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Zelensky-Trump clash spurs rethink by US allies
News, Peter Apps, Published on 10/03/2025
» As they watched Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky evicted from the White House last week after an unprecedented live televised quarrel with President Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance, some of America's closest allies began to swiftly reappraise decades of foreign and defence policy.
New Zealand man falls to his death
News, Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 30/08/2024
» A man from New Zealand fell to his death from a luxury hotel in Pattaya, Chon Buri, yesterday.
New Zealander falls to death from Pattaya hotel
News, Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 29/08/2024
» A man from New Zealand fell to his death from a luxury hotel in Pattaya, Chon Buri, on Thursday morning.
NZ premier to pay visit
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 09/04/2024
» New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will pay an official visit to Thailand at the invitation of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin from April 16-18.
Conscription panic isn't the debate Europe needs
News, Lionel Laurent, Published on 06/04/2024
» 'The French are all soldiers and must defend their homeland." So decreed the 18th-century law that made military service mandatory in France, until the end of the Cold War banished it to the history books and replaced it with a kind of glorified recruitment day -- which I dutifully attended as a teenager and promptly forgot about. Nobody under the age of 45 in France has forcibly worn army fatigues or picked up a weapon, including Emmanuel Macron.
Nobel Laureate economist explains ethos at city event
News, Sukanya Pongpaew, Published on 18/03/2024
» An ability to analyse sequences and future decisions is crucial in the realm of economics, Professor Finn Kydland, a Norwegian Nobel Laureate economist, told attendees during a keynote speech at a recent event.
BMA tells Khao San bars to keep the noise down
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 09/02/2023
» City Hall has told businesses along Khao San Road to lower their noise levels within 15 days after receiving complaints from neighbouring areas about noise pollution.
Profiting from vice
News, Postbag, Published on 21/12/2022
» Re: "Rich couple arrested for operating gambling, pornography websites" (BP, 16 Dec).
Honour models for democracy
News, Editorial, Published on 18/12/2022
» Since the 1998 ouster of the dictator Suharto -- who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for over three decades -- the world's fourth most populous nation has undergone a series of rapid changes. Once dependent on foreign aid to exercise its basic functions, Indonesia has firmly established itself as a major economic player in the Asia-Pacific region, with the distinction of being the only Southeast Asian economy to be included in the Group of 20.
British exec nabbed over foreign scam
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 07/10/2022
» A British executive accused of enticing people to invest in a foreign fund and refusing to pay them back after the contracts expired, causing 40 million baht in damage, was arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport yesterday.