News and Events in the Las Vegas Thai Community
Lawyers from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel wrote memos asserting that waterboarding and other forms of torture were legal. But the rationale these memos provided distorted domestic and…
I was abducted from exile in Southeast Asia and secretly jailed in one of Libya’s worst dungeons. But the worst torture of my life wasn’t done to me by Col.…
President Trump’s pick to run the C.I.A., Gina Haspel, told White House officials last week that she would withdraw her nomination if they were concerned her role in the brutal…
A community has formed around Chinese opera in Thailand, preserving one of the oldest dramatic art forms in the world. BANGKOK — “Anywhere they play in Bangkok, I’ll be there,”…
____ Photo Credit Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times 5. The Gladiators of ‘Scandal’ Leave the Arena As “Scandal” heads toward its finale, Shonda Rhimes, the show’s creator, and…
Photo Anastasia Vashukevich, left, and her associate Alexander Kirillov, far right, after their arrest in Pattaya, Thailand, in February. Credit Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press BANGKOK — A Belarusian escort jailed in…
The aluminum tycoon, Oleg V. Deripaska, has close ties with Mr. Putin and with Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, who has been indicted on money laundering charges by…
BANGKOK — A Belarusian escort with close ties to a powerful Russian oligarch said from behind bars in Bangkok on Monday that she had more than 16 hours of audio…
Mr. Deripaska has business ties to Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, who is under investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel looking into the campaign’s connections…
As of Monday, the department had received 31,801 calls this year for help in removing snakes. That is more calls than for all of last year (29,919), and more than…
By all accounts, the Thai troops fought well. From their base at Bear Cat Camp in Bien Hoa Province, they clashed with the Viet Cong in medium and small engagements…
BANGKOK — With the gilded pageantry of a bygone era, the cremation ceremony of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand began in earnest on Thursday. Hundreds of thousands of black-clad mourners…