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  • WORLD

    Singapore to buy four F-35s, with option for eight more

    AFP, Published on 01/03/2019

    » SINGAPORE: Singapore plans to buy four US-made F-35 jet fighters -- one of the most advanced warplanes ever built -- to update its ageing current fleet, the defence minister said on Friday.

  • THAILAND

    Live video takes deepest dive yet

    Published on 09/03/2019

    » ALPHONSE ATOLL, Seychelles: Explorers are preparing to deliver the first live video broadcast from deep below the surface of an ocean.

  • OPINION

    Thai Proverbs: 2019 Edition

    Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 01/02/2019

    » New words and verbal expressions are born every day yet our classic proverbs remain unchanged with references that are dated or we can no longer relate to. I’ll say it’s time to give classic proverbs a makeover with contemporary references. Some meanings are changed, by the way. Shall we give this a try?

  • WORLD

    For some whales, sonar may provoke suicidal behaviour: study

    AFP, Published on 30/01/2019

    » PARIS - Scientists have long known that some beaked whales beach themselves and die in agony after exposure to naval sonar, and now they know why: the giant sea mammals suffer decompression sickness, just like scuba divers.

  • WORLD

    Australia signs massive sub deal with French firm

    AFP, Published on 11/02/2019

    » CANBERRA - Australia formally signed a $50 billion "strategic partnership" with France to build 12 state of the art submarines Monday, a signal of Canberra's willingness to project power across the Pacific.

  • OPINION

    Need meds, not subs

    News, Postbag, Published on 16/01/2019

    » Re: "Prayut slams 'unrealistic' poll pledges", (BP, Jan 15).

  • OPINION

    Who has the lead in the AI race?

    News, Peter Apps, Published on 17/01/2019

    » In October, 31 Chinese teenagers reported to the Beijing Institute of Technology, one of the country's premier military research establishments. Selected from more than 5,000 applicants, Chinese authorities hope they will design a new generation of artificial intelligent weapons systems that could range from microscopic robots to computer worms, submarines, drones and tanks.

  • OPINION

    When the taxmen can actually help people

    News, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 24/12/2018

    » Over the past weeks, I received a number of mails and Line messages, suggesting charity organisations or places where I could make donations that are tax deductible.

  • OPINION

    The joke of law

    News, Published on 01/12/2018

    » The impressively slow progress on Premchai Karnasuta's case for alleged poaching in a national wildlife sanctuary can surprise no one (Editorial, Nov 30). It exemplifies perfectly why Thai people do not trust Thai justice, or rather, Thai rule of law posing as justice. Even when the law manages to be just, it is applied with seemingly blatant discrimination to protect corrupt hi-so types who are members in good standing of the old boys club while coming down mercilessly on the poor and powerless, who correctly see it as being created by traditional hi-so types to keep the masses in their place underfoot. We need not imagine where Premchai would be today had he been an aged peasant picking mushrooms illegally.

  • WORLD

    Mexican presidents accused as defense opens El Chapo trial

    AFP, Published on 14/11/2018

    » NEW YORK - Drug baron Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's defense told his New York trial Tuesday that his cartel bribed Mexican presidents, painting the absent co-defendant as a ruthless criminal who murdered in cold blood.

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