BANGKOK, OCT 26 (AFP/APP): The year-long funeral ceremony of Thailand’s former Queen Sirikit started Sunday, with grieving royalists set to salute the procession bringing her remains to lie in state at Bangkok’s Grand Palace.                   The royal family is venerated in Thailand, treated by many as semi-divine figures and lavished with glowing media coverage and gold-adorned portraits hanging in public spaces and private homes nationwide.                   Former Queen Sirikit, the mother of the current King Vajiralongkorn and wife of the nation’s longest-reigning monarch, died late Friday at the age ofRead More

KUALA LUMPUR, OCT 26 (AFP/APP): US President Donald Trump jetted into Malaysia on Sunday to oversee the signing of a Thailand-Cambodia ceasefire pact, after deadly cross-border clashes between the countries flared this summer.                   Here’s what we know about their agreement to uphold a truce, Trump’s role in sealing the deal and the conflict at the heart of the matter.                   – What’s in the deal? –                   Thailand and Cambodia witnessed their worst cross-border clashes in decades in July, when a territory dispute boiled over into five days ofRead More