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Thailand car production drops 6.1% in March
Reuters, Published on 29/04/2025
» Car production in Thailand dropped in March for a 20th successive month but at a slower pace as domestic sales improved, but auto exports posted a bigger decline, an industry group said on Tuesday.
Ultra-luxury car sales set to decline this year
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 29/04/2025
» Domestic car sales in the ultra-luxury vehicle segment are expected to fall this year due to a slowdown in the automotive industry and the Thai economy, causing people to delay their purchases, says Inchcape (Thailand), the distributor of British car brands Land Rover and Jaguar.
UK readies to protect industry as US tariffs upend global order: Starmer
AFP, Published on 06/04/2025
» LONDON - The "world as we knew it" is over, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Sunday, as the world braced for further fallout from the introduction of US tariffs.
Private US, Japanese lunar landers launch on single rocket
AFP, Published on 15/01/2025
» KENNEDY SPACE CENTRE — One rocket, two missions: lunar landers built by US and Japanese companies launched their "rideshare" to the Moon on Wednesday, showcasing the private sector's growing role in space exploration.
Royal beneficence in Nong Ung
News, Published on 16/07/2024
» Twenty-four years ago, thousands of local villagers living in the seasonally flooded lower part of tambon Kho Nua in Muang district of Yasothon province learned that their lives would change for the better after His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua, then the Crown Prince, visited them in the year 2000.
In EV catch-up race, legacy automakers hitch a lift with Formula E
Reuters, Published on 23/01/2024
» LONDON - Legacy automakers playing catch-up with electric vehicle (EV) leaders like Tesla are leaning on their Formula E electric racing teams for innovations to build better mass-production EVs with greater range and efficiency, or a lower price tag.
Japan celebrates successful lunar landing
Published on 20/01/2024
» TOKYO - Japan on Saturday became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon, but solar power issues threatened to cut short the mission to prove “precision” landing technology and revitalise a space programme that has suffered setbacks.
Bad to good: What kind of year was 2023 for Asia?
Oped, Published on 28/12/2023
» As 2023 departs, and 2024 -- and soon, the lunar Year of the Dragon -- arrives, we once again highlight the winners and losers of the year gone by in Asia.
New releases for your streaming pleasure: Dec 20-26
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 20/12/2023
» Looking for titles to binge-watch this weekend? Here's our pick!
Long hours won't help India grow
News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 06/11/2023
» Do Indians not work enough? According to one of the co-founders of the Indian software giant Infosys Ltd, we don't. The billionaire Narayana Murthy said last week that young Indians in particular were picking up "undesirable habits" from the lazy West and thereby holding back India's productivity and its growth. "My request," he said, "is that our youngsters must say, 'This is my country, I want to work 70 hours a week.'"