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'Steel heart of Ukraine' steps in to battle
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/04/2023
» Inside the gloom of the vast Zaporizhstal steel plant, a towering blast furnace wheezes like a giant black lung, inhaling chunks of iron ore, thermal coal and limestone, blending them at temperatures reaching several thousand degrees with oxygen-enriched air, and then exhaling vapour and molten metal.
Track bombing fails to deter Malaysian tourist train
Online Reporters, Published on 08/12/2022
» SONGKHLA: A Malaysian train service to promote tourism in Hat Yai will operate as planned this weekend but with some adjustments, after two bombings on the Thai track compelled workers to delay repairs over safety fears.
WWII bomb forces mass evacuation in central Berlin
AFP, Published on 20/04/2018
» BERLIN - The planned disposal of an unexploded World War II bomb Friday will force a mass evacuation around Berlin's central railway station and likely spark transport chaos in the German capital.
Military overreach
News, Postbag, Published on 01/07/2017
» The Thai military is staffed and equipped for a single purpose -- to repress its own people. General numbers are skewed relative to other ranks, the police and other military forces, suggesting the Thai military is structured and equipped to be a coup maker and government in waiting rather than a defence force.
A year to remember
Asia focus, Published on 26/12/2016
» From the election of "Duterte Harry" in the Philippines to the affair of the "Female Rasputin" that has gripped millions of Koreans, it's been another memorable year in Asia. A few long-running political and security soap operas also continue to play out, most notably the drama in the South China Sea. As well, there is no sign that the tragedy of the Rohingya will end anytime soon. This week, Asia Focus takes a look back at some of the events and personalities that made headlines in 2016.
Eid travel in disarray as SRT closes rail line
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/09/2016
» The State Railway of Thailand has suspended all services to the three southernmost provinces after the deadly bomb attack on a Sungai Kolok-bound train on Saturday, forcing forcing many Muslims going south for the Eid holiday to seek alternative routes.
Save the golden eggs
News, Postbag, Published on 14/06/2016
» We are killing more and more tourists, both on land and at sea (Re: "Tourist safety at stake", BP, June 13).
Thai luck runs out with attack on shrine
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 04/09/2015
» For a country that has done so well for so long in navigating the treacherous waters of international life, Thailand's luck may have run out with the bomb attack on the Erawan shrine in central Bangkok on Aug 17.
Thais can be brutal
News, Postbag, Published on 29/08/2015
» I read with some incredulity the comment by the police general who is heading the investigation into the Aug 17 bombing, that a Thai group was unlikely to have carried out the attack because it was “too brutal for Thais to inflict on their compatriots”.
US scorn for coup gives opening for China
News, Published on 10/03/2015
» Throughout US global wars against communism, drugs and terrorism, Thailand has been an indispensable strategic partner. But a sharp deterioration in ties became evident in January when Thailand's Foreign Ministry summoned the top US diplomat in Bangkok to register its displeasure over the State Department's critical comments about the country's military rule.