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From left: Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, U.S. President Donald Trump, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong pose for a family photo during the ASEAN-US 40th Anniversary commemorative Summit in Manila, Philippines on Monday, November 13, 2017. (Manan Vatsyayana/Pool photo via AP) **FILE**

Some in Southeast Asia see a definite upside to Trump’s return to power

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

This photo provided by the Elephant Nature Park shows three of the roughly 100 elephants who are stuck in rising flood waters at the park in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (Darrick Thompson/Elephant Nature Park Via AP)

Floods overflow Thailand’s northern tourist city of Chiang Mai

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An ambulance carrying a body leaves from the hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai police seek negligence charges for a school bus fire that killed 23

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Rescuers gather at the site of a bus that caught fire, carrying young students with their teachers, in suburban Bangkok, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai police seek negligence charges for a school bus fire that killed 23

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, left, and his daughter and newly elected Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrive before the royal endorsement ceremony appointing Paetongtarn as Thailand's new prime minister at Pheu Thai party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit).

Awkward father-daughter dance leaves Thailand with unclear road ahead

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho, father of Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, talks to reporters arrives at Koh Samui provincial court in southern Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. A court in Thailand is expected to sentence the son of the actor accused of killing and dismembering a Colombian surgeon on a popular tourist island.(AP Photo/Thanapat Cherajin)

A Spanish YouTube chef gets life in prison for murder in Thailand

By Sahatthaya Kraikhunthot and Grant Peck - Associated Press

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin talks to reporters during a press conference at Government house in Bangkok, Thailand after a court removed Srettha from office over an ethical violation Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Court orders Thai prime minister to step down over divisive appointment

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Protesters hold placards in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside the High Court in London, Monday, May 20, 2024. Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga over the publication of a trove of classified documents. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stops in Bangkok on his way to a U.S. court and later freedom

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Alanna Durkin Richer and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

A worker from Thailand harvests avocados in a farm field of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) **FILE**

Despite trauma of Oct. 7, Thai workers again flock to Israel for work

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

A participant holds a rainbow flag at government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. Thailand’s Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve a marriage equality bill, clearing the last legislative hurdle for the country to become the first in Southeast Asia to enact such a law. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand’s Senate overwhelmingly approves a landmark bill to legalize same-sex marriages

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Mother, Chamchuri, stand with newborn elephant twins female, left, and male, right, in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, Monday, June 10, 2024. Buddhist monks in Thailand on Friday blessed twin baby elephants, one male, the other female, a week after their rare birth came close to being a tragedy. (AP Photo/Nathathaida Adireksara)

Rare twin elephants in Thailand receive monks’ blessings a week after their tumultuous birth

By Napat Kongsawad - Associated Press

Ambulances wait to carry passengers from a London-Singapore flight that encountered severe turbulence, in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The plane apparently plummeted for a number of minutes before it was diverted to Bangkok, where emergency crews rushed to help injured passengers amid stormy weather, Singapore Airlines said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

British man dies and several passengers are injured when turbulence hits a Singapore Airlines flight

By Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul - Associated Press

Potential candidates to become members of Thailand's next Senate arrive at the Phaya Thai district office in Bangkok on Monday, May 20, 2024. Thailand on Monday officially kicked off the task of selecting a new set of Senators, a process that has become part of the ongoing war between progressive forces hoping for democratic political reforms and conservatives seeking to keep the status quo.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Candidates begin registering in complicated process to select Thailand’s new Senate

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Chinese tourists takes selfies with Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, right, at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn province, Thailand, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Electric shock: Chinese EV makers moving in on rivals in lucrative Thai market

By Richard S. Ehrlich

Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, center, with his son Phantongtae and his daughter Pinthongta, arrives at Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Thaksin Shinawatra, a controversial former Prime Minister of Thailand, made his dramatic return to Thailand last year after nearly a decade of self-imposed exile. Although he was detained in a hospital and never appeared in the public eye for six months after his arrival, his presence in the country alone brings a turmoil into Thai politics like no other politician could ever achieve. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit,File)

Polarizing Thaksin is back, and Bangkok wonders what’s next

By Richard S. Ehrlich

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, center, sits in a vehicle with his daughters Paetongtarn and Pinthongta after being released on parole Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thaksin was released from Police General Hospital where for the last six months he had been serving time for corruption-related offenses. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin is released on parole after serving 6 months in a hospital

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Aleksandr "Shura" Uman, left, and Yegor "Lyova" Bortnik perform during the Bi-2 rock band concert in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Members of the band, which has been critical of the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, were arrested Thursday in the southern resort island of Phuket for playing without proper working papers, and sent to the immigration jail in Bangkok, from which human rights workers fear they could be deported to Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Thailand may deport visiting dissident rock band that criticized war in Ukraine back to Russia

By Jutarat Skulpichetrat - Associated Press

Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin addresses to the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

U.S.-China rivalry reignites as new Thai government finds its footing

By Richard S. Ehrlich

Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra greets his supporters as he arrives at Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Thailand's king granted former prime minister Thaksin a pardon and reduced his eight-year prison sentence to one year, just over a week after the business tycoon-turned-politician returned from 15 years of self-imposed exile. The pardon granted by King Maha Vajiralongkorn was published Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, in the Royal Gazette, making it effective immediately. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn, file)

A long, strange week in Bangkok caps a long, strange odyssey for Thailand’s Thaksin

By Richard S. Ehrlich

Pheu Thai's prime ministerial candidate Srettha Thavisin who is the sole candidate nominated for a parliamentary vote, speaks to media at the party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

New Thai leader Srettha Thavisin is a wealthy property developer who didn’t hide his political views

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press