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Foreign influencer blasted for loud music on Bangkok MRT
Gary Boyle, Published on 14/05/2025
» A foreign influencer has been criticised after posting a video of himself dragging a loudspeaker and playing music at high volume inside a moving MRT train in Bangkok, prompting fellow passengers to shout at him in protest.
Foreign influencer blasted for loud music on Bangkok MRT
Published on 13/05/2025
» A foreign influencer has come under fire after posting a video of himself dragging a loudspeaker and playing music at high volume inside a moving MRT train in Bangkok, prompting fellow passengers to shout at him in protest.
Stink bug eats into Lebanon's 'white gold' pine nut trade
AFP, Published on 04/06/2021
» QSAYBEH, Lebanon: The scenic region of Mount Lebanon has long produced pine seed, a regional delicacy, but harvests have collapsed amid an exotic insect infestation experts say is accelerated by climate change.
Tracking the plague in DR Congo
AFP, Published on 08/03/2021
» ARU (DR CONGO) - Already battling Covid-19 and a renewed Ebola outbreak, DR Congo is also home to one of the world's oldest sites of the plague -- and there are signs that the disease may have reared its head once more.
Trotting excuses
News, Postbag, Published on 19/10/2018
» Re: "Army chief says no need to intervene if politics stable", (BP, Oct 18).
Donald Trump digs in on immigration, then does about-face
AFP, Published on 21/06/2018
» WASHINGTON - Faced with the disturbing images of migrant children separated from their parents at the US border with Mexico that have shocked America and the world, President Donald Trump did not flinch for a long time.
Trump heads to Congress, defiant on family separations
AFP, Published on 19/06/2018
» WASHINGTON - An intensifying battle over the splitting of immigrant families shifted Tuesday to Congress, where a defiant President Donald Trump will face Republican lawmakers deeply uncomfortable with the mushrooming crisis on America's southern border.
Darjeeling tea harvest hit by unrest
Business, Reuters, Published on 07/07/2017
» MUMBAI/KOLKATA: Ethnic unrest in India's Darjeeling hills has wiped out the harvest of the world's most expensive tea, disrupting supplies to European buyers and potentially pushing prices higher.
Five years on, Japan tsunami scars visible and invisible
AFP, Published on 08/03/2016
» TOMIOKA (JAPAN) - The eye in the sky tells the story: satellite imagery from Japan's tsunami-ravaged Pacific coast shows the catastrophic aftermath of vibrant communities destroyed five years ago -- and their struggle to recover even now.