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Airbnb’s Great Wall of China competition crumbles
Published on 08/08/2018
» Airbnb has been forced to cancel a promotion that offered competition winners the chance to spend a night on Great Wall of China after an official heritage body said it had not approved the plan.
Tesla board says it will evaluate Musk proposal to go private
AFP, Published on 08/08/2018
» NEW YORK - Tesla's board of directors said Wednesday it will evaluate chief executive Elon Musk's proposal to take the electric car maker private.
China hits back at US with new tariffs
Reuters, Published on 08/08/2018
» BEIJING: China is slapping additional tariffs of 25% on $16 billion worth of US imports from fuel and steel products to autos and medical equipment, the Chinese commerce ministry said, as the world's largest economies escalated their trade dispute.
Jeweller Pandora announces cutbacks, Thailand job losses
Published on 08/08/2018
» COPENHAGEN/BANGKOK: Shares in Danish jewellery maker Pandora plunged by a fifth to their lowest level in more than four years on Tuesday after the company issued a profit warning and announced plans to cut almost 400 jobs.
Former Manafort deputy outlines tax evasion scheme
AFP, Published on 08/08/2018
» ALEXANDRIA (UNITED STATES) - Rick Gates, the key witness in the trial of Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort, described in detail on Tuesday how he helped his ex-boss evade US taxes on millons of dollars for political consulting work done in Ukraine.
Myanmar's captured elephants 'die younger' than domestic-born
AFP, Published on 08/08/2018
» PARIS: Asian elephants snatched from the wild and conscripted to haul logs in Myanmar's timber industry live on average five years less than working elephants born in captivity, researchers said Tuesday.
Tesla boss Musk tweets he may go private
AFP, Published on 08/08/2018
» NEW YORK: Controversial Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said Tuesday he was considering taking the company private, sending shares sharply higher before trading was halted.
Flood fears subside but risk remains
News, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 08/08/2018
» Excess water in Phetchaburi's Kaeng Krachan dam had crossed the spillway as of press time last night but the central municipality was not expected to be flooded due to the province's comprehensive flood-drainage and management plan.
Regime probing anti-Prayut story
News, Published on 08/08/2018
» An article in the The Jakarta Post suggesting Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha does not deserve to chair Asean next year may have had a hidden agenda, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said yesterday.
CSD bags plastic buyer on con rap
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 08/08/2018
» Crime Suppression Police have arrested a man facing 13 arrest warrants for fraud and issuing bad cheques to business people amounting to over 10 million baht.