UN, environmental groups now warn timber sales to China are accelerating the loss of forest cover
Authorities say prime motivation was retaliation for police crackdown on human smuggling, but analysts point to government's decision in July to return 109 Uighurs back to China
All 89 seats in parliament are being contested simultaneously for the first time since independence, making the polls a key popularity test for the ruling party
New drafting committee has six months to redraw constitution, which must be approved by legislature before it goes to referendum, meaning elections will likely be held in 2017
Previous talks have failed in part because the insurgent factions have been divided, but recently several of the groups formed an umbrella organization
Analysts are divided over whether Prime Minister Najib Razak can hang on to power
Markets plummeted in Asia, Europe, US Monday as concern over China's faltering economic growth pushed down stock and oil prices around the world
More than 20 countries issue travel warnings after Monday’s deadly blast at religious shrine in Bangkok; Thai authorities step up security
Gathering of IUCN in Bangkok warns that unless countries in region can work together to better protect shrinking ecosystems, scores of plants and animals will face extinction
Scientists say decades of economic development, hydropower-dam construction, lax law enforcement and trafficking have taken their toll
New mining laws expected to entice more foreign investment, but rights groups fear local communities could be imperiled without more solid legal protections
Thai authorities are facing severe criticism for forcibly returning a group of Uighurs to China earlier this month
Australian publisher Alan Morison, Thai reporter Chutima Sidasathian face up to 7 years in prison
Heavily criticized nation forcibly deported more than 100 ethnic Uighurs to China, will meet with activists, others Friday to discuss fate of 50 more who remain
Deportation of more than 100 ethnic Uighurs followed months of negotiations and came after more than 170 Uighurs were cleared to travel to Turkey last week
But students still face sedition charges and there are increasing calls for the government to drop all charges against them
Local police block HRW press conference on abuse report saying event threatened national security and bilateral relations
On anniversary of founding of country's democracy, activists protest ruling military junta, which seized power in bloodless coup last year
Largest trafficking probe in country’s history results in 56 arrests, warrants for more than 60
Some 2,000 refugees from Bangladesh and ethnic Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar are encamped in Aceh after being rescued at sea by local fishermen
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