Former pro-government protest leaders were released on Wednesday after a seven-day detention at undisclosed army barracks.
Thai military junta is considering lifting curfew in some tourism hotspots like Phuket and Pattaya to avoid inconveniences for tourists and the business sector.
Thai army chief Gen Prayuth Chan- ocha has been approved by the Thai monarch as head of the National Council for Peace and Order which has staged a military coup to oust an elected caretaker government last week.
The Thai military on Thursday staged a coup d'etat to overthrow an elected government and parliament and abolish the constitution following months of an unresolved political conflict.
The brother-in-law of Zaharie Ahmad Shah, Captain of Malaysian Airline flight MH370, spoke out for the first time publicly in a program by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) broadcast on Monday night, saying reports about the captain having family problems or hijacking the plane in a political protest are "completely false".
Netizens' accusations of misuse of power seem to have prompted police in east China's Shandong Province to apologize for detaining a man who had gone online to vent his fury at the parking ticket they had given him.
Spain's political parties decided to suspend the activities they had planned for Monday following the fatal shooting of the President of the Deputation of Leon, Isabel Carrasco, earlier in the day.
Acting Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra was legally deposed Wednesday for earlier abusing of power.
New Zealand has ramped up international agreements to liberalize air services to encourage greater international trade and travel, Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee said Thursday.
Pakistani fighter jets on Thursday pounded hideouts of the militants in the Khyber tribal region and killed 37 of them, military sources said.
Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammudin Hussein said here Wednesday that the Malaysian cabinet would discuss forming an international expert panel to look into the missing flight MH370 incident.
The Pakistan Taliban decided not to extend ceasefire but the dialogue process with the government will continue, the group's spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said on Wednesday.
Russia and the United States had halted a bilateral nuclear safety project, which Washington had been financing for decades, local media reported Tuesday.
Kidnappers made their first phone call to the family of the Chinese tourist they abducted along with a Filipino resort worker from a Semporna resort, Malaysian local newspaper New Straits Times quoted Eastern Sabah Security Command Director-General Mohammad Mentek as saying on Sunday.
Philippine authorities were coordinating with Malaysian side in exchanging information and in working towards the resolution of the abduction case in Semporna in Malaysia's state of Sabah, according to a Thursday statement from the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
A special court in Pakistan will frame formal high treason charges against former military president Pervez Musharraf on March 31, a court order said Thursday.
A Pakistani government's negotiation team held first direct peace talks with Taliban militants and agreed to continue talks to find out a peaceful solution to the conflict in the country, negotiators said on Wednesday.
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