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Trump has been convicted. Can he still run for president?
New York Times, Published on 31/05/2024
» NEW YORK - Not since Eugene V. Debs campaigned from a prison cell more than a century ago has the United States experienced what is now happening: a prominent candidate with felony convictions running for president. And never before has that candidate been someone with a real chance of winning.
BGRIM snaps up US hydropower plant
Business, Published on 31/05/2024
» B.Grimm Power Plc (BGRIM) is positioning itself as a global player in the renewable energy industry with a new acquisition.
Vietnamese EV maker may delay $4bn US plant
Published on 29/05/2024
» The Vietnamese electric car maker VinFast is looking at further delaying a planned $4-billion factory in North Carolina, a person briefed on the matter says, as the loss-making company struggles to gain favour with US consumers.
Premier food and beverage expo returns for another edition
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 23/05/2024
» Thaifex – Anuga Asia 2024, a leading food and beverage trade show in Asia Pacific, will bring exhibitors from 45 countries at Impact Muang Thong Thani from May 28 to June 1.
Farm animals are hauled all over the country; so are their pathogens
Published on 20/05/2024
» The bird flu virus that is spreading through American dairy cows can probably be traced back to a single spillover event. Late last year, scientists believe, the virus jumped from wild birds into cattle in the Texas panhandle. By this spring, the virus, known as H5N1, had travelled hundreds of miles or more, appearing on farms in Idaho, North Carolina and Michigan.
The popular decimation of India's democracy
Oped, Pranab Bardhan, Published on 18/05/2024
» India's ongoing parliamentary election, in which nearly a billion people casting their votes over a six-week period, should represent an extraordinary exercise of democracy. The bleak reality, however, is that the election appears poised to consolidate a decade-long process of democratic decay, which has included the decimation of liberal institutions and practices and weakening of political competition. After all, the leader who has presided over this process -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- remains wildly popular.
For journalists, neutrality is not the goal
Oped, Published on 17/05/2024
» My ability to be neutral as a political journalist depends on the intellectual honesty of the people -- and the society -- I cover.
For China, Europe visit part of a wider confrontation
News, Peter Apps, Published on 14/05/2024
» In the Serbian village of Budjanovci outside Belgrade, people have talked for years about the Chinese teams that descended on the area following the shooting down of a US F-117 stealth fighter in March 1999, offering to buy pieces of wreckage taken by villagers as souvenirs.
Olivia Rodrigo kicks off her first Asia tour in Bangkok
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 13/05/2024
» Three-time Grammy award-winning artist Olivia Rodrigo announced her first-ever run of shows in Asia and Australia, adding nine international dates to her Guts world tour.
Pop icon Brian Wilson placed under conservatorship
Published on 11/05/2024
» A judge in California has ruled that Brian Wilson, the 81-year-old chief musical visionary of the Beach Boys, will be placed under a conservatorship following the death of his wife, who had cared for him as he struggled with a neurocognitive disorder.