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Weary LA firefighters brace for 'last' dangerous winds
AFP, Published on 20/01/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - Exhausted Los Angeles firefighters on Sunday braced for the return of yet more dangerously strong gusts, as California's governor slammed "hurricane-force winds of misinformation" surrounding blazes that have killed 27 people.
Sweet dis-harmony
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 29/06/2020
» While the future of the music industry remains shrouded in lockdown mystery, industry insiders believe these difficult times could spark harmony by bringing people together in support of artists and others affected by disruptions caused by Covid-19.
Last light at Lido
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/05/2018
» The Lido Theatre opened on June 27, 1968, a 1,000-seat movie palace in the fast-modernising neighbourhood of Pathumwan. The first title on the marquee was Guns For San Sebastian, a cowboy film starring Anthony Quinn.
DSI couple implicated in B40m Klongchan 'bribe'
King-oua Laohong, Published on 05/05/2017
» The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) found a married couple, both DSI officials, guilty of serious disciplinary violations for allegedly taking a bribe of 40 million baht from the perpetrator of the Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative (KCUC) embezzlement.
Will US economic illiteracy trigger a trade war?
News, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 24/04/2017
» Nearly 100 days after US President Donald Trump took office, he and his commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, continue to commit an economic fallacy that first-year economics students learn to avoid. They claim that America's current-account deficit (or trade deficit), which is in fact the result of America's low and falling saving rate, is an indicator of unfair trade practices by Germany and China, two current-account surplus countries. Their embrace of economic ignorance could lead to disaster.
Spanish prosecutors want Neymar tried in fraud case
AFP, Published on 08/01/2016
» MADRID - Spanish prosecutors have requested that legal action be taken against Brazilian football superstar Neymar over alleged fraud surrounding his transfer to Barcelona.
4 Israelis stabbed, Palestinian attacker dead as violence spikes
AFP, Published on 03/11/2015
» JERUSALEM - Four Israelis were stabbed in separate attacks Monday, the first outside Jerusalem and the West Bank in 10 days, while a Palestinian teenager who tried to knife a soldier was shot dead.
Without decentralisation, unity talk is meaningless
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 11/08/2015
» The military regime has promised to bring unity and reconciliation back to society after the May 22 coup. But any reconciliation efforts have been significantly undermined by the regime's intensified campaign of centralisation and top-down administration.
Suicide or sex game -- US rapist Castro's death disputed
AFP, Published on 11/10/2013
» The sordid tale of Cleveland kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro has taken another lurid turn, with officials saying dis death may have been caused by auto-erotic asphyxiation and a coroner insisting it was suicide.
Pheu Thai runs on fear
News, Published on 01/09/2012
» Re: ''Stop the flood arguing, solve this dam mess'' (Commentary, Aug 31).