Friday, May 13, 2011

Lost 1982: Sri Lanka, Australia and regional countries join forces ...

Information sharing arrangements already in place in Sri Lanka, Australia and Thailand will be expanded within the region, enhancing capacity to detect passport, visa and identity fraud and other techniques being used by people ...

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Khmer temples in Thailand – Sikhoraphum | All Points East Travelblog

Small but well preserved brick and sandstone Hindu temple complex dating from the 11th century, lying just east of Surin Town. (The exact reign is unknown but Suryavarman I, or Udayadityavarman II look like good suspects. ...

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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 ...

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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 ...

Monday, May 9, 2011

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, ...

Sunday, May 8, 2011

.: 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 ...

Saturday, May 7, 2011

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. ...