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Khmer Times
April 8, 2018
The Thai soldiers marched in victory parades in Paris and two received the Croix de Guerre. In subsequent years, Thailand used the deployment to press its case for the removal of unequal treaties with Western nations. The Thai military's overseas success, together with an enduring elite strategic cultureÃâà...
East Asia Forum
April 6, 2018
The Thai soldiers marched in victory parades in Paris and two received the Croix de Guerre. In subsequent years, Thailand used the deployment to press its case for the removal of unequal treaties with Western nations. The Thai military's overseas success, together with an enduring elite strategic cultureÃâà...
benarnews
March 29, 2018
A Thai soldier watches Muslim children hula-hoop during a psychological operation at a village in Narathiwat province, southern Thailand Friday, June 17, 2011. AP. Thailand's peace initiative with Malay Muslim insurgents in the Deep South has hit a snag as rebels have threatened not to go through withÃâà...
Camp Lejeune Globe
March 28, 2018
While deployed, the Marines and Sailors participated in exercise Cobra Gold where they trained with Royal Thai military personnel. Cobra Gold is an annual international exercise that seeks to strengthen joint operation capabilities and to improve capacity with different activities, including securityÃâà...
Myanmar Times
March 21, 2018
Thai soldiers check the documents of migrant workers during a registration drive at a government One Stop Service Centre for labor and immigration in Samut Sakhon province on Monday. Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha warned of a new crackdown on foreign workers who fail to register with ThaiÃâà...
The Nation
March 12, 2018
... boxing ritual, performance art or just paying respect to one's teacher. It is an important part of Thailand's cultural and martial arts history with origins that can be traced back to ancient battlefields when Thai soldiers fought for independence, centuries before muay thai developed into a martial art for sport.”.
The Phuket News
March 9, 2018
“Wai Khru is much more than a ceremonial kick boxing ritual, performance art or just paying respect to one's teacher. It is an important part of Thailand's cultural and martial arts history with origins that are traced back to ancient battlefields when Thai soldiers fought for independence, centuries before MuayÃâà...
Economic Times
February 23, 2018
... among others, participated under the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team project. One of the most striking parts of the drills was the training given by Thai soldiers to foreign troops for surviving in the jungle, including learning to make a fire with just wood, finding water sources and hunting animals.
Khmer Times
February 21, 2018
Bun Sokheng, deputy chief of Oddar Meanchey province's Samrong city police, said at the time that Thai soldiers identified the two Cambodians as Mea Ean, 45, and Ngeth Theary, 47. “They were arrested by Thai soldiers as they transported the rosewood from the Thai national park over the CambodianÃâà...
Military Times
February 17, 2018
The 300 soldiers from South Korea who joined 2,000 U.S. Marines and Thai soldiers in eastern Thailand marked the highest numbers participating from the East Asian country since it joined the Cobra Gold exercise in 2010, and comes at a time when tensions are particularly high on the Korean Peninsula.
Newsweek
February 15, 2018
Thai soldiers are on high alert after insurgents detonated more than 36 small bombs in the region in Yala, Thailand, on May 17, 2015. Beheadings, bombings, drive-by shootings, assassinations, extrajudicial killings and vicious assaults have left more than 6,000 people dead and at least 11,500 injuredÃâà...
Khmer Times
February 15, 2018
Two Cambodians and a Thai national were arrested by Thai soldiers on Tuesday night for illegal logging and transporting rosewood over the border to Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province. The group were accused of taking the wood from a Thai national park in Sa Keo province. Bun Sokheng, deputyÃâà...
Khmer Times
February 14, 2018
“On Monday, black-clad Thai soldiers in Ta Phraya district arrested fifteen Cambodians including six women because they crossed into Thailand through an illegal checkpoint,” he said. “The Cambodia-Thailand working group from the Boeung Trakoun Border Checkpoint cooperated with border policeÃâà...
STLtoday.com
February 12, 2018
U.S. soldiers and Thai soldiers attend the opening ceremony of the joint military exercise Cobra Gold 2018 at U-tapao Airport in Rayong Province. Thailand, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. Thailand and the United States have opened the largest annual joint military exercise in Southeast Asia but downplayed theÃâà...
Nikkei Asian Review
February 11, 2018
BANNANG SATA, Thailand -- Under the cover of darkness, Thai soldiers and paramilitary troops are raiding remote stretches of Thailand's southernmost provinces to arrest suspected Malay-Muslim insurgents. In January, hundreds of armed troops combed through Bannang Sata, a hilly area of forest andÃâà...
Asia Times
February 7, 2018
Thai soldiers (front) followed by a US Air Force soldier (C), a US Army soldier (C,R) a US Marine soldier and Thai soldiers (R, back) parade during the opening ceremony of Cobra Gold 2016 in Sattahip on February 9, 2016. Photo: AFP/Nicolas Asfouri. US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine CorpsÃâà...
BBC News
November 21, 2017
The case of a Thai army cadet who died under mysterious circumstances and had his organs removed has left his family angry and with many questions. Phakhapong Tanyakan died on 17 October - and his family was told the cause of death was a sudden cardiac arrest. Yet his family became suspiciousÃâà...
New York Times
November 7, 2017
Fifty years ago last month, the first Thai volunteer soldiers, a regiment-size unit called the Queen's Cobras, were sent off to Bien Hoa in South Vietnam to fight alongside the Americans as part of the so-called Free World Forces. Eventually some 40,000 Thai soldiers and sailors would serve. While theÃâà...
Borneo Bulletin Online
December 31, 1999
A low-level insurgency carried out by shadowy separatists in Thailand's three southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani has left about 7,000 people dead since 2004. The three provinces are the only ones who complain that they are often treated as second-class citizens. Thai soldiers andÃâà...
Chiang Rai Times
December 31, 1999
Ethnic Lahu activist Chaiyaphum Pa-sae, 17, was shot dead by Thai soldiers during an anti-drug operation on March 17, 2017. CHIANG MAI – An inquest in Thailand into the death of a teenage ethnic Lahu activist ended today without an answer to a critical question: What happened to the missing securityÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
December 31, 1999
Ethnic Lahu activist Chaiyaphum Pa-sae, 17, was shot dead by Thai soldiers during an anti-drug operation on March 17, 2017. An inquest in Thailand into the death of a teenage ethnic Lahu activist ended today without an answer to a critical question: What happened to the missing security camera footageÃâà...
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