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ILO finds progress in fixing Thai fishing industry abuses
Associated Press, Published on 07/03/2018
» A survey of working conditions in Thailand's fishing and seafood industry conducted by the UN's International Labour Organisation has found that new regulations resulted in progress in some areas, including less physical violence, but problems such as unfair pay and deception in contracting persist.
'Senator Tammy' still breaking barriers
Associated Press, Published on 19/02/2018
» WASHINGTON: Breaking down barriers is nothing new for Senator Tammy Duckworth, and that's the way she likes it.
Nepal's communist party leader named next prime minister
Associated Press, Published on 15/02/2018
» KATHMANDU, Nepal: The leader of Nepal's communist party was named the Himalayan nation's new prime minister Thursday, a day after the results of parliamentary elections were finalised.
Trump calls for unity; warns about North Korea
Associated Press, Published on 01/02/2018
» WASHINGTON: - Addressing a deeply divided nation, President Donald Trump summoned the country to a "new American moment" of unity in his first State of the Union, challenging Congress to make good on long-standing promises to fix a fractured immigration system and warning darkly of evil forces seeking to undermine America's way of life.
PM tells media to question cardboard dummy
Associated Press, Published on 09/01/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha evaded journalists' questions on Monday in a unique way, bringing out a life-sized cardboard cutout of himself and telling the reporters to quiz it instead of him.
New book leaves Trump furious, 'disgusted' with Bannon
Associated Press, Published on 05/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on former top adviser Steve Bannon, responding to a new book that portrays Trump as an undisciplined man-child who didn't actually want to win the White House and quotes Bannon as calling his son's contact with a Russian lawyer "treasonous."
'Trump country' faith unshaken
Associated Press, Published on 28/12/2017
» SANDY HOOK, Kentucky: The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute.
Dictionary.com chooses 'complicit' as word of the year
Associated Press, Published on 27/11/2017
» NEW YORK: Russian election influence, the ever-widening sexual harassment scandal, mass shootings and the opioid epidemic helped elevate the word "complicit" as Dictionary.com's word of the year for 2017.
From Scotland to Thailand, everyone's watching Catalonia
Associated Press, Published on 12/10/2017
» LONDON: - When Catalans voted for independence 10 days ago, Scottish independence activist Math Campbell-Sturgess travelled to Spain to observe the voting process, which was marred by thuggish attacks by police trying to shut down the disputed referendum.
As girlfriend returns to US, Vegas gunman's profile emerges
Associated Press, Published on 04/10/2017
» LAS VEGAS: The Las Vegas gunman's girlfriend, back in the United States after a weeks-long trip abroad, will be at the centre of the investigation into the shooting deaths of 59 people as authorities try to determine why a man with no known record of violence or crime would open fire on a concert crowd from a high-rise hotel.