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Historic upshots and heartbreaks mark 2024
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 26/12/2024
» Thailand is a football-crazy country and 2024, which is drawing to a close, had more than its fair share of stories to keep the local fans of the sport engrossed throughout the year.
Brics membership advances
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 25/12/2024
» The cabinet yesterday acknowledged Thailand's successful bid to join the Brics alliance, government spokesman Jirayu Houngsub said.
US repatriates Malaysians linked to 2002 Bali bombing
Published on 18/12/2024
» The US military said on Wednesday that it had repatriated two Malaysian men from its prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who admitted to committing war crimes for an affiliate of al-Qaida that carried out a deadly bombing in Bali in 2002.
Cuba's 'invisible' tragedy: US-bound migrants who disappear in the Caribbean
AFP, Published on 18/12/2024
» CáRDENAS (CUBA) - In the early hours of January 3, 2023, 32 people climbed onto a makeshift raft off southern Cuba and set out across the Caribbean for Florida, 170 kilometers (100 miles) away.
Dutch test awaits Thais in pool stage
Sports, Published on 18/12/2024
» Hosts Thailand were drawn to face the Netherlands in the pool phase of the FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship 2025 at the official ceremony on Tuesday.
Trump's tariff blackmail boosts Brics
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 06/12/2024
» Even before officially taking office, United States President-elect Donald J Trump is shaking up the international system with drama and fanfare unlike any other major leader in recent memory. His most recent outburst to slap 100% tariffs on the "Brics" countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, as well as Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates -- is a case in point. While it will coerce developing economies to think twice about the cost of going their own way, this tariff blackmail and others like it also risk pushing smaller countries away from the US to other rival big powers, particularly China.
Trump taps US Senator Marco Rubio for secretary of state, sources say
Published on 12/11/2024
» Donald Trump selected US Senator Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state, sources said on Monday, putting the Florida-born politician on track to be the first Latino to serve as America's top diplomat once the Republican president-elect takes office in January.
CentralWorld hosts YWCA Diplomatic Charity Bazaar
Life, Published on 07/11/2024
» CentralWorld has been transformed into an international Christmas market featuring premium gifts from around the world for the 69th YWCA Diplomatic Charity Bazaar, which kicks off today and runs until Sunday.
No Brics membership for kingdom yet
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 01/11/2024
» Thailand has not yet been confirmed as a member of the Brics international organisation, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).
Middle Kingdom and 'boomerang effect'
Oped, Kasit Piromya, Published on 25/10/2024
» President Xi Jinping, on the eve of assuming the supreme leadership of China, came forward with the notion that China, the Middle Kingdom, lost its grandeur and supremacy in the middle of the 19th century to Western influence and encroachment, as well as the Japanese and island kingdoms that essentially acted as imperial Western powers inflicting military defeats against the massive but inadequate Chinese forces.