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Thai tycoon's Frasers seeks to take REIT private for $1 billion
Bloomberg News, Published on 14/05/2025
» SINGAPORE — Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi's Frasers Property Limited is seeking to take a real estate investment trust (REIT) private at a valuation of S$1.37 billion (US$1.1 billion), its second attempt to buy out the unit.
Trump heads to the Gulf eyeing deals amid diplomatic offensive
AFP, Published on 13/05/2025
» RIYADH - Donald Trump will arrive in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday on the first leg of a Gulf tour that will also take him to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, eyeing business deals even as accords on the Middle East's hotspots will likely be harder to reach.
Cannes 2025: What's on our watch list
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/05/2025
» The 78th edition of Europe's biggest film festival starts today. We take a look at some notable titles across different sections -- Competition, Un Certain Regard, Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week -- including a Thai film.
End citizenship delay now
Editorial, Published on 11/05/2025
» They were granted Thai nationality decades ago. Yet for nearly 40 years, they have lived as second-class citizens -- invisible, powerless, and stripped of basic rights -- all because of government red tape.
Second plane falls off US aircraft carrier in 10 days
AFP, Published on 07/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - A US warplane plummeted into the Red Sea when trying to land on the aircraft carrier Harry S Truman, a defence official said on Wednesday. It was the second jet lost from the ship in just over a week.
‘Asian crisis in reverse’ as currencies soar against dollar
Published on 06/05/2025
» SINGAPORE - A wave of dollar selling in Asia is an ominous sign for the greenback as the world’s export powerhouse starts to question a decades-long trend of investing its big trade surpluses in US assets.
Asian currencies surge on weaker dollar, oil falls
Published on 05/05/2025
» Asian currencies advanced amid broad weakness in the dollar and US assets as investors awaited further progress on trade deals. Crude oil slumped 3.6% after OPEC+ agreed to a further surge in output.
Liberals ride Trump backlash to victory in Canada
Published on 29/04/2025
» OTTAWA - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals staged a major political comeback to retain power in parliamentary elections, fuelled by a backlash against US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and comments about making Canada the 51st US state.
Tree planting ‘decades overdue’ in sweltering Athens
AFP, Published on 22/04/2025
» ATHENS - On a cloudy spring morning in one of Athens’ most densely inhabited districts, thousands of fresh saplings dotting a small hilltop park mark a fledgling effort to tackle crippling heat that critics say is long overdue.
Trump hosts 'coolest dictator' Bukele in migrant crackdown talks
AFP, Published on 14/04/2025
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Monday hosted El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, the self-described "world's coolest dictator" who is now the US leader's key ally in a controversial push to deport illegal migrants to a notorious Salvadoran prison.