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Local admins can help keep smoking rate down
News, Published on 01/06/2025
» Thailand has reduced its smoking rate by 48% over the past 33 years but tobacco use still places a heavy economic burden on low-income households, said the Action on Smoking and Health Foundation (ASH) during World No-Tobacco Day on Saturday.
Sotheby’s postpones auction of Buddhist relics
Published on 08/05/2025
» The jewels are delicate, some just millimetres in length, arranged in intricate patterns of circles and lines. Taken from British-occupied India in 1898, they were discovered alongside bone and ash, said to be the remains of Buddha.
The jazzman of Bangkok
Life, John Clewley, Published on 22/04/2025
» The Bamboo Bar at the famous Oriental Hotel was set up in 1953 during a period when the hotel had several owners, including pioneering photographer and social activist Germaine Krull, and the art collector and silk king Jim Thompson. It quickly became one of the Bangkok's top nightclubs, known for its live jazz sessions.
Incinerator on Koh Lan 'almost done'
News, Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 17/04/2025
» CHON BURI — The waste incineration project on Koh Lan, located off Pattaya, is now 70% complete and could open in six months, said Kiatsak Sriwongchai, the permanent secretary of Pattaya City. Construction started on May 2, 2023, and was expected to wrap by March 28 of last year.
South Korea's 'heartbreaking' wildfires expose super-aged society
AFP, Published on 28/03/2025
» ANDONG, South Korea - Walking with a cane, 84-year-old apple farmer Kim Mi-ja surveys the wreckage of her village, which was reduced to rubble and covered in ash by South Korea's worst wildfires.
New movies out this week: March 27-April 2
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 27/03/2025
» New releases that hit cinemas in Thailand this week.
At least four people dead in South Korea's wildfires
Reuters, Published on 23/03/2025
» SEOUL - At least four people have died and six have been injured in a series of wildfires in South Korea, as firefighters rushed to put out the fires amid dry, windy weather, the Korea Forest Service said on Sunday.
Heathrow Airport reopens but travel industry still scrambling
Published on 22/03/2025
» LONDON - Heathrow Airport said it was “fully operational” on Saturday, a day after a fire knocked out its power supply and shut Europe’s busiest airport, causing global travel chaos.
Heathrow shutdown exposes lack of contingency planning
Published on 21/03/2025
» LONDON - The closure of Heathrow Airport is set to affect the global aviation system for days at a cost of tens of millions of dollars, experts say, posing questions about why better contingency planning was not in place at the hub.
Pope Francis resting after ‘peaceful night’
AFP, Published on 06/03/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis was “resting” on Thursday after spending a “peaceful night”, as he nears three weeks in hospital with pneumonia, the Vatican said.