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High-tech Japanese toilets to be more foreigner friendly
Published on 19/01/2017
» TOKYO - As more foreigners choose Japan as a holiday destination, the country's toilet manufacturers have joined forces to simplify the sometimes complicated business of washing and drying Japanese style.
Learning the Singapore way
Kyodo News, Published on 19/01/2017
» SINGAPORE - Singapore's climb to the top of global education rankings has put the spotlight on how an education system that had been seen as somewhat too competitive, stressful and exam-oriented has evolved into one of the best in the world.
Myanmar urged to end persecution of Rohingya
Published on 19/01/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia on Thursday pushed the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the world's largest Muslim intergovernmental organisation, to pile pressure on Myanmar to end the persecution and killing of ethnic Muslim Rohingyas in the country.
Merkel to try for 4th term at election Sept 24
Reuters, Published on 19/01/2017
» BERLIN - Germany looks set to hold its federal election on Sunday 24 September, with Chancellor Angela Merkel seeking a fourth term in office and the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party expected to enter the national parliament for the first time.
Trump 'troubled' by Manning commutation
Published on 19/01/2017
» WASHINGTON - The incoming Trump administration criticised President Barack Obama's commutation of the 35-year prison sentence for Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst convicted of leaking classified material.
Anwar gets new pardon hearing in Malaysia
Reuters, Published on 19/01/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim scored a minor legal victory on Wednesday, as a court ruled that he can proceed with his bid to challenge the rejection of his petition for a royal pardon.
China's Xi to build new relations with US
Reuters, Published on 19/01/2017
» GENEVA - China will build a new model of relations with the United States as part of its creation of a "circle of friends" around the world, President Xi Jinping said in a speech at the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday.
Cops nab Czech accused of spreading HIV
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/01/2017
» Phuket police have located and detained a Czech national suspected of spreading HIV to his sexual partners after escaping to Thailand in 2015 from the Czech Republic where is wanted for sexually abusing a minor.
Ex-THAI staff snared in bribe row
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/01/2017
» The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and Thai Airways International (THAI) Plc have pledged to examine the case in which British engineering giant Rolls-Royce admitted to bribing agents of the Thai state and employees of THAI to win business.
Busanan, Nichaon slated to meet in final
Sports, Kittipong Thongsombat, Published on 19/01/2017
» Local players could make a clean sweep at next month's Princess Sirivannavari Thailand Masters, judging from the seedings.