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What's new in business news: August 27, 2013
Jon Fernquest, Published on 27/08/2013
» Protesting rubber farmers stop southern trains, no change in high govt rice price & exports fall but will recover soon.
Pongthep richest cabinet minister
Online Reporters, Published on 27/08/2013
» Deputy Prime Minister Pongthep Thepkanchana is the richest member of the recently reshuffled cabinet, with 3,085 million baht in declared family assets.
India 'can afford' food-for-poor plan as rupee falls
AFP, Published on 27/08/2013
» India's finance minister insisted on Tuesday the government could afford a vast new food programme for the poor, despite growing concern about public finances which drove the rupee to a new lifetime low.
Sex-for-fixing Lebanese referees refuse to testify
AFP, Published on 27/08/2013
» Two Lebanese match officials jailed in Singapore for accepting free sex from an alleged match-fixer have refused to return to the city-state to testify at his trial, a court heard Tuesday.
North Korea urged to grant access to UN
AFP, Published on 27/08/2013
» A UN inquiry gathering harrowing testimony of human rights abuses in North Korea appealed Tuesday for access to the country, even as Pyongyang condemned its work as slanderous and provocative.
Australia opposition's asylum-seeker plan 'crazy'
AFP, Published on 27/08/2013
» A senior Indonesian lawmaker on Tuesday described as "crazy" a plan by the front-runner in Australia's election to pay Indonesians for unseaworthy boats to stem the flow of asylum-seekers.
Singapore candidate says it's Asia's turn at IOC
AFP, Published on 27/08/2013
» Would-be IOC boss Ng Ser Miang said the Olympic body would benefit from having an Asian leader and pledged a new era for the organisation as the race for the presidency enters the home straight.
Nan, Buriram rubber farmers to rally
Online Reporters, Published on 27/08/2013
» Rubber farmer's groups in the northern province of Nan and north eastern province of Buriram on Tuesday confirmed that they intend to join a nationwide rally against low rubber prices on Sept 3.
Pupil overdoses on Tramadol cocktail
Published on 27/08/2013
» A student passed out after taking a painkiller and cola cocktail at a school in Samut Prakan province, after he was told that combining the two creates a similar effect to taking drugs.
West edges closer to Syria strikes
AFP, Published on 27/08/2013
» The US and its allies Tuesday edged closer to launching strikes against Syria, accused of deadly chemical weapons attacks that UN arms experts are investigating for a second day.