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Bank of Thailand to adjust rates amid changes: deputy chief
Reuters, Published on 23/04/2024
» WASHINGTON/BANGKOK: The Bank of Thailand (BoT), under pressure from the government to cut interest rates, could adjust monetary policy if the outlook for the economy changes and structural challenges clearly reduce its long-term potential growth, BoT deputy governor Alisara Mahasandana said.
US now pulled back to refocus on Middle East
News, Peter Apps, Published on 14/10/2023
» Early on Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after Hamas launched the largest assault against Israel in more than 50 years, an unknown object or force wrenched aside and damaged the key undersea gas pipeline and fibre-optic cable linking Finland and Estonia beneath the Baltic Sea.
Sycamore, Franchise Group Submit Bids for Kohl's
Business, Published on 04/06/2022
» Kohl's Corp. received takeover bids from private-equity firm Sycamore Partners and retail holding company Franchise Group Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
Seestadt Aspern on path to smart, renewable future
News, Published on 27/10/2019
» Only a 30-minute subway ride from the central area of Vienna is Seestadt Aspern Smart City, a new town developed a decade ago from an ambitious plan by the Austrian government to create a smart city with a smart energy policy.
Separating fact from fiction
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 01/07/2019
» Last October, Singapore's online news channel Asia One reported a gruesome story from Thailand. It alleged that a vegetarian restaurant in Bangkok served human flesh to diners. The news went viral, and was quickly picked up by various news outlets worldwide, including The Sun and the Daily Mail in the UK, and Newsweek in the US.
Time to come clean
News, Postbag, Published on 15/06/2019
» Re: "Cops scrutinise MP's posts", (BP, June 11).
The way we were
Life, Published on 23/11/2018
» The history of Bangkok is fascinating. But the textbooks in history class or the stories told by our grandparents can only tell us so much. We need to take a closer look if we want an understanding of what life here was really like more than a century ago.
Scandals finally topple South Africa's Zuma
Associated Press, Published on 15/02/2018
» JOHANNESBURG: As scandal after scandal unfolded, South African President Jacob Zuma maintained an affable demeanour in public, rallying his support base, dispatching lawyers to fend off court challenges and, it is alleged, enabling his corrupt associates.
Tip of the iceberg
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 14/01/2018
» Myanmar's government and entirely out-of-touch military soiled themselves again, over the Rohingya issue of course.
How the Catalonia vote threatens the EU
News, John Lloyd, Published on 06/11/2017
» The struggles for and against independence in the Spanish province of Catalonia are emblematic of the European Union's present strength and its future weakness. They also display the weaknesses, present and future, of the two leaders of the contending parties: Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister and Carles Puigdemont, president of Catalonia.