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Free behind bars
Asia focus, Nikhil Kumar, Published on 13/07/2020
» Business has been booming for Karulal Nagar. A manufacturer of drawstrings used in kurtis (short shirts that women wear in India), he's been earning a profit of 3,000 rupees (US$40) a day, far more than the 6,000 rupees a month that he earned in the not-so-distant past.
Asian markets rise on fresh vaccine hopes
AFP, Published on 13/07/2020
» Asian markets rose Monday, recovering some of the losses at the end of last week, as investors followed a strong performance on Wall Street fuelled by hopes for a coronavirus vaccine, though a spike in infections around the world capped gains.
Latin America virus deaths pass US as Spain lockdown blocked
AFP, Published on 13/07/2020
» LERIDA (SPAIN) - Latin America surged past the US and Canada to become the world's second worst-hit region for virus deaths on Monday as a Spanish court blocked a move to lock down some 200,000 people.
Suppression in Myanmar drives 'ice' into Thailand
King-oua Laohong, Published on 13/07/2020
» Mountains of crystal methamphetamine or "ice" have been seized this year as a result of heavy suppression in Myanmar, causing an influx of the drug into Thailand, Office of Narcotic Control Board (ONCB) secretary-general Niyom Termsrisuk said on Monday.
Andy Hall hit with B300m civil suit
News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/07/2020
» Nakhon Pathom Civil Court on Monday accepted a 300-million-baht civil defamation prosecution brought by a pineapple company against a human rights defender.
Why China Isn't Expected to Power a Global Recovery
Business, Eun-Young Jeong & Tom Fairless, Published on 14/07/2020
» Getting the global economy back on its feet this year won't be easy. But it will be even tougher without more help from China, the locomotive that powered recoveries from the world's latest economic emergency.
Durian for the heart in far South
News, Supapohn Kanwerayotin, Published on 14/07/2020
» 'From Bannang Sata Yala," along with PromptPay details for contactless payment, read the sign at the back of a pickup truck parked across the street from the mosque next to Thong Lor Metropolitan Police Station. This is a find on my neighbourhood roaming day. Because at this time of year I would usually have set myself up in Pattani as a launchpad for the annual durian eating season in three southern border provinces. In my pre-corona blueprint, the imagined highlight would be an-all durian day along multiple stalls lining the roadside of Ton Sai, a spot in Narathiwat where a work trip in July 2019 placed me in the divine durian abode. A large fruit picked, weighed and cut open by a lady vendor produced the prettiest plump golden mounds -- the most delicious durian I have ever wrapped my taste buds around. Amid oohs and aahs from Thai colleagues who had actually just finished another fruit before our arrival, plus the expression on my face while relishing that mouthful, must have boosted the courage in a foreign expert I was interpreting for to brave an encounter. Still, that pile of terrifying spiky fruit apparently overwhelmed his other colleagues who opted out. A globetrotting development expert, he nodded his approval as he finished his piece with no trace of aversion.
Thai-US alliance comes with new twists
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 14/07/2020
» Before General James C McConville, the Chief of Staff of the US army, was able to sign the Joint Vision Statement 2020 for the Thai-US Defence Alliance last Friday, he had to go through the stringent Covid-19 measures required under Thai law for foreign visitors.
A cure for policing ills
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 14/07/2020
» When footage of George Floyd's arrest first surfaced on the internet, many around the world, including Pol Lt Col Krisanaphong Poothakool and Pol Lt Col Peabprom Mekhiyanont, watched in horror as Derek Chauvin, a 19-year police veteran, attempted to arrest the man on suspicion of using counterfeit notes by pinning him to the ground and kneeling on the back of his neck despite Floyd's pleas that he could not breathe.
US turns focus to South China Sea
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 14/07/2020
» Last week, US army chief of staff Gen James McConville visited Thailand to strengthen the 65-year-old military alliance, culminating in the signing of the Strategic Vision Statement. Early this month, China held a five-day naval drill near the contested Paracel Islands. Then the US carried out military exercises in the waterway showing support for the free and open Indo-Pacific, as the South China Sea has been subject to overlapping claims by many countries, including China.