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'Succession' tops Emmy nominations with 25 as 'Squid Game' makes history
AFP, Published on 13/07/2022
» LOS ANGELES: HBO's "Succession" topped this year's Emmy nominations, earning 25 nods on Tuesday, as "Squid Game" became the first non-English-language drama series shortlisted for glory for television's equivalent of the Oscars.
Oprah Winfrey, Alec Baldwin among Emmy Award presenters
Associated Press, Published on 06/09/2017
» NEW YORK -- CBS says Oprah Winfrey, Alec Baldwin and Jim Parsons are among the stars who will be handing out trophies at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Drunk-driving actress reports for social service
King-oua Laohong, Published on 24/08/2017
» Former actress Anna Hamblaouris, who was convicted of drunken driving causing death two years ago, reported to the Probation Department on Thursday to begin community service with the Poh Teck Tung Foundation for again driving under the influence and crashing in May this year.
Bad state of affairs
News, Postbag, Published on 01/06/2017
» Why is PTT, which already has put its Amazon coffee shops everywhere, now allowed to use its power as a state energy monopoly to compete against hotels?
A setback on drink driving
News, Editorial, Published on 30/05/2017
» The next time the police and government begin a campaign to crack down on drink driving, the country has the right to remain sceptical. This is because authorities have clearly showed they have no intention of enforcing this law. Last week, faced with a great opportunity to show they brook no exceptions to enforcing the drink-driving law, police and prosecutors punted. Once again, a real-world case intruded upon the government's claim that everyone must be treated equally before the law.
Actress arrested for drink-driving gets bail
Online Reporters, Published on 22/05/2017
» An actress and model involved in a crash that killed a policeman two years ago has been arrested on a drink-driving charge after her sedan hit another car in a pub parking lot in Bangkok’s Huay Kwang district, police said.
Speeding + double parking = disaster
Jon Fernquest, Published on 22/07/2016
» Speeding cars, drivers dozing off, not watching in front, dangerously passing other vehicles, all can be avoided with careful defensive driving.
A crash course in systematic injustice
News, Editorial, Published on 20/03/2016
» Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An expensive car crashes. One or more people die. A person with a recognisable name, either through their own fame or the position of their parents, emerges from the wreckage or flees the scene. No breath test is administered. Compensation is offered and the family tries to wriggle their way out of any legal consequences. The police fail dismally at their job.
Carving into the smelliest stories of the year
Spectrum, Published on 03/01/2016
» From the political arena of football administration to the floodplains of downtown Bangkok and the iron-clad corruption-free Hua Hin monument, controversy was out of the ballpark in 2015.
They took my breath away
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/07/2015
» Late Saturday night something happened to me that has never occurred before in the quarter-century I have spent here in Thailand. I was breathalysed. It was an experience that filled me with a number of emotions.