reuters More than 100 people were feared dead after a military transport plane ploughed into a residential area in Medan shortly after take-off in Indonesia on Tuesday, in what may be the deadliest accident yet for an air force with a long history of crashes.

aa.com.tr At a press conference to launch its plea, the Coalition for Caring for Rohingya urged Indonesia to act decisively against Burma's government, which it said had played a key role in the humanitarian crisis faced by the Muslim ethnic group today.

bangkokpost.com Twenty people quarantined after coming into close contact with the man at the centre of Thailand's first Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) case were discharged yesterday.

thehindu.com India's Central Industrial Security Force at Kempegowda International Airport busted two carriers from Tamil Nadu who were smuggling 72 black spotted terrapins to Thailand. The duo confessed that their contact in Chennai had asked them to hand over the terrapins to a person in Phuket.


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reuters Stunned Greeks faced shuttered banks, long supermarkets lines and overwhelming uncertainty as a breakdown in talks between Athens and its international creditors plunged the country deep into crisis.

scmp.com/AP US stock markets took their biggest hits of 2015 early Tuesday Thailand time, wiping out all gains made in 2015 because of the Greece crisis. The Hong Kong market joined a global slide over growing concerns of Greece leaving the euro zone.

bangkokpost.com Thailand will install direction signs in Chinese next year in a bid to ease the number of car accidents caused by tourists travelling from China, especially around Chiang Mai.



bangkokpost.com Thailand has no laws against discrimination. This means embedded societal racism, as seen in the reaction to Rohingya refugees. Approximately 50 individuals and companies own 90 percent of the land in Thailand.

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nationmultimedia.com Six foreign fugitives have been arrested for a variety of different crimes, said Pol Maj-General Thamrong Saengwattanakul, commander of Immigration Police Division 3. The six were named as Russian woman Natallia Makian; Russian man Dmitrii Rodionov, 38; Taiwanese man Chen Hung Hsun, 34; Taiwanese woman Hsiao Min Chu, 48; German man Mario Wilhelm Schaefer; and Wen Liping, 32, a Chinese national.
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Six-foreign-fugitives-nabbed-30263364.html

Phuket Update A badly battered yacht stranded on Kata Beach since April 1 has been removed with use of a barge crane. The Australian owners will now have to present to the Phuket Marine Office to claim 'Inisfail' and negotiate the hefty cost of the removal.

Krabi Update A German tourist found hanging from a tree on Phi Phi Island left a note, tucked into her shirt, police said. Katharina Rebacz, 26, was found on the secluded Ao Por Beach, on the southeastern tip of Phi Phi Don, by local fishermen. Relatives have been notified.

Krabi Update Korean tourist Nak Ki Choi, 77, who was found dead in the water off Phi Phi on Saturday, most likely suffered a heart attack that led to his drowning, say doctors at Phi Phi Hospital.

nationmultimedia.com The Bangkok Post's ex-chief reporter for military and security affairs, Sermsuk Kasitipradit, proclaimed victory after the Supreme Court ruled that the newspaper had unfairly dismissed him over his report in 2005 about cracks on the new Suvarnabhumi Airport's runway.

bangkokpost.com A fad introduced by young Westerners, the recreational use of "laughing gas" has gone commercial around the backpackers' haunt of Khao San Road. It is being sold in balloons to tourists and local youths.

nationmultimedia.com Phuket International Airport is scheduled to open a new terminal next February that is expected to serve up to 12.5 million passengers per year.

washingtonpost.com In the wake of a landmark Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage a right nationwide, a whopping 26 million people slapped a rainbow flag over their Facebook photos to ''celebrate pride.''

news.com.au Swede Hanna Bouveng, 25, a former intern who sued her Wall Street boss over lurid allegations of sexual conquest, betrayal and stalking, has been awarded $US18 million by a federal jury.

bangkokpost.com With some of Bangkok's luxury malls sitting largely empty but yet more being built, could the city's shopping meccas be doing more harm than good?

theguardian.com Some of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants last year have been brainwashed to begin fighting for the Islamist group, with many carrying out public beatings and even killings, other captives have told the BBC.

deccanherald.com Thai AirAsia announced the launch of direct flights from Bengaluru to Bangkok starting from September 1. Fly-Thru possibilities will soon including Phuket, Krabi, Surat Thani and Hat Yai.

newsweek.com A fire that tore through an amusement park near the Taiwanese capital of Taipei over the weekend, injuring more than 500 people, might have been started when a colored powder sprayed over the crowd ignited after coming into contact with cigarettes or a spark, officials said.

qz.com Uber is pulling out the stops to fight a New York City bill that would cap the number of drivers it can employ. Mobilising its users to ''Save Uber as you know it in NYC,'' the company said in an email to customers that it would offer a free ride to anyone using its UberPool carpooling service to go to a protest at City Hall in lower Manhattan.

irishtimes.com French police have detained two executives from Uber for questioning as a government clampdown intensifies on the US-based taxi and ride-sharing service.

news.com.au An American who staged an elaborate disappearing act five years ago has been arrested by police in Queensland investigating a routine burglary.

abc.net.au Lawyers are calling for reforms to Australia's political donation laws after the ABC's Four Corners program uncovered links between Mafia figures and senior politicians.



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