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LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman, left, stands with the 4 Aces GC team, from left, Talor Gooch, Captian Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed and Pat Perez, after winning the team's fourth straight tournament at the LIV Golf Invitational-Chicago tournament Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022, in Sugar Hill, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) **FILE**

World ranking rejects last-minute LIV Golf bid for points

By Doug Ferguson - Associated Press

An anti-government protester climb on car beside a poster of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha must suspend his active duties while the court decides whether he has overstayed his legal term in office. The poster reads &quot;Time is over.&quot; (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

High court ‘suspends’ coup leader Prayuth in unusual move

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Major fire damage fills the interior at the Mountain B pub in the Sattahip district of Chonburi province, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Bangkok, Thailand. More than a dozen people were killed and dozens injured when a fire broke out early Friday morning at the crowded music pub, police and rescue workers said. (AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)

Fire at music pub in eastern Thailand kills at least 13

By Tassanee Vejponsa - Associated Press

Phyo Zeya Thaw arrives at the Myanmar parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Aug. 19, 2015. Myanmar has carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years. Phyo Zeya Thaw, a 41-year-old former lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party also known as Maung Kyaw, was convicted in January by a closed military court of offenses involving explosives, bombings and financing terrorism. (AP Photo, File)

Widespread condemnation of Myanmar’s execution of prisoners

By David Rising and Eileen Ng - Associated Press

About 20 people of African descent living abroad gather for dinner at a Jamaican restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand to celebrate America’s newest federal holiday, Juneteenth on Saturday, June 18, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand. As the United States marks only the second federally recognized Juneteenth, Black Americans living overseas have embraced the holiday as a day of reflection and an opportunity to educate people in their host countries on Black history. (AP Photo/Annika Wolters)

Black Americans living abroad reflect on Juneteenth

By Annika Wolters - Associated Press

U.S.-China rivalry plays out in remote Thai town

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

A cannabis leaf is put on a pizza at a restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov. 24, 2021. The Pizza Company, a Thai major fast food chain, has been promoting its &quot;Crazy Happy Pizza&quot; this month, an under-the-radar product topped with a cannabis leaf. It’s legal but won’t get you high. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai chain’s cannabis pizza: trendy but won’t get you high

By Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul - Associated Press

Little Laos makes big play in cryptocurrency, raising environmental fears

By Richard S. Ehrlich

A health worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to a resident of the Klong Toey area, a neighborhood currently having a spike in coronavirus cases, in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 10, 2021. The health authorities in Thailand said Monday they have confirmed the country’s first cases of the Indian variant of the coronavirus, in a Thai woman and her 4-year-old son who have been in state quarantine since arriving from Pakistan. (AP Photo/Vichan Poti)

Indian virus variant found in Thai travelers from Pakistan

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 4, 2021, file photo, a health worker administers a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to residents of the Klong Toey area, a neighborhood currently having a spike in coronavirus cases, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand sought Thursday, May 6, 2021, to assure its foreign residents that they can get COVID-19 vaccinations, countering comments by some officials suggesting they would be at the end of the line for inoculations. (AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)

Thailand wants to buy more vaccines as surge worsens

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, May 4, 2021, photo, a health worker administers a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to residents of the Klong Toey area, a neighborhood currently having a spike in coronavirus cases, in Bangkok, Thailand. Health officials rushed to vaccinate thousands of people in Bangkok's biggest slum on Wednesday as a new surge in COVID-19 cases spread through densely populated low-income areas located in the capital's central business district.(AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)

Thailand fights to contain COVID-19 surge in Bangkok

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL and PATRICK QUINN - Associated Press

Palau is one of the tiny Pacific players on the front lines of a high-stakes rivalry between the U.S. and China.. (Associated Press)

Deterrent against China: Palau invites U.S. military to build on remote islands

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

A shop assistant wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus stands in front of her shop in Khao San road, a popular hangout for Thais and tourists in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, April 26, 2021. Cinemas, parks and gyms were among venues closed in Bangkok as Thailand sees its worst surge of the pandemic. A shortage of hospital beds, along with a failure to secure adequate coronavirus vaccine supplies, have pushed the government into imposing the new restrictions. (AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)

Thailand’s prime minister fined for breaking face mask rule

By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON - Associated Press

A health worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to a Buddhist monk at Nak Prok Temple in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand hits new daily record with nearly 1,000 virus cases

By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON - Associated Press

A Buddhist monk waits to receive a dose of the Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Nak Prok Temple in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand faces growing outbreak ahead of New Year travel

By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON - Associated Press

A health worker administers a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to a person working at an entertainment venue where a new cluster of COVID-19 infections was found, in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand confirms first local cases of coronavirus variant

By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON - Associated Press

Thailand orders bar closings in capital to stop virus spread

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Sparks fly from the barrel of a gun used by riot police to disperse protesters who removed container vans used as a barricade in front of the Grand Palace Saturday, March 20, 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's student-led pro-democracy movement is holding a rally in the Thai capital, seeking to press demands that include freedom for their leaders, who are being held without bail on charges of defaming the monarchy. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai police use tear gas, rubber bullets to break up protest

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In this image taken from MRTV video Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, left, talks with Thailand Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai, center, and Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin, right, during their meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Regional diplomatic efforts to resolve Myanmar's political crisis gathered pace Wednesday, while protests continued in Yangon and other cities calling for the country's coupmakers to stand down and Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government to be returned to power. (MRTV via AP)

Indonesia presses regional effort to resolve Myanmar crisis

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA - Associated Press

Workers spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus at a shrimp market in Samut Sakhon, Thailand, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Thailand on Monday registered a new daily high of over 900 confirmed new cases of the coronavirus at the province near the capital Bangkok, where a major outbreak occurred in December. (AP Photo)

Thailand confirms record 914 new coronavirus cases

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