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News, Andrea Felsted, Published on 27/10/2023
» Hold onto your Gucci bucket hat. With the middle class cutting back, the luxury industry is realising that it's all about selling to the 1%.
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/09/2021
» When the Sept 11 attacks struck New York and Washington in 2001 and the US armed forces went on full alert, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice immediately got on the direct line to Moscow and told Vladimir Putin not to worry: the United States was not going to attack Russia. Mr Putin replied that he understood, and was standing Russian forces down.
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 17/05/2021
» The new French ambassador to Thailand's passion for Asia was immediately evident when he answered why he chose to be posted in Thailand.
News, John Lloyd, Published on 10/12/2018
» In the "careful what you wish for" stakes, few issues rank higher than the plan for a second referendum by those in the UK hoping for a reversal of the country's June 2016 vote to leave the European Union (the "Remainers"). If secured, the outcome could be a fast track to a phenomenon the UK has so far avoided -- the creation of a large, angry populist party, probably of the right and perhaps also of the left.