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Globe Tech app delineates sacred sites
Business, Published on 08/01/2018
» Globe Tech Co, the maker of the digital navigation app Nostra, will commemorate the new year and the late King with a special map marking sacred places in Bangkok.
Trump as 'Mob' boss, 'forest fire': excerpts from Comey book
AFP, Published on 14/04/2018
» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - Former FBI director James Comey's memoir, "A Higher Loyalty," is to be released next week.
Italy ramps up search for Mafia godfather after dawn busts
AFP, Published on 19/04/2018
» ROME - Italian police arrested the closest aides of Cosa Nostra kingpin Matteo Messina Denaro on Thursday, clamping down on a tightknit, family-run clan which has kept the mobster safely hidden over a quarter of a century on the run.
Europe's largest wooden building awaits salvation off Istanbul
AFP, Published on 28/05/2018
» ISTANBUL - Looking up at the giant wooden edifice looming over him, Erol Baytas shakes his head.
Bangin' brunches
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 31/08/2018
» The Urban Dictionary defines brunch as "A contraction of breakfast and lunch, usually occurring around the hour of 11am. Typically reserved for snobs." Well, if you're not a morning person, like to combine breakfast with lunch and are a snob (we are not judging), then brunch is for you. I do love a good brunch (hey, don't judge me either!) and so I ate my way through a few to bring you the ones that go around the world, while never having to leave the 'Kok!
In Sicily, pope slams 'blasphemous' mafia
AFP, Published on 15/09/2018
» PALERMO (ITALY) - Pope Francis denounced the mafia's "blasphemous" existence on Saturday during a visit to Sicily to honour a priest murdered by the mob 25 years ago while trying to save youngsters in poor neighbourhoods from falling into their hands.
Annual cancer fundraiser offers culinary creativity
Life, Published on 21/09/2018
» The Peninsula Bangkok is once again to present a one-of-a-kind culinary showcase dubbed Eat Drink Pink on Oct 1 to support underprivileged breast cancer patients.
Bulgaria urged to save communist-era architectural 'masterpiece'
AFP, Published on 16/10/2018
» BUZLUDZHA PEAK (BULGARIA) - Perched like a vast flying saucer on a central Bulgarian mountainside, Buzludzha is a brutalist concrete monument that was built to glorify communism nearly 40 years ago.
Italian 'mafia cancer' spreading throughout Europe
AFP, Published on 11/04/2019
» ROME: International anti-mafia stings may have increased in recent months, but Italian organised crime groups constitute a social and economic "cancer" that the world seems to underestimate, experts say.
Globetech employs GPS to cash in on data
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 18/06/2019
» Globetech Co, a GPS mapping and location services firm, is looking to expand into data tracking of customer movements to more accurately calculate health and auto insurance rates.