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Saudi price war looks like unspoken gift to Trump
News, Ron Bousso, Published on 16/05/2025
» Oil barely garnered a mention from US President Donald Trump during his glitzy visit to Saudi Arabia this week. But the black gold may explain why the trip went so smoothly.
Impostors' role in modern warfare
News, Diego Gambetta & Thomas Hegghammer, Published on 18/12/2024
» Israel's detonation of thousands of pagers held by Hezbollah fighters and loyalists in mid-September will be remembered as one of the most ingenious plots in the history of spycraft. It is also a reminder that the most powerful weapon in war is not a fighter jet, a drone, or even artificial intelligence, but rather something much older: impersonation.
An Opec for critical minerals?
News, Ludovic Subran, Published on 06/09/2023
» We know that the future will be powered by metals, but it remains to be seen if those metals will be fenced in by iron curtains. After all, most critical minerals come from only a handful of countries: China controls nearly all heavy rare-earth materials (including 91% of magnesium and 76% of silicon metal), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) accounts for over 60% of the global cobalt market, and South Africa controls 71% of the world's platinum supply.
Little sympathy
News, Postbag, Published on 30/10/2022
» Re: "Thai sovereignty is not for abuse," (Opinion, Oct 28) and "Why Thailand abstained in UNGA vote", (Opinion, Oct 25).
Vietnam: No agreement with Thailand on rice prices
News, Reuters, Published on 23/09/2022
» HANOI: Vietnam said on Thursday it had no deal with Thailand to jointly raise rice prices.
Agencies team up to track heroin smugglers
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 26/11/2021
» The Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) has joined the Office of the Narcotics Control Board and the Customs Department to track down a drug trafficking network that smuggled more than 450 kilogrammes of heroin in logs to Taiwan last month.
Phuket's chance to start afresh
News, Editorial, Published on 28/03/2021
» With the prime minister today expected to announce plans for the reopening of Phuket to foreign tourists in July and the kingdom hoping to regain its crown as one of the most visited and desirable holiday and travel destinations in the world, there is understandable concern over the move.
Mexican drug cartels eyeing 'Thai market'
News, Wassana Nanuam and Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/12/2019
» HAWAII: Mexican drug syndicates are trafficking methamphetamine into Thailand and other Asian countries, according to Earl Hampton, deputy director of the United States' Joint Interagency Task Force West (JIATFW).
Come clean on drug past
News, Editorial, Published on 11/09/2019
» Yesterday, as he denied an Australian press report on his previous conviction for heroin trafficking in Sydney in the 1990s, Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Capt Thamanat Prompow, also urged Thais not to dwell on the past and put the matter of his record to rest.
Record half-tonne Kiwi meth haul 'passed through Bangkok'
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 08/09/2019
» The half a tonne of methamphetamine intercepted by New Zealand's authorities, reported to be the largest ever seizure of the drug at that country's border, is thought to have originated from the Golden Triangle, says the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB).