Picture Message: The Mississippi Floods Part 2

The swollen Mississippi River swallowed up farmland and threatened river towns on Friday, as record amounts of water tested a network of levees and reservoirs built since deadly floods in the last century. REUTERS/Eric Thayer ...

world34-news: Marco Polo, Wondrous « Kanlaon

Marco Polo's Travels were published in his lifetime, but did not really catch on until a century later. In the words of Laurence Bergreen, "the work was disseminated slowly, one handwritten copy at a time, and required more than a ...

The Thailand King approved to dissolve the House of Commons and ...

9, the Thai Constitutional Court unanimously approved three bills related to elections, constitutional subsidiary, for the upcoming election of the House of Commons cleared the legal obstacles. The tribunal held that, upon examination, ...

.: At Asean, no solution

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Sunday failed to resolve a bitter border row between Thailand and Cambodia which hijacked the agenda of an annual summit in Indonesia. Workers move the flags of the 10 member ... Eighteen people have been killed and 85000 temporarily displaced in weeks of clashes over ownership of a small patch of territory surrounding an 11th-century Khmer temple. The temple itself belongs to Cambodia. In a highly critical tone not usually ...

Thai, Cambodian leaders meet to discuss border row

Around 18 people have been kіƖƖеԁ and 85000 have been temporarily displaced in weeks of clashes over ownership of a small patch of territory surrounding an 11th-century Khmer temple, which belongs to Cambodia. ...

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Domestic Politics Driving Border Row

Historians believe that both might have been constructed around the same time as the Preah Vihear, in the 11th century. Emotions run deep in both countries. Particularly in Thailand, the discourse of “lost territories” gave birth to ...