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  • WORLD

    Thailand joins new call for Hamas to free hostages

    Published on 25/04/2024

    » WASHINGTON - The United States and 17 other countries including Thailand on Thursday issued an appeal for Hamas to release sick, elderly and wounded hostages as a pathway to end the crisis in Gaza.

  • WORLD

    Harvey Weinstein sex crimes conviction overturned

    Published on 25/04/2024

    » NEW YORK - The highest court in New York state has overturned the 2020 sex crimes conviction of former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, in the case that helped trigger the #MeToo movement.

  • THAILAND

    Yingluck in the clear over funding scandal

    Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 25/04/2024

    » The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has decided not to appeal the Supreme Court ruling that cleared former premier Yingluck Shinawatra and five others of malfeasance in connection with a 240-million baht public relations campaign, said a source close to the matter.

  • THAILAND

    Educators jailed over ‘tea money’

    Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 25/04/2024

    » The former director and deputy director of Samsenwittayalai School have each been sentenced to 20 years in prison for taking “tea money” bribes from six parents in exchange for enrolling their children in 2017.

  • THAILAND

    ‘Big Joke’ fights suspension

    Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 25/04/2024

    » Sidelined deputy police chief Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn went to police headquarters on Thursday to appeal against his suspension and vowed to take legal action against any opponents who try to block him from becoming the next national police chief.

  • GENERAL

    Banks to cut rates by 25 bps for 'vulnerable groups'

    Reuters, Published on 25/04/2024

    » Banks will cut lending rates by 25 basis points for vulnerable groups for a period of six months, the Thai Bankers Association (TBA) said on Thursday, responding to a government request to help small businesses.

  • GENERAL

    US seeks to jail Binance founder

    Published on 24/04/2024

    » NEW YORK - Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, should serve three years in prison after pleading guilty to violating laws against money laundering, US prosecutors said on Tuesday.

  • OPINION

    Are all of us ready for AI creative destruction?

    Oped, Published on 24/04/2024

    » The ancient Chinese concept of yin and yang attests to humans' tendency to see patterns of interlocked opposites in the world around us, a predilection that has lent itself to various theories of natural cycles in social and economic phenomena. Just as the great medieval Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun saw the path of an empire's eventual collapse imprinted in its ascent, the twentieth-century economist Nikolai Kondratiev postulated that the modern global economy moves in "long wave" super-cycles.

  • WORLD

    UK ready to start deporting migrants to Rwanda

    Published on 23/04/2024

    » LONDON - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed that nothing would prevent him from sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, after parliament finally approved the divisive policy that is designed to deter migrants from travelling in small boats to Britain.

  • LIFE

    Old places, new menus

    Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 23/04/2024

    » Bored of eating the same thing twice? Fear no more, here's a list of restaurants that have shuffled things up to make sure you're never bored or short of choices while dining out. Spring has sprung!

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