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Dream state
Asia focus, Ben Bland, Published on 28/09/2020
» When Indonesian President Joko Widodo decided last year to pursue outlandish plans to build a new capital city in far-flung Kalimantan, advisers shook their heads in despair. But they were not surprised.
A state of repose
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 09/02/2026
» This is the season to be in Japan, where the air is fresh and the weather is cold, unlike in Thailand.
Plan to transfer state-run airports to Airports of Thailand scrapped
Online Reporters, Published on 07/03/2025
» The Ministry of Transport has made a U-turn on an earlier decision to hand over all state-run airports across the country to the Airports of Thailand Plc.
Train drama offers lesson
News, Editorial, Published on 13/09/2021
» The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) has decided to pay 42.5 million baht for shipping 17 diesel locomotive trains, donated by Japanese Hokkaido Railway Co (JR Hokkaido), to Thailand.
Pakistan's army a state above a state
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/07/2018
» 'Look, we have no other choice," Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said last May. "These games have gone on too long. Something has to change." Then he left to be with his wife Kulsoom, who is on life support while receiving treatment for cancer in England. But last week he and his daughter Maryam returned to Pakistan to begin serving the jail sentences imposed on them by a Pakistani court.
High-speed rail seeking B300bn extra
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 14/12/2022
» The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) plans to invest another 300 billion baht for the second phase of the Thai-Chinese high-speed railway project.
High-speed rail needs B300bn more
Gary Boyle, Published on 14/12/2022
» The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) plans to invest another 300 billion baht for the second phase of the Thai-Chinese high-speed railway project.
Nine arrests over B2.8bn Railway Club Cooperative embezzlement
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 27/11/2020
» The former chief executive of the Railway Club Cooperative and eight committee members have been arrested for alleged collusion in the embezzlement of 2.8 billion baht of members' funds.
Railway cop charged with killing two drinking friends
Yuttapong Kumnodnae, Published on 08/02/2018
» UDON THANI: A senior railway police officer charged with murdering two police drinking buddies has told investigators their demeaning insults drove him to shoot them dead.
‘Death Railway’ tag debated for World Heritage application
Published on 15/08/2018
» KANCHANABURI: As Thailand pushes for a notorious railway built by the Japanese military during World War II to become a Unesco World Cultural Heritage site, local people are debating whether the track's widely known name "Death Railway" should be used in the campaign.