off from the main airport in the Thai capital Bangkok.
 
An Australian passenger, center, who was injured on a flight that was battered by severe turbulence, talks to reporters at Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, May 23, 2024. The airline's Flight SQ321 was flying from London’s Heathrow airport to Singapore when it hit the turbulence Tuesday, bashing people around inside the plane. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Several injured passengers on turbulence-hit Singapore flight need spinal surgery, hospital says
A Bangkok hospital says several of the more seriously injured people who were on the Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence will need spinal surgery.
 
Members of a rescue team discuss after a London-Singapore flight was diverted to Bangkok due to severe turbulence, in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The plane apparently plummeted for a number of minutes before it was diverted to Bangkok, where emergency crews rushed to help injured passengers amid stormy weather, Singapore Airlines said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Severe turbulence during Singapore Airlines flight leaves several people badly injured. One man died
Singapore Airlines says one of its flights hit severe turbulence over the Indian Ocean and descended 6,000 feet in about three minutes. Authorities say a British man died, possibly after a heart attack, and several people were severely injured.
 
Thailand charges more activists with sedition, royal insults
Prosecutors in Thailand have charged 18 pro-democracy activists with sedition, while lodging additional charges of insulting the monarchy against three of them.