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Chat app firm Kakao plans blockchain unit
Published on 05/03/2018
» SEOUL: Kakao Corp, South Korea's largest messaging app operator, said on Monday it is planning to establish a unit focusing on blockchain technology.
Xi power play in focus as China parliament opens
AFP, Published on 05/03/2018
» BEIJING - China's rubber-stamp parliament on Monday opened a major annual session set to expand President Xi Jinping's considerable power and clear him a path towards lifelong rule.
Turning the tide on crime in Asean
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 05/03/2018
» Ahead of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Thailand Institute of Justice's (TIJ) first High Level Conference on Sustainable Development, Crime Prevention and Safe Societies for Southeast Asia in Bangkok on Monday, UNODC executive director Yury Fedotov gave an exclusive interview to the Bangkok Post about the challenges facing Thailand and the wider region as a whole.
Putin's nuclear-tipped hybrid war
News, Peter Apps, Published on 05/03/2018
» This month marks the fourth anniversary of Russia's March 2014 annexation of Crimea, an event that shocked the world and shook European faith in the post-Cold War security order. In retrospect, it has become clear that, for Russian President Vladimir Putin, annexing the peninsula was not so much an end goal as a declaration of future intent, an early escalation in a broader and more ambitious effort that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko recently termed, with little obvious exaggeration, Russia's "World Hybrid War" on Western democracy itself.
Europe's bruised 'Queen' Merkel lives another day
AFP, Published on 04/03/2018
» BERLIN - Long dubbed the "Queen of Europe", Germany's veteran Chancellor Angela Merkel emerges as the bruised survivor of her deepest crisis to govern for what many expect will be her final term.
Italy votes in uncertain election stalked by populism
AFP, Published on 04/03/2018
» ROME: Italians vote on Sunday in one of the country's most uncertain elections ever, with far-right and populist parties expected to make major gains and Silvio Berlusconi set to play a leading role.
Falcon cuts divisive figure in Venezuela's election
AFP, Published on 04/03/2018
» CARACAS: Henri Falcon, the main opponent to unpopular President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela's presidential election, is in the unusual position of being unloved by both Maduro's ruling socialists and the main opposition alike.
Populists, far-right eye gains in Italian election
AFP, Published on 03/03/2018
» ROME - Italian populist and far-right parties have their eye on making major gains in this weekend's election, spooking investors and European capitals after a campaign dominated by fears about immigration and the economy.
DE: Data-driven services by April
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 03/03/2018
» The government will introduce pilot services related to data analytics, with the output to benefit all Thai people, by next month before making them available nationwide in 2019.
Defiant Trump welcomes 'easy to win' trade war
AFP, Published on 02/03/2018
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Friday welcomed the prospect of a trade war with other nations, remaining defiant in the face of the global uproar sparked by his sudden announcement of steel and aluminum tariffs.