Reuters Southeast Asia News Highlights 0900 GMT Jan 26
- - - - BANGKOK - Pressure mounted on Thailand to come clean on allegations the army towed Rohingya refugees out to sea and abandoned them in boats without engines, after CNN showed pictures depicting exactly that. The cable news channel also interviewed a Rohingya man captured on one remote Thai island in the Andaman Sea, who said he had been on one of six boats that arrived in December carrying the migrants from the northwest of neighbouring Myanmar.- - - - PHNOM PENH - Thailand and Cambodia agreed to more talks to resolve a dispute over a stretch of land at their border near the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple that spilled over into fighting last year. "This is another step forward. We must show our restraint," Cambodian foreign minister Hor Namhong told reporters after a two-hour meeting with his Thai counterpart, Kasit Piromya.
- - - - BANGKOK - This week's edition of the Economist has not been distributed in Thailand because of local objections to an article about the royal family, the second disruption in two months, the magazine said. "This week our distributors in Thailand have decided not to deliver The Economist in light of our coverage relating to the Thai monarchy," it said in an email to Bangkok-based subscribers. - - - - (Compiled by Carl Bagh)
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