Climate Wrap-Up: Barcelona Talks Marked by Urgency, Frustration and Pleas for Patience
Barcelona was supposed to bring hints of what's to come in December at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen. A world seeking sanity.
Barcelona was supposed to bring hints of what's to come in December at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen. A world seeking sanity.
Thailand drugs | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Little is real in Patpong, a glowing bazaar and sex district here in Bangkok. The Gucci is fake, the DVDs are pirated and the go-...
AP | Michael Casey | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
BANGKOK (AP) -- U.N. climate talks ended in a whimper Friday without progress on the pressing issues of emission cuts for wealthy nations or financing...
Ben Jervey | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green
I've been in Bangkok for a scant 36 hours, and already the shame is sickening. I'm an American tracking the American position at international climate negotiations where America stands as the biggest obstacle.
AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
BANGKOK — The United Nations on Monday warned world leaders they have only 70 days to reach a new deal to limit global warming, while environmen...
Murray Fromson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
None of my colleagues covering Ted Kennedy's early emergence on the national horizon in the 1960s bet on him as a promising young star.
Greg Barrett | Posted 07.11.2009 | Home
If Thailand wants invitations to closed-door U.N. meetings, it needs to stop marketing its women and children.
foxnews.com | Posted 07.05.2009 | Home
Chuck Binder, Carradine's manager, said the actor was staying in the Thai capital while shooting a movie called "Stretch." When a producer went to his...
Michael Russnow | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment
The Amazing Race provides fewer decision-making opportunities and clocks less mileage in each episode, thus diminishing the potential for bad luck affecting the teams. What's the reason?
Bangkok Post | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Monday ruled out holding any talks with exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra after last week's clashes with Tha...
AP | TINI TRAN | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
BANGKOK — Police issued arrest warrants Tuesday for 14 leaders of an anti-government movement, including ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatr...
AP | GRANT PECK | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
BANGKOK — About 100,000 protesters seeking to topple Thailand's government turned their wrath Wednesday on the 88-year-old top adviser to the co...
GlobalPost.com | Patrick Winn | Posted 03.28.2009 | World
BANGKOK -- The girls bunked three-deep in a run-down Best Value Inn room, each of them far from home and earning minimum wage at the McDonald's fran...
Walden Bello | Posted 03.28.2009 | World
East Asia may be entering a period of radical protest and social revolution that went out of style when export-oriented industrialization became the fashion three decades ago.
Paul Dailing | Posted 03.23.2009 | World
Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, who has been in a Thai prison since his arrest in August for insulting the royal family, is safe at home in Melbourne, his family and lawyer report.
Paul Dailing | Posted 02.22.2009 | World
Harry Nicolaides is not the first writer to be imprisoned for a passage he wrote, but the Australian, who was sentenced Monday to three years in a Tha...
AP | DENIS D. GRAY | Posted 01.31.2009 | World
BANGKOK, Thailand — A fire swept through a high-class nightclub jammed with several hundred New Year's revelers early Thursday, killing at least...
GlobalPost.com | Patrick Winn | Posted 01.11.2009 | World
BANGKOK -- As anti-government protesters ground parts of Bangkok to a halt, vivid yellow stickers began to appear on noodle carts and shop windows. ...
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 01.04.2009 | World
Welcome to the Thai government: Wealthy families with puppets in power, election fraud, refusal to compromise in the face of mass dissent from your own people. Sound familiar?
BBC News | Posted 12.30.2008 | World
Thai protesters have attacked a second checkpoint near Bangkok's main airport, forcing police forces to retreat. The confrontation came after police ...
AP | AMBIKA AHUJA and CHRIS BLAKE | Posted 12.28.2008 | World
BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand's government backed off Friday from its threat to forcibly remove protesters occupying Bangkok's two airports in th...
Posted 12.27.2008 | World
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J. Carl Ganter | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green