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Storm gusts derail Swiss train, lash Europe
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2018
» ZURICH: Gusting winds blew a train off its tracks, injuring eight people, as winter storm Eleanor (aka Burglind) battered Switzerland on Wednesday, bringing trees down on power lines cutting electricity to thousands of homes.
US East Coast braces for a deep freeze
Associated Press, Published on 05/01/2018
» BOSTON: East Coast residents are bracing for a deep freeze a day after a massive winter storm slammed the region with heavy snow, hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding.
Can Thailand meet the challenges of 2018?
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 06/01/2018
» The military government ended 2017 by saying that this year -- supposedly its last in power -- it will wage war on poverty.
Philanthropy at its finest
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 09/01/2018
» When Thailand was wrecked by months of heavy flooding in 2011, over 13 million people were affected. More than 2,300 households were completely destroyed, almost 100,000 homes partly damaged. The deluge killed around 650 people.
Downpour triggers city chaos
Online reporters and Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 10/01/2018
» A morning downpour submerged several areas in Bangkok on Wednesday, triggering traffic chaos and trapping hundreds of office workers on flooded streets during rush hour.
Capital hit hard by torrential downpour, roads submerged
News, Supoj Wancharoen & Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 11/01/2018
» A torrential downpour struck Bangkok in the early hours yesterday, leaving at least six major roads submerged until nearly midday when the floodwater was at last drained, according to the city's flood control and prevention centre.
The many faces of France
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/01/2018
» At the simplest level Agnes Varda's and JR's Visages Villages is a documentary film about photography and art-making. Going slightly deeper, as the title suggests, it's a film about faces and places, about people and their villages -- rural communities, farmland, factories and towns in the unglamorous corners of France. And yet at its most moving, most humanist moments, this film by an 89-year-old filmmaker and a 33-year-old street artist is about the heartbreaking ephemerality of art, about mortality, memory and the transient nature of everything, above all of life itself.
Cultivating a love of reading in the digital age
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 12/01/2018
» The Neilson Hays Library on Surawong Road has become a much-loved Bangkok institution since its foundation in 1869. It was designed by Italian architect Mario Tamagno and dedicated to the memory of Jennie Neilson Hays. The elegant neoclassical building houses some 20,000 books and magazines across many genres, the largest collection of English-language books in Thailand.
Thai farms warned over coffee trend
News, Asawin Suebsaeng, Published on 14/01/2018
» Despite an increase in coffee consumption and growing interest among southern farmers to convert rubber plantations to grow coffee, competition from neighbouring countries is too fierce, according to a leader of community enterprises.
B150bn splashed out to aid water projects
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 18/01/2018
» The government is allocating more funds this fiscal year to water management, particularly to develop existing royally initiated water projects, in an effort to ensure supply for farmland and generate more income in the sector.