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Thailand wants faster inflation
News, Daniel Moss, Published on 06/06/2024
» It's hard to find a leader anywhere these days who will argue the case for faster inflation. Politicians would rather drink hemlock than call for a renewed acceleration; they are often too busy nodding sympathetically at what their opponents call a cost-of-living crisis. But there is a kingdom where calling for more elevated prices, sooner, isn't off limits. In fact, the government embraces the concept.
Princess confers 2022 Mahidol Award
News, Post Reporters, Published on 27/01/2023
» Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn represented His Majesty the King in conferring the 2022 Prince Mahidol Award in Chakri Maha Prasat Throne Hall at the Grand Palace to honour four laureates for their work in the fields of medicine and public health.
4 recipients win this year's prize
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 24/11/2022
» Four recipients from the US and Australia have been named as winners of the Prince Mahidol Award this year in the fields of medicine and public health, the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation announced on Wednesday.
Back in the cinema again with 007
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/10/2021
» Just got back from watching No Time to Die, Daniel Craig's fifth and final appearance as James Bond and the 25th film in the franchise. It was quite a decent send-off for Craig and entertaining enough to sit back and enjoy my first visit to a cinema in a couple of years.
It is not the US's job to protect Taiwan from China
News, John Mac Ghlionn, Published on 09/08/2021
» On Tuesday, July 27, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned the Chinese Communist Party to cease its aggressive operations in the Pacific. Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore, Mr Austin declared that the United States "will not flinch when our interests are threatened". One of these "interests", according to Mr Austin, involves the protection of Taiwan.
A chimp that became a space pioneer
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 31/01/2021
» Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first chimpanzee in space. Not a lot of people know that.
Virginia governor 'sorry' for 1984 racist photo
News, Published on 03/02/2019
» Washington: Virginia's governor acknowledged on Friday that he was photographed more than 30 years ago in a costume that was "clearly racist and offensive" -- admitting that he had dressed either as a member of the Ku Klux Klan or in blackface -- but resisted a flood of calls for his resignation from national and state Democrats.
ING penalty puts Europe's laundering controls on spot
News, Toby Sterling & John O'Donnell, Published on 06/09/2018
» When Dutch prosecutors trawled through ING's books they found a "women's underwear trader" had been able to launder €150 million (5.7 billion baht) through the bank's accounts without ringing alarm bells.
Putting hearts and minds in Thai-US ties
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 24/07/2018
» The international rescue of 12 boys and their football coach in Chiang Rai earlier this month quickly permeated into the conference room of the Thai-US dialogue in Washington DC last week. The feel-good atmosphere jump-started the much-needed dialogue between the region's oldest allies.