Diary

ANKARA

Here are the main stories that the Anadolu Agency's English News Desk is planning to cover Sunday, May 3, 2015:

TURKEY 

ISTANBUL - President Erdogan to attend 51st Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey's award ceremony. 

EUROPE

GERMANY 

DUSSELDORF/DORTMUND — Turkish PM Davutoglu will open new building of Turkish Consulate General in Dusseldorf and address Turkish immigrants at a rally in western German city of Dortmund. 

SE ASIA-PACIFIC

THAILAND

BANGKOK - Thai junta chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha promises to spare no effort in finding the culprits behind the smuggling of migrants, as a total of 26 bodies are exhumed from shallow graves at a human trafficking camp in southern Thailand.

BANGKOK - Director of NGO focused on suffering of Rohingya tells Anadolu Agency that smuggling of Rohingya and Bangladeshis to Malaysia through southern Thailand is a complex and ever evolving process.

PHILIPPINES

ZAMBOANGA - Philippines reacts to defeat of Manny Pacquiao in 'fight of the century.'