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Lop Buri monkey catching operation resumes
News, Online Reporters, Published on 11/06/2025
» LOP BURI – The trapping, sterilising and relocating of macaques continues, to reduce their plague-like numbers in downtown Lop Buri.
Even Warren Buffett makes statistical errors
News, Marty Fridson, Published on 24/05/2025
» One person you wouldn't expect to hear tout a statistical fallacy is Warren Buffett, but the legendary investor appeared to do just that at the recent Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, a reminder of just how easy it is to fall into statistical traps. While speaking at the annual meeting in early May, Mr Buffett commented while holding up a can of sugar-laden soda: "For 94 years I've been able to drink whatever I want to drink. They predict all kinds of terrible things for me, but it hasn't happened yet ... Charlie [Munger] and I never really exercised that much or did anything -- we were carefully preserving ourselves for these years."
Bangkok cable thieves shocked in the act
News, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 15/05/2025
» Two thieves were electrocuted while attempting to steal electrical cables in Bangkok, resulting in severe injuries and their subsequent arrest. The incident caused power outages and damage estimated at millions of baht, police said.
How the world can escape the new Gilded Age
News, Daron Acemoglu, Published on 25/10/2024
» Tech billionaires such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are not just among the richest people in human history. They also are exceptionally powerful -- socially, culturally and politically. While this is partly a reflection of the social status that our society attaches to wealth in general, that is not the whole story.
City's anti-rat crusade has never been this normal
News, Stephen Mihm, Published on 13/08/2024
» New York City's mayor, Eric Adams, has opened up a new front of his war on rats. Mr Adams, who already made headlines for appointing a "rat czar" last year, has escalated his campaign against the city's ubiquitous rodents. Last week, he announced the creation of the "Rat Pack", which he billed as an "elite squad of anti-rat activists" who will take the fight to the enemy.
Veg fest to generate B9bn: TAT
News, Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 12/10/2023
» PHUKET: The annual 10-day vegetarian festival is expected to generate over 9 billion baht, said the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), while the Phuket Provincial Commercial Office said that vegetable prices are lower than that of the same period last year.
Padipat critised over barbecue 'meeting'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/08/2023
» Deputy House Speaker Padipat Suntiphada has come under fire after spending his parliamentarian allowance on treating 370 caretakers for an all-you-can-eat buffet on Friday evening.
Consumer scams cost B140m in July
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 07/08/2023
» Online goods and service purchase scams, particularly ones involving fake restaurant reservations, cost more than 140 million baht in damages to consumers in July, the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) warned on Sunday.
The curious case of the missing column
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 16/04/2023
» Many thanks to readers who expressed concern about the non-appearance of PostScript last Sunday. Some feared Crutch might have been under the weather or had even departed for the Great Typewriter in the Sky. Others thought I had fled the scene in a bid to escape Songkran, which in retrospect would not have been a bad idea.
Raid finds tainted pork meat
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/03/2023
» CHON BURI: The Department of Livestock Development has seized over 500 kilogrammes of pork and squid preserved with formaldehyde from an unlicensed meat factory in Phan Thong district, which authorities believe were destined for barbecue restaurants.