Showing 1 - 10 of 9,702
Australia to permit medicinal cannabis exports in growing market
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2018
» SYDNEY: Australia said Thursday it planned to become the fourth country in the world to legalise medicinal marijuana exports in a bid to score a piece of the estimated $55 billion (1.8 trillion baht) global market.
Myanmar president calls for reform of military-drafted constitution
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2018
» YANGON: Myanmar's civilian president called in an Independence Day speech on Thursday for reform of a military-drafted constitution and for justice for all recognised minorities under a federal system, but made no mention of the treatment of its Rohingya Muslim people.
PM coy on political future, cultivates media
Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 05/01/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha says he is non-committal on whether he will return as an non-elected outsider prime minister after the general election.
A year of living dangerously in Thailand
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 05/01/2018
» They were supposed to be in power for the royal transition but they have stayed too long and now want to win an unavoidable election.
Big 2 parties slam talk of outsider PM
News, Published on 06/01/2018
» Pheu Thai heavyweight Chaturon Chaisang has lashed out on Twitter at Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha over his remarks about the possibility of an unelected premier taking the reins after this year's planned election.
Elite Iran Guards claim defeat of 'foreign enemies' protests
Reuters, Published on 08/01/2018
» DUBAI: Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday the country's "people and security forces" had put an end to unrest fomented by foreign enemies.
Democracy is key for uniting disparate Europe
News, John Lloyd, Published on 08/01/2018
» The European political year, grinding back into gear for 2018, is full of doubt, even woe. In the continent's major countries politics are stuck, or likely to stick, in cul-de-sacs from which exit is difficult. Only in France, under the banner not so much of the tricolour as the injunction En Marche! (Let's Go!), is there official optimism and vigour.
PM says he's a politician − no surprise there
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/01/2018
» Finally, last week, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha halfheartedly admitted, for the first time since he took over the government's administration more than three years ago, that he is a politician, but not without reminding all of us that he is not just any politician -- but a politician who used to be a soldier.
Worldwide calls for release of jailed Myanmar reporters
Reuters, Published on 08/01/2018
» Several countries, including the United States, many European nations and Canada, and top United Nations officials are among those demanding the release of Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from detention in Myanmar.
May reshuffle to help UK face Brexit
Reuters, Published on 09/01/2018
» LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May named a new head of the ruling Conservatives on Monday in a reshuffle aimed at handing her government a new start after months of divisions over Brexit, scandals and an ill-judged election.