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Asian markets rise as China and US agree to avert trade war
AFP, Published on 21/05/2018
» HONG KONG: Asian markets rallied Monday and the dollar extended gains after the US and China said they had agreed to hold off imposing tariffs, averting a potentially damaging trade war.
Foreign media head to N. Korea to see nuclear site destruction
AFP, Published on 22/05/2018
» BEIJING: Foreign journalists headed to North Korea on Tuesday to watch the promised destruction of its nuclear test site, a move seen as a goodwill gesture before a planned summit with the United States.
N. Korea preps nuclear site demolition despite US summit doubts
AFP, Published on 23/05/2018
» SEOUL - Invited foreign journalists gathered in North Korea Wednesday to witness the slated destruction of the reclusive regime's nuclear test site, a high profile gesture on the road to a summit with the US that Donald Trump now says might not happen.
Man caught on video stealing B200,000 valuables
Published on 25/05/2018
» KHON KAEN: A car driver was caught on video breaking into a shop in Muang district and making off with cash, mobile phones, notebook computers and other items, worth over 200,000 baht.
Euro losses build in Asia as Italy plunges into political crisis
AFP, Published on 29/05/2018
» HONG KONG - The euro extended losses in Asian trade Tuesday as political uncertainty in Italy stoked fresh fears about the eurozone.
Targeted cancer treatments far outperform traditional methods
AFP, Published on 02/06/2018
» MIAMI - Cancer treatments that attack tumors based on their individual genetic traits -- not their location in the body -- far outperform traditional methods, extending survival for twice as many patients, a study said Saturday.
From inside North Korea, clues about Kim's agenda
News, Katharine HS Moon, Published on 07/06/2018
» It's been a roller coaster ride for anyone following plans for a June 12 summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. The actors were contradictory, the stage sets numerous and the messages chaotic. Within days of Mr Trump's May 24 cancellation of the Singapore meeting -- and then the withdrawal of his withdrawal -- President Moon Jae-in of South Korea met with the US president in Washington with the North Korean leader on the northern side of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) to help keep the summit alive. Meanwhile, US officials flew to the DMZ and Singapore and a top North Korean official came to New York to plan (again) for the encounter.
All in the family
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 14/06/2018
» You know you're walking into a horror movie, but the brilliance of Ari Aster's Hereditary is the way it deftly hides its cards and stacks up mystery upon mystery, secret upon secret, madness upon madness, until everything unravels in demonic hellfire. The film ticks all the familiar elements of a ghost story -- a dead grandma, a spooky house, a grave robbery, a candlelit seance where spirits are summoned, a sleepwalker roaming the dim corridor, an occult sign written on the wall, a couple of headless corpses, etc -- but Hereditary rises above the genre formula with its coolly composed formalism, its deliberate pacing, and its sly psychological manipulation that almost convinces us at certain points that this is more of a domestic drama than a horror movie.
Sydney cops find dead Thai man's car
News, Bangkok Post, Published on 22/06/2018
» SYDNEY: Australian police have found the car driven by a Thai national whose battered body was discovered bound and gagged on the side of a Sydney road.
Police discover Puttipat's 'suicide note'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/07/2018
» Police have found a suicide note believed to have been left by former permanent secretary for social development and human security, Puttipat Lertchaowasit, a source says.