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Drones, boats and megabaht: Laos route spews meth into Thailand
AFP, Published on 11/06/2019
» NAKHON PHANOM: As dusk falls along the Mekong River, a nightly dance begins between Thai border security and Laos drug gangs now using drones, scouts and a pool of poor fishermen to shift record amounts of meth into Thailand.
Investigators drop probes on Rolls-Royce
AFP, Published on 23/02/2019
» LONDON: Britain's Serious Fraud Office on Friday dropped major investigations into engineering firm Rolls-Royce and pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in a move condemned by anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International.
'No survivors likely' in Lion Air crash
AFP, Published on 30/10/2018
» JAKARTA: All 189 passengers and crew aboard a crashed Indonesian Lion Air jet were likely killed in the accident, rescue officials said Monday, as they announced they had found human remains and would continue the grim search through the night.
Korean Air plane evacuated, engines catch fire at Tokyo airport
AFP, Published on 27/05/2016
» TOKYO - About 300 passengers and crew were evacuated from a Korean Air Boeing 777 at Tokyo's Haneda airport in dramatic scenes after one of the engines caught fire, officials said Friday.
Feathers fly over lucrative cockfighting pits
AFP, Published on 01/11/2015
» The cry of roosters drowns out the roar of engines beneath a Bangkok flyover as all eyes are trained on two sparring birds, a bloody, high stakes battle in a country where cockfighting is big business.
Brazil builds climate tower in pristine Amazon jungle
AFP, Published on 26/08/2015
» SAO SEBASTIAO DO UATUMA (BRAZIL) - Deep in the pristine Amazon jungle, Brazil's newest skyscraper has a mission unlike any other: to save the world.
Airbus admits 'assembly quality problem'
AFP, Published on 29/05/2015
» BERLIN - Analysis of the flight recorders of the A400M which crashed in Spain on May 9, killing four, indicated there were no structural faults but assembly quality problems, a senior Airbus executive said in a newspaper interview to appear on Friday.
AirAsia confirms 55 A330Neos order
AFP, Published on 15/12/2014
» Malaysian low-cost carrier AirAsia X confirmed Monday its order of 55 long-haul A330Neo passenger planes from Airbus at a list price of $15 billion, in what is the biggest single order for the line of aircraft.