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Hopes dim for survivors of capsized China cruise ship
Associated Press, Published on 03/06/2015
» JIANLI, CHINA — Hopes dimmed Wednesday for rescuing more than 400 people still trapped in a capsized river cruise ship that overturned in stormy weather, as hundreds of rescuers searched the Yangtze River site in what could become the deadliest Chinese maritime accident in decades.
Thailand hopeful about Rohingya meeting
Online Reporters, Published on 15/05/2015
» The host Thailand has pinned hopes on a regional meeting to come up with measures to end the influx of Rohingya and Bangladeshi boat people, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Friday.
Xayaburi dam risks killing the Mekong
News, Published on 26/11/2014
» The recent talkfest at the 25th Asean summit concluded with numerous lofty declarations. The Nay Pyi Taw Declaration on the Asean Community's Post-2015 Vision contains guidelines for the drafters of the 2016-2025 vision, one of which is to promote Asean as a "rules-based community bound by shared principles, values and norms".
Over the borderline
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 25/09/2014
» A temporary tent was set up at one corner of the Three Pagodas Pass, the border checkpoint in Sangkhla Buri district of Kanchanaburi, while a signboard displayed a tour service with pictures of attractions for Payathonsu town, in Kayin State of Myanmar.
Reaping infrastructure’s benefits
News, Published on 13/06/2014
» ‘Infrastructure, by the nature of the word,” former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said in February 2013, “is basic to the functioning of societies”. And yet infrastructure has arguably been the forgotten economic issue of the twenty-first century. Indeed, failure to make the right infrastructure investments has impaired many countries’ potential to boost economic growth and employment.
Distraught relatives protest over Bangladesh ferry tragedy
AFP, Published on 17/05/2014
» Anguished relatives protested a decision Saturday to stop searching for bodies of passengers they feared were trapped inside a ferry that sunk in central Bangladesh leaving at least 54 dead, police said.
Conergy deal will power up solar plant expansion
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 31/08/2013
» Germany's Conergy AG, a leader in Thailand's solar energy industry, has been acquired by Kawa Capital Management Inc in the US.
Boats fill the Thames for queen's river pageant
AFP, Published on 04/06/2012
» Hundreds of rowing boats, barges and steamers filled the River Thames with a blaze of colour on Sunday as Queen Elizabeth II sailed through London as part of her spectacular diamond jubilee pageant.
Development drive sees ethnic groups displaced by land grabs
Spectrum, Phil Thornton, Published on 22/04/2012
» At the ramshackle Ei Tu Hta camp more than 4,000 displaced people fear not just the the Myanmar military downstream on the Salween River, but also a constitution that will ''legally'' dispossess them of the land they were forced to flee.