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Bangkok to host 2024 World Tuna Conference

This year’s conference runs under the theme ‘Advancing Blue Transformation, Sustainable Development and Innovation through the Global Tuna Industry’.

According to the official statement from INFOFISH, the event will bring together leading speakers, experts and representatives from the global tuna industry, including the world’s major producers, processors and marketers, policymakers, industry experts, regional fisheries management organizations, non-government organizations, community groups, as well as leading scientists and researchers to speak.

Turbulence injures 27 on Aeroflot flight to Bangkok

No injuries were life-threatening, but several passengers suffered broken bones and three needed surgery, Russian officials said.

A passenger described being "hurled" up to the ceiling, trying to cling on amid shaking which "wouldn't stop".

The turbulence occurred in clear skies, which meant the crew were not able to warn passengers, the airline said.

"The reasons behind the injures were that some of the passengers had not had their seatbelts fastened," Aeroflot said in a statement.

Python in the loo bites Thai man's penis

Attaporn Boonmakchuay was smiling as Thai television stations interviewed him in his hospital bed about the intimate intrusion, and doctors said he would recover. But photos of his blood-splattered bathroom in Chachoengsao province, east of Bangkok, were testimony to his ordeal.

The 38-year-old told Thai TV Channel 7 that he struggled to remove the snake for 30 minutes Wednesday before he managed to free himself with help from his wife and a neighbor. After his wife tied a rope around the snake, Attaporn pried open its jaws before passing out.

Asian National Olympic Committees given reassurances over Zika ahead of Rio 2016

Representatives of NOCs from South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia were told that the number of mosquitoes was dropping as Brazil entered the winter months and that a series of preventative measures have been put in place to reduce the threat even further in venues and accommodation to be used for the Olympic Games. 

The measures include extensive spraying of competition venues and the Athletes’ Village, air conditioning to keep the temperature cool and windows closed and plug-in devices to ensure 24-hour vigilance inside apartments.

Malaysia detains 8 suspects for questioning about Thai blast

National deputy police chief Noor Rashid Ibrahim said they were detained in the past week in Kuala Lumpur as well as in northeastern Kelantan state.

Uighurs are an ethnic minority in China and complain of oppression by the government. Some Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs) have been involved in a separatist movement in the Chinese region of Xinjiang where most of them live.

Hundreds of Thais defy protest ban in anti-junta march

Lines of police stood by as a crowds of people chanting "no dictatorship", some carrying anti-junta banners, marched peacefully on Bangkok's Democracy Monument, against the orders of a government widely condemned for using draconian measures to silence detractors.

The protest was to mark the ninth anniversary of a coup against the government of Thaksin Shinawatra that many Thais see as the trigger for an intractable conflict that is showing no signs of abating.

Thailand asks China to look for suspect in deadly bombing

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said Friday that he did not know whether China would hand over the suspect if or when he was arrested. Police have suggested a man carrying a Chinese passport in the name Abudureheman Abudusataer may have directed the bombing of the Erawan Shrine.

The man, also known by the nickname Izan or Ishan, reportedly left Thailand on Aug. 16 for Bangladesh and then China.

Thai police seek 10th suspect in deadly Bangkok bombing

Authorities will seek an arrest warrant soon for a man who shared an apartment with a suspect who was arrested a week ago when a police raid found bomb-making materials in his room, said national police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavornsiri, adding that the man's nationality was unknown.

The arrested man, whom Thai authorities have identified as Adem Karadak, was brought to court Saturday to obtain permission for his detention to be extended. 

Thai police seek 2 new suspects in Bangkok bombing probe

The bombing took place two weeks ago.

National police spokesman Prawuth Thavornsiri said he was certain the two were part of a group responsible for the Aug. 17 blast at the Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok that killed 20 people, more than half of them foreigners.

Police say man carrying backpack is Bangkok bomber

"The yellow shirt guy is not just the suspect. He is the bomber," police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavornsiri told The Associated Press.

Prawut earlier released several photos of the man, with and without the backpack, on social media. 

The images were apparently taken from closed-circuit video at the Erawan Shrine on Monday evening before the bomb exploded. He confirmed that the man is suspected in the bombing when contacted by The Associated Press.