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China military purge exposes Xi's unease
News, John J Metzler, Published on 14/02/2026
» Strange and mysterious events are transpiring inside the walls of Beijing's Forbidden City. In the massive nearby government compound Zhongnanhai there's a clear unease as Communist Party Chief and military supremo Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, has shuffled the political cards in the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), by purging his two top generals.
Thailand and the US open demining centre
News, Published on 29/05/2025
» RATCHABURI - The Thailand Mine Action Center (TMAC), in partnership with the United States Department of Defense, officially opened its Center of Excellence on Humanitarian Demining Missions on Tuesday.
Ramp up maritime security, ex-Japan diplomat warns
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 04/01/2024
» The president of the Foreign Policy Institute Japan has suggested that Thailand needs to strengthen its maritime security as global geopolitics are becoming increasingly intense, particularly in Asia and the South China Sea.
Kim Jong-un marks spy satellite victory
News, John J Metzler, Published on 30/11/2023
» North Korea got lucky. After two previous failures earlier this year to launch a spy satellite, the Pyongyang regime successfully sent a satellite into orbit.
Heavy rains drench North's rice fields
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/08/2023
» Heavy rains on Wednesday continued to hit Mae Hong Son's Sop Moei district in northern Thailand, sweeping a bridge connecting a village with the district and flooding houses and paddy fields.
Burn-offs persist
News, Postbag, Published on 09/04/2023
» Re: "'Accidental' Fires," (PostBag, April 8).
Thailand third in 'best country' survey
News, Post Reporters, Published on 07/10/2022
» Thailand was ranked third on the "Best Countries in the World" list, while Bangkok ranked second on the "Best Big Cities in the World" list, according to Condé Nast Traveler's Reader's Choice Awards 2022.
Japan will open to tour groups from next month
News, Published on 28/05/2022
» Tokyo: Japan announced on Thursday that it will reopen to tourists from 98 countries and regions starting June 10, ending a two-year pandemic closure, but travellers will only be allowed in with tour groups.
Why the Tokyo Olympics will go on
News, Bill Emmott, Published on 12/07/2021
» Having been postponed from last year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympic Games are approaching their opening on July 23 amid a chorus of doom. Japanese and foreigners alike are predicting, or even outright demanding, the event's cancellation.
A song that takes you off the beaten track
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 07/02/2021
» Surfing through YouTube this week, I came across the novelty Australian song I've Been Everywhere, which I haven't heard for a long time. It doesn't have much of a melody, but it's fun, something we could all do with these days. It is also a useful geography lesson.