Thailand names a temporary regent while nation mourns
A 96-year-old retired military officer and former prime minister has been named Thailand's temporary Regent.
Lindsay Murdoch is a three-time winner of the Walkley Award, Australia's top award for journalistic excellence. Lindsay is a former correspondent based in Singapore, Jakarta and Darwin. In 1999 he covered the tumultuous events in East Timor, and in 2003 he covered the Iraq war while embedded with US Marines.
A 96-year-old retired military officer and former prime minister has been named Thailand's temporary Regent.
The International Criminal Court has bluntly warned Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte that he could face prosecution over extrajudicial killings.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej designated his only son Maha Vajiralongkorn heir apparent to Thailand's monarchy in 1972.
Bhumibol Adulyadej emerged from obscurity to become the world's longest-ruling monarch and Thailand's most dominant and popular figure in a 70-year reign that revived a faltering centuries-old royal dynasty.
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, has died after a long illness.
Thais have started wearing pink en masse to express their hope that the king will recover from a long illness.
When the country's drug crackdown hit his supply and he found himself smoking what turned out to be candy, addict Ramson Donado decided to surrender.
On foreign policy, maverick Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has everyone guessing. At home, he has been lethal but is still popular
An influential government-controlled Malaysian newspaper has called for the nine Australians arrested for celebrating at Malaysia's Grand Prix win in their budgie smugglers to be deported and banned from ever returning to the country.
The fate of nine young Australians who stripped down at the Grand Prix in Kuala Lumpur will be decided amid heightened political tensions in the multi-ethnic country.
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