It’s water festival time in Thailand where many are marking the country’s traditional New Year, splashing each other with colorful water guns and buckets in an often raucous celebration that draws thousands of people, even as this year the Southeast Asian nation marks record-high temperatures causing concern. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#GlobalWarming#climatecrisis#climatechange#Thailand
Rebels claim they drove out last junta battalion in Myanmar border town
> Anti-junta rebels and allied forces on the #Thailand-#Myanmar border have driven out the military’s last battalion from a major trade hub in Myanmar’s Kayin state,
Kämpfe in Grenzstadt: Thailands sorgenvoller Blick auf Myanmar
Der Bürgerkrieg in Myanmar hat sich an die Grenze zu Thailand verlagert. Bislang hatte dort das Militärregime das Sagen, nun übernehmen die Rebellen. Das lässt nicht nur Thailand aufhorchen. Von A. Henkel.
About 200 #Myanmar military personnel withdrew to a bridge to #Thailand on Thursday after a days-long assault by the #AntiJunta resistance, which declared it had won control of the critical border town of #Myawaddy, the latest in a string of rebel wins. The military has already lost control of areas along Myanmar's borders with #Bangladesh, #China and #India, while suffering a significant loss of manpower. #MyanmarCrisis
Uneventfully home from 2.5 weeks visiting family and travelling a bit in Thailand during its hottest time of the year - 40 degrees or over every day up in the North East where we visited Buriram and, at long last, Khon Kaen; high 30s in Bangkok every day. I’m looking forward to jeans and a jacket, once more. Photos will be up soon for wider public consumption - I’ve got a bit of processing to do of the ones from the “nice” camera.
Thailand says it is prepared to receive 100,000 people fleeing Myanmar
> Thailand is prepared to accept 100,000 people fleeing Myanmar, its foreign minister said on Tuesday (Apr 9), as fighting near a crucial border town rumbled on.