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THAILAND

Families mourn after rail tragedy

News, Prasit Tangprasert and Chakkrapan Natanri, Published on 20/01/2026

» Grief arrived before dawn at Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital on Jan 18, carried by families who had come not to seek treatment, but to take their loved ones home for the final time. At the centre of the mourning was the Thantong family, whose loss has come to symbolise the human cost of the catastrophic crane collapse that struck a passenger train four days earlier.

OPINION

Trump's Greenland logic rattles Europe, Nato

News, Sara Sjolin & Andrea Palasciano & Sanne Wass, Published on 08/01/2026

» Donald Trump's rationale for decapitating Venezuela's government is fuelling concerns among European officials that they could soon face an existential dilemma over Greenland.

THAILAND

No German engines for submarines

News, Post Reporters, Published on 15/05/2025

» The Chinese-made submarines that Thailand ordered will not contain engines from Germany as the country is a member of the European Union and is so barred from exporting arms to China, says Germany's defence ministry.

OPINION

Allies jumpy as US waltzes into Trumpworld 2.0

News, Peter Apps, Published on 21/11/2024

» As America's allies digested the news and scale of Donald Trump's election victory, four US B-52 strategic bombers over a week ago landed at Britain's RAF Fairford having flown the Atlantic and conducted joint training missions over Scandinavia with Finnish and Swedish jets.

OPINION

Putin throws Brics at his global critics

News, John J Metzler, Published on 30/10/2024

» Vladimir Putin put on a good show. The 16th annual Brics Summit in Kazan, Russia, set the stage for the gathering of what's essentially the "Alternative economic club" to the established Western groups such as the G-7 and the IMF. Thirty-five 35 delegations, including 24 heads of state and government, journeyed to Kazan for a three-day summit and schmooze session with the otherwise diplomatically isolated Russian president.

OPINION

Former Merkel rival aims to become chancellor

News, Sarah Marsh, Published on 24/09/2024

» Squeezed out of top-level politics by his arch-party rival Angela Merkel more than two decades ago, Friedrich Merz is on course to land his first-ever government job as Germany's next chancellor. The conservative Christian Democrat Party (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, which together are topping nationwide polls, last Tuesday agreed to nominate Mr Merz, 68, as candidate for chancellor in next year's federal election.

THAILAND

Women police 'needed in abuse cases'

News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/03/2022

» Sexual abuse cases require more women police officers, according to a forum organised by the Gender and Development Research Institute and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Thailand ahead of International Women's Day on Tuesday.

THAILAND

Public invited to debate top issues

News, Post Reporters, Published on 30/10/2021

» A forum dubbed "Thailand Talks" will take place in November to spur constructive dialogue on pressing political, social and economic issues.

THAILAND

Feeding the beast: Chiang Mai smoke seen as world's climate change problem

News, Dave Kendall, Published on 22/04/2021

» As Earth Day dawns, Chiang Mai is breathing more easily. It's been one of the worst-ever smoke seasons in the Rose of the North, with the city winning the accolade of "most polluted city on the planet" on multiple days, but the dust has settled for now.

OPINION

Wonderful world of walrus whiskers

News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 11/08/2019

» A couple of months ago PostScript carried an item about the late English comedian Richard Hearne, known as Mr Pastry, and how his walrus moustache gave him an uncanny resemblance to current White House national security adviser, John Bolton. I watched Mr Bolton giving a speech on TV this week and have to admit I could not shake off the image of the bumbling Mr Pastry. Despite reports that Mr Bolton's boss is not a huge fan of the moustache, Mr Bolton is said to be very proud of his distinctive bristle.