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Stretching credibility
News, Postbag, Published on 03/01/2018
» I am afraid to say that Burin Kantabutra is stretching credibility a bit by suggesting that honesty and respect for the law are traditional Thai values.
Suspected cop killer among 5 men nabbed
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 06/01/2018
» Pattani: Five suspects have been arrested in connection with six shootings of police and civilians over the last eight years, mostly carried out in the central district of this restive southern province.
Breathing uneasy: smog spurs health problems in New Delhi
Spectrum, Published on 07/01/2018
» When air quality levels in New Delhi rose over 40 times above the World Health Organisation's (WHO) safe limit, Rai, former president of the Indian Tour Agents Association, suffered a major asthma attack.
Truck loaded with rice straw catches fire
Published on 07/01/2018
» RATCHABURI: A truck was damaged after blocks of rice straw it was carrying caught fire in Pak Tho district, police said. No-one was hurt.
Iranian tanker collides with Chinese ship, 32 missing
Reuters, Published on 07/01/2018
» BEIJING: A tanker carrying Iranian oil and run by the country’s top oil shipping operator was ablaze and spewing its cargo into the East China Sea on Sunday after colliding with a Chinese bulk ship, the Chinese government said.
Iranian tanker collision off China spills oil, 32 missing
Associated Press, Published on 07/01/2018
» BEIJING: An Iranian oil tanker collided with a bulk freighter and caught fire off China's east coast, leaving the tanker's entire crew of 32 missing and causing it to spill oil into the sea, authorities said Sunday.
Myanmar confident of economic take-off this year
Asia focus, Larry Jagan, Published on 08/01/2018
» After nearly two years in power, Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and her government face a crucial year ahead. Apart from significant political problems -- resolving the troubles in violence-torn Rakhine state and reviving the stalled peace process -- the government needs to show dramatically improved performance on the economic front.
Oil tanker burning off China's coast at risk of exploding
Associated Press, Published on 08/01/2018
» BEIJING: An Iranian oil tanker that caught fire after colliding with a freighter off China's east coast is at risk of exploding and sinking, Chinese state media reported Monday as authorities from three countries struggled to find its 32 missing crew members and contain oil spewing from the blazing wreck.
Iranian oil tanker burns for third day as winds, waves lash rescuers
Associated Press, Published on 09/01/2018
» BEIJING: Lashing winds, high waves and toxic gases are hindering dozens of rescue boats struggling to locate missing sailors from a stricken oil tanker in the East China Sea and to extinguish a fire that has burned for the past three days on the ship.
Educating Rohingya refugee kids
News, Kevin Watkins, Published on 11/01/2018
» Amina is a case study in the power of hope. Three months ago, armed vigilantes attacked the six-year-old's village in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Amina saw neighbours killed, an uncle wounded by gunfire, and her home razed.