Thailand

Thailand has become the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage after the Senate approved the final version of the marriage equality bill.

Ukrainian athlete Veronika Marchenko won a license for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, taking third place at the world qualifying tournament in Antalya, Turkey.

80 countries and 4 organisations supported the final communiqué of the Peace Summit.

Thailand will join the Peace Summit in Switzerland on June 15-16.

The United States imposed sanctions on 3 Chinese nationals and 3 Thai companies for their involvement in a cybercrime network involving COVID-related fraud, bomb threats, and a botnet that hijacked computers, causing significant financial losses.

Vietnam is experiencing the longest heat wave in 30 years, which has caused water levels to drop and up to 200 tons of fish to die in reservoirs in the south of the country.

The EU and the US have expressed concern over Iraq's new law criminalizing LGBTQ+ relationships with up to 15 years in prison, criticizing it as a threat to human rights and freedoms.

The Biden administration is tightening rules on the export of civilian weapons to 36 countries to prevent them from being used to commit crimes and human rights violations.

A resident of Ternopil tried to illegally send abroad fossilized prints of prehistoric creatures 443 million years old, which were seized by Kyiv customs.

First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andriy Sybiga received copies of credentials from the newly appointed ambassadors of Thailand and Australia to Ukraine and discussed with them support for Ukraine, sanctions pressure on Russia and strengthening bilateral relations.

Israel temporarily closed Ben Gurion Airport for three hours on April 14 amid an expected Iranian drone attack, while the Israeli Air Force was put on high alert and dozens of planes took to the skies.

The position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary remains vacant in 30 Ukrainian embassies in different countries, including the UK, Belarus, Ghana and others, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Human Resources Department reports.

Ukrainian weightlifter Anastasia Manevska won three bronze medals in the 87 kg weight category at the World Championships in Phuket, Thailand.

Thailand is proposing to introduce a single tourist visa valid in six Southeast Asian countries - Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar - to increase tourism revenues.

The US and UK are investigating more than $20 billion in cryptocurrency transfers to Russia through the Russian exchange Garantex using Tether, suspected of facilitating financial crimes and illegal transfers.

Thailand's lower house of parliament has passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage, which, if approved by the Senate and the King, will make Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize such unions.

Telegram has suffered a massive outage affecting users in many countries, including Ukraine, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Italy, Thailand, the United States, and Russia, with users experiencing problems with the app and sending/receiving messages.

Thailand is considering restricting mango exports due to complaints from locals that russian tourists take too much fruit out of the country.

Turkish exports to Russia dropped by 33% in February 2024 amid sanctions imposed by the US and EU on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

A major data leak revealed that China may have hired a private company to spy on foreign governments and monitor its own citizens.

The Houthi leader has threatened to intensify attacks on ships in the Red Sea and adjacent waters using new underwater weapons.

The European Union has agreed on a new package of sanctions against Russia, which for the first time targets Chinese and Indian companies accused of supporting Moscow.

Thailand is going to ban recreational use of cannabis and propose a new bill allowing only medical use of the drug.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine denied that diplomats had abandoned the Ukrainian citizen detained in Thailand, saying that the embassy had been assisting him since his detention for overstaying his visa and was now organizing his return to Ukraine.