BANGKOK - THAILAND'S parliament will meet in special session on Wednesday for talks aimed at resolving an ongoing political crisis that erupted into street violence in the capital last week.
BANGKOK - THAILAND could lose US$5.35 billion (S$8.01 billion) in tourism revenue and millions of visitors in 2009 following its latest bout of political turmoil, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
Violent street protests, the storming of a regional summit being held in a Thai coastal resort and ongoing emergency measures have all hit the sector hard only weeks after other demonstrations shuttered the kingdom's airports.
PHNOM PENH - A FORMER Khmer Rouge jailer told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court on Tuesday a jungle camp where starving prisoners were tortured was 'a place where humanity was smashed'.
