theaustralian.com.au Many terminally ill cancer sufferers will be ''cured'' of the disease by a groundbreaking class of drugs described as heralding a new era in treatment. A British trial brought ''spectacular'' results.

bbc.com A pair of cancer drugs can shrink tumors in nearly 60 percent of people with advanced melanoma, a new trial has suggested.

Phuket Update As Visakha Bucha is a holy day, shops, bars and restaurants are barred from selling alcohol for 24 hours from midnight on Sunday night.

telegraph.co.uk British PM David Cameron has ruled out withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights despite objections from Michael Gove, the Justice Secretary, and Theresa May, the Home Secretary.

bernama Royal Malaysia Police received information that individuals involved with the trafficking jungle camps and the killings were believed to be hiding in Ranong, a Thai-Burma border port.

bangkokpost.com Editorial: What occurred on Friday was by all means a feather in the Thai leader's cap. Myanmar, in particular, and Bangladesh are careless (or worse) about human rights, opportunities and security for their citizens.


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huffingtonpost.com Leicester City Football Club launched an internal investigation following a report in the Sunday Mirror that three Foxes players took part in an orgy in Thailand. The report features video of the sportsmen directing racist abuse at three local prostitutes.

bangkokpost.com Leicester is owned by Thai billionaires Vichai and Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha. The club was touring Thailand after securing its status in the Premier League last weekend. Leicester City shirts are sold with ''Amazing Thailand'' emblazoned on the back.

theguardian.com Leicester has said it is ''deeply concerned'' and has launched an investigation after calls for the trio - including the son of the club's manager - to be sacked. The club has been in ''strategic, international partnership'' with the Tourism Authority of Thailand for three years. Manager Nigel Pearson has campaigned against racism and is a patron of the charity, Show Racism the Red Card.

nationmultimedia.com Krisada Tansakul, president of the Thai Hotels Association's southern chapter, said the tourism business in Phuket would return to nearly normal in the coming peak season, running from October till March, as many foreigners should return to the famous island for vacation.



nationmultimedia.com A Rohingya migrant, Sanina, said illegal migrants in Ranong had to pay state officials monthly to avoid arrest. Many of them paid ''brokers,'' who claimed they could obtain documents showing that they were allowed to live and work in Thailand, he said.

theweek.com The horrors of the transatlantic slave trade are not resigned to history. They've been revived on creaky boats plying the Bay of Bengal. In 2015, there is a trade in human cargo that evokes the barbaric middle passage to America in the 1700s. The chattel isn't African captives but men and women called Rohingya, a Muslim ethnicity fleeing apartheid in Myanmar.



bangkokpost.com Their Majesties the King and the Queen have returned to Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok from Klai Kangwon Palace in Hua Hin, Post Today Online reported.

nationmultimedia.com Dusit International will open Dusit Thani Hotel School in Bangkok in August, aiming to produce up to 4000 Asean-standard workers per year for the hotel and tourism industry.

channelnewsasia.com Roadside bombs in southern Thailand killed one police officer and wounded seven members of the security forces in a region scarred by a long-running Muslim separatist insurgency, police said. The dead officer was part of a bomb disposal team caught in a secondary blast.

bangkokpost.com Police seized and tagged about 200 motorcycles after arresting 400 dek waen at a Saturday night street race in Thon Buri - the biggest such bust ever.

cbc.ca US Secretary of State John Kerry has delayed his trip back to the United States to stay in a Swiss hospital overnight after breaking his leg in a bicycle crash.

nationmultimedia.com Statistics released on World No Tobacco Day revealed 50,000 people die each year due to smoking, yet the number of smokers rose rose by as much as 21 percent last year.

news.com.au An airline has sparked outrage for allegedly refusing a Muslim woman an unopened can of coke - in case she attacked passengers with it. Thousands have lashed out at United Airlines's alleged treatment of university chaplain Tahera Ahmad, described in reports as a moderate Muslim, during a flight from Chicago to Washington DC

nnt Thailand has received compliments from the US Secretary of Defense for its provision of aid to Nepal and its commitment to clamping down on illegal fishing activities.

rt.com The Conservative government's threat to withdraw Britain from the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) risks repeating what happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, said a senior UN representative.

news.com.au Australia has put pressure on Beijing to end its controversial land reclamation program in the South China Sea after weapons were reportedly moved to the man-made islands last week.



scmp.com China's top military representative to a regional security summit dismissed speculation Beijing would soon establish an air defence identification zone (ADIZ) in the disputed South China Sea, calling on other countries to stop trying to ''sow discord'' over the issue.

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mirror.co.uk Football Association chairman Greg Dyke called for ''10 large countries'' to pull out of the World Cup tournament to make a real stand against corruption in Fifa.

bbc.com Fifa president Sepp Blatter is the victim of a conspiracy from ''behind the scenes,'' his daughter has told the BBC amid the corruption crisis gripping world football.



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