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Thailand: where cut-price plastic surgery is booming… and can be fatal
Plastic surgery in Thailand is a booming business – but procedures there carry risks, as was shown by the death of a young British woman in a Bangkok clinic last year.
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Burmese man ‘confesses’ to murder of two Brits in Thailand
A Burmese man confesses to the murders of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller in Thailand, police say.
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Thai PM says sorry after beach deaths 'bikini' comment
After insensitive comments by Thailand’s PM about the deaths of two Britons, the Thai government expresses regret and insists the safety of foreigners is of “highest priority”.
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Thai beach deaths: British brothers questioned
Two British brothers who left the Thai island of Koh Tao where police are investigating the brutal murders of two British backpackers are stopped by police before boarding a London bound flight.
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Thai beach deaths: police focus on Burmese community
Police investigating the deaths of two young Britons, whose bodies were found on a beach on Thailand’s Koh Tao island, are focusing their inquiries on the Burmese migrant community.
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Two Britons found dead on Thai island beach
A man and a woman have been found dead with head wounds on a beach in Koh Tao.
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Flying Malaysia Airlines: something only 'brave travellers' do
Passengers on Malaysia Airlines flights have been busy posting photos on Twitter of deserted cabins and rows and rows of empty seats.
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Australian pair abandon Down’s syndrome baby
An Australian couple who paid a surrogate mother from Thailand to have twin babies for them rejected one of the pair when he was born with Down’s syndrome. Now a campaign to help has raised £70,000.
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More than 500 killed on Malaysia Airlines flights this year
At first glance, nothing at Kuala Lumpur’s impressive-looking airport seemed out of place. But there was a heavy feeling in the air.
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The Thai fortune-teller who has lost faith in the future
To me, it sounded like one of the best known fortune-tellers in south east Asia, Luck Rakanithes, believes he made his own luck.
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Thailand: did fortune-tellers predict military coup?
Banned protests, free concerts and models… Thailand is changing under military rule – but how much did fortune-tellers have to play in the coup?
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Thais find new ways to protest against military coup
Anti-coup protesters in Bangkok are finding imaginative ways of avoiding a clamp-down on demonstrations.
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Thai military raids target 'red shirt' protest leaders
Since the military coup in Thailand, the junta has produced lists of the people it wants to report to army bases, sending many leaders of the red shirt protest movement into hiding.
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Thailand post-coup: protests amid media crackdown
More demonstrations on the streets of Bangkok as the military summons newspaper editors and bans gatherings of more than five people at a time.
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Thai pro and anti-coup protests: spot the difference
Hundreds are on the streets in Bangkok, protesting the military coup in Thailand which took place earlier this week. But there are some who support it.