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NLA gets tough on local election regulations
News, Post Reporters, Published on 12/01/2018
» The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) will consider amending six local administrative organisation (LAO) laws and has reaffirmed LAO elections will be held by the middle of this year.
Oldman shines bright in Darkest Hour
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/01/2018
» Jowly, chubby, blustery, cinema-ready, Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill is an exercise in How to Win the Golden Globes and Maybe the Oscar. Which aspiring actor wouldn't want to become Churchill at least once, to act out that avuncular theatricality and grandiose temper, to assume that oratory bombast and majestic eloquence? They say you have to play a madman or a psychopath to get a shot at a best actor prize. Now we should add British prime minister into the list -- just ask Meryl Streep and now Oldman.
B15m of ivory seized en route to China
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/01/2018
» Customs officials have confiscated elephant ivory worth 15 million baht (US$469,200) believed to have been smuggled into Thailand by wildlife traders from Nigeria.
England ponder painful performance
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 13/01/2018
» The final moments of the Ashes series could not have been more symbolic in summing up England's plight in what has been a nightmare tour Down Under. While the victorious Australian team gleefully collected all the awards and sprayed champagne at the Sydney Oval, England's captain Joe Root, suffering from a stomach illness, was asleep in the dressing room.
Banking on the greater good
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 13/01/2018
» William McChesney Martin Jr, who was chairman of the Federal Reserve for 19 years, famously quipped that his job was to take away the punch bowl just when the party got going. Those words have come to embody the work of a central banker, who at times must implement unpopular measures for the sake of the greater good.
Two bodies found on stricken tanker off China
Reuters, Published on 13/01/2018
» SHANGHAI: A Chinese salvage team recovered two bodies on Saturday from a stricken Iranian oil tanker, that was still blazing a week after it caught fire and was left adrift following a collision in the East China Sea, the Xinhua news agency reported.
No penis jokes, please.... I'm on a stiff deadline
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 14/01/2018
» Deadlines can be merciless things.
Subaru XV 2.0i-P (2018) review
Richard Leu, Published on 14/01/2018
» The XV has been redesigned, but so mild is the evolution that buyers new to the brand probably won’t even notice it.
Fighting cancer just half the battle
News, Supara Janchitfah, Published on 15/01/2018
» While picking up a bottle of cancer drugs from her desk, a nurse jokingly mentioned how we had to handle it with utmost care. Each bottle, which lasts 30 days, costs as much as half a car, she said. Almost four years ago, I was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer. This means the disease has already spread to other parts of my body such as my bones, and it is incurable.
Phone chat distracts from corruption fight
News, Mongkol Bangprapa and Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 15/01/2018
» Two weeks ago, the Public Health Ministry had no choice but to pull its announcement banning staff from using state office resources for personal reasons, including charging their personal mobile phones. Such a reverse was understandable. The ministry received a barrage of criticism saying the measures were ''out of touch with reality".