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SME Bank aims for 1m clients in 3 years
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 24/02/2018
» The state-owned Small and Medium Enterprise Development Bank of Thailand (SME Bank) has set an ambitious goal of increasing the number of customers to 1 million within three years.
Bad marketing
News, Postbag, Published on 24/02/2018
» How could all five markets at the Seri Villa housing estate, Prawet, have been operating illegally, with some violating the building code as well? The markets have been operating in plain sight for years, with customers jamming streets with parked cars. BMA governor Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang is to be praised for quickly checking on the Prawet markets and vowing to review all 364 markets in Bangkok.
'105 girls missing' in NE Nigeria after Boko Haram school attack
AFP, Published on 24/02/2018
» KANO (NIGERIA) - More than 100 girls are reported missing after a Boko Haram school attack in northeast Nigeria this week that President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday called a "national disaster".
Trump suggests armed deputy at Florida school was a 'coward'
AFP, Published on 23/02/2018
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Friday cast doubt on the character of an armed deputy who failed to intervene during last week's school shooting in Florida, saying he froze or was a "coward."
Myanmar bulldozes what is left of Rohingya villages
Associated Press, Published on 23/02/2018
» First, their villages were burned to the ground. Now, Myanmar's government is using bulldozers to literally erase them from the earth -- in a vast operation rights groups say is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nation's ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority.
Khon Kaen's Mice plan gets official backing
Business, Suchat Sritama, Published on 23/02/2018
» The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) are set to work on Mice campaigns to boost visitors to Khon Kaen province.
Trump doubles down on call to arm school teachers
AFP, Published on 23/02/2018
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump declared "gun free" schools a "magnet" for mass shooters Thursday, as he doubled down on a deeply controversial proposal to arm teachers in US schools.
EU set to prepare sanctions on Myanmar generals
Reuters, Published on 22/02/2018
» BRUSSELS: The European Union will start preparing sanctions against Myanmar generals over killings of Rohingya Muslims by formally calling on the bloc's foreign policy chief next week to draw up a list of possible names, two diplomats said.
Boko Haram: Profile of a jihadist threat
AFP, Published on 22/02/2018
» LAGOS - Nigeria's Boko Haram, suspected of another mass kidnapping of school girls, started out as an Islamic anti-corruption group but mutated into an IS affiliate waging a lethal insurgency.
'Some' missing Nigerian schoolgirls rescued after Boko Haram attack
AFP, Published on 22/02/2018
» DAMATURU, Nigeria: The families of dozens of girls missing for several days after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria on Thursday faced an anxious wait for their return after confirmation some had been rescued.