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By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
Bangkok’s massive multi-million dollar airport terminal tonight resembles a night market. It’s teaming with yellow-clad protesters and lined with make-shift stalls selling badges, t-shirts, stickers and jewelry, as well as food and drink. Outside, the passenger drop-off zone is a sea of yellow protesters rattling their plastic “clappers” as they [...]

By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
 BANGKOK, Thailand – Late tonight, one of Asia’s busiest airports remained under siege, sealed off by several thousand anti-government protesters. The protesters, clad in yellow – the color of the king – sat on mats and cardboard, in the road outside the main terminal building, where cars and buses usually [...]

By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent LAGUNA, Philippines - Robert Zeigler was a terrific host, bubbling with enthusiasm as he told me about the new varieties of rice that could bring enormous relief to the world’s poor.
“This is a transformational technology. It gives me goose bumps,” he said, pointing at clusters of rice stems [...]

By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
GUANGZHOU, Guangdong Province – Seeing the jostling crowds at the Guangzhou auto show, it seems hard to believe that car sales have slowed in China.
Over two sprawling levels of a convention center here, flashy sports cars, minivans, SUVs, Jeeps, the odd concept vehicle, even RVs, beckoned people to imagine [...]

Scientists took two years to unearth a 4,300-year-old pyramid in Saqqara, Egypt. It’s believed to be the tomb for Queen Sesheshet. NBC News’ Charlene Gubash reports.

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