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China rescuers drill new 'lifelines' to trapped gold miners
AFP, Published on 19/01/2021
» BEIJING: Chinese rescuers drilled several fresh holes Tuesday to reach at least 12 gold miners trapped underground for nine days, as dwindling food supplies and rising waters threatened their survival.
Indonesian divers hunt for crashed plane's black boxes
AFP, Published on 12/01/2021
» JAKARTA - Indonesian divers returned Tuesday to a wreckage-littered seabed off Jakarta in their hunt for the black boxes that will likely be key to unlocking the mystery of why a passenger jet carrying 62 people fell from the sky.
Indonesian divers hunt for crashed plane's black boxes
AFP, Published on 12/01/2021
» Indonesian divers returned Tuesday to a wreckage-littered seabed off Jakarta in their hunt for the black boxes that will likely be key to unlocking the mystery of why a passenger jet carrying 62 people fell from the sky.
Divers search Indonesian plane wreckage for black boxes
AFP, Published on 11/01/2021
» JAKARTA: Indonesian divers searched waters off Jakarta Monday in a hunt for black boxes from the passenger jet with 62 people aboard that crashed at the weekend, as investigators took up the grim task of identifying victims' mangled remains.
It could be fun, in a strange sort of way
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 10/01/2021
» A number of readers -- well, three -- have asked why last week's column did not contain the usual predictions for the coming year. My feeling at the time was that with the dark cloud of Covid-19 hovering over us it seemed a bit inappropriate to carry the usual frivolous PostScript predictions. However, I have had a change of heart and considering we are only 10 days into the New Year it is not too late to make silly forecasts.
Immigration games
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/12/2020
» I, like nearly 90% of all foreigners living here in Thailand, am getting tired of going to immigration for our yearly visa renewal, only to find out that we did not follow the "rules of the day". We want immigration to state a clear policy of what is, or is not, required to renew our visas. To that end, we ask:
Rohingya trafficking network sells dreams, delivers violence and extortion
AFP, Published on 15/12/2020
» COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world's biggest refugee camp, their drivers among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network involving high-seas extortion gangs, corrupt police and drug lords.
Protests rile taxi driver, big bike scrape, fatal teen spill
News, Mae Moo, Published on 29/11/2020
» No-talkies upsets jailbird
Production Problems Spur Broad FAA Review of Boeing Dreamliner Lapses
Business, Published on 09/09/2020
» Production problems at a Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner factory have prompted air-safety regulators to review quality-control lapses potentially stretching back almost a decade, according to an internal government memo and people familiar with the matter.
8 days on, search continues for 2 men missing from Samui ferry
Published on 09/08/2020
» KOH SAMUI: Rescuers are using every means, including combing beaches, to search for two missing men eight days after the ferry they were on capsized off this resort island.