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recent Jakarta gubernatorial decree providing technical guidelines on polygamy for the city’s male civil servants has renewed calls for the practice’s abolition, with critics calling it ...

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Thailand has a history of pushing refugees back across its borders and of deporting dissidents. In 2015, Thailand deported 100 Uyghurs to China, sparking international outcry.

NARATHIWAT: The number of Malaysian couples getting married in southern Thailand has dropped following stricter border ...

JAKARTA: New rules on polygamy among male civil servants in Jakarta seek to “impose stricter conditions” on the practice, the capital’s acting governor said on Monday (Jan 20) amid criticism ...

More than a thousand LGBTQ couples across Thailand will marry as same-sex unions become legal One of today's biggest events is happening at a luxury mall in central Bangkok, where more than 100 ...

Bangkok — Three foreign nationals including an American man died and seven other people were injured by a fire at a hotel in a popular tourist area of Thailand's capital Bangkok, city ...

Come this Thursday, their wedded status will be recognized by the nation as well, when a law that allows members of the LGBTQ+ community in Thailand to get married and have the same legal rights ...

Furthermore, he noted that Japa may be contributing to a rise in polygamy among some some men, who, with increased financial resources acquired abroad, may feel empowered to take on multiple wives ...

It is not for nothing that Thailand is called the Detroit of South-East Asia. In its heyday the country built a car-export powerhouse by combining Japanese auto-making know-how with a competitive ...