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Trump's Fed pick vows to safeguard independence
AFP, Published on 21/04/2026
» WASHINGTON - Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump’s choice to lead the US Federal Reserve, vowed on Tuesday to protect central bank independence at his confirmation hearing, despite intense pressure from the president.
Downing Street ‘exerted pressure to OK Mandelson’
AFP, Published on 21/04/2026
» LONDON - Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office applied constant pressure on civil servants to approve the appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington and seemed to brush off security concerns, a sacked official told MPs on Tuesday.
Thai job broker accused of smuggling 'little ghosts' into S.Korea
Online Reporters, Published on 21/04/2026
» A Thai woman and a Korean chicken farmer face charges of smuggling illegal Thai workers, known as "little ghosts", into South Korea.
People's Party plans May Day rally
News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/04/2026
» The People's Party (PP) has called on the public to mobilise at parliament on May 1, coinciding with National Labour Day, to submit its draft Social Security Bill and launch a campaign to "reclaim social security" for all citizens.
UK PM denies misleading MPs, says officials hid Mandelson info
AFP, Published on 21/04/2026
» LONDON - Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday denied misleading parliament over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK envoy to Washington, and accused officials of deliberately hiding information that the Labour politician had been denied security clearance.
AI hits academia
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/04/2026
» Re: "Universities face age shift", (Editorial, April 18).
Breathing in the dark
Life, Published on 21/04/2026
» Sangyond Loongta, 12, has never heard of PM2.5. Neither has her 14-year-old sister Kamong, nor their two-year-old sister Mauypong. The three girls arrived in Thailand about a year ago with their parents, who pick oranges in the orchards of Fang district in northern Chiang Mai. For much of that year, the children lived deep inside the orchard, helping raise their youngest sibling but not going to school.
Issa Compass: The startup that wants to open Bangkok to the world
Published on 20/04/2026
» Bangkok has always had a hold on people. You arrive for a few weeks and find yourself renegotiating your return flight. The food, the energy, the cost of living that actually makes sense. It adds up to something that's hard to name and harder to leave.
Opening Hormuz is the easy part, restoring oil flow is not
Published on 20/04/2026
» LONDON - The stop-start shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz underscores the profound uncertainty hanging over the world’s most critical oil and gas chokepoint. But one thing is already clear: even if the guns fall silent, flows through the narrow waterway will take months – and possibly years – to recover to pre-war levels.
Who's Bad? Not Michael Jackson in new big-budget biopic
AFP, Published on 20/04/2026
» PARIS - A new Michael Jackson biopic will shortly arrive in cinemas telling the story of the King of Pop's early career, but it's a tightly controlled story that avoids any reference to the child sex abuse allegations that dogged his later life.