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Thai, Asia stocks plunge on virus fears, oil prices
AFP and online reporters, Published on 09/03/2020
» TOKYO: Stock markets plunged in Thailand and around Asia on Monday, as panic selling set in with traders fretting over the economic impact of the new coronavirus and digesting a free-fall in the oil price.
Thai, Asian markets resume losses as stimulus joy fades
AFP and online reporters, Published on 30/03/2020
» HONG KONG: Thai and other Asian markets fell Monday, with the benchmark Stock Exchange of Thailand index down 1.67% at 11.55am, following a steep drop on Wall Street as the jubilation from last week's enormous US stimulus package faded and investors returned their attention to the soaring infection and death rate of the coronavirus.
Oil prices collapse on storage fears, Asia equities mixed
AFP and online reporters, Published on 20/04/2020
» Oil prices collapsed to more than two-decade lows Monday as traders grow concerned that storage facilities are reaching their limits, while equities were mixed, with some support coming from signs that the coronavirus may have peaked in Europe and the United States.
Bangkok protesters brace for rain
Online Reporters and AFP, Published on 18/09/2020
» Pro-democracy protesters may have to defy rain this weekend, as the capital is an expected target of tropical storm Noul, which already drenched some northeastern provinces on Friday.
18 dead in Chachoengsao bus-train collision
Online reporters and AFP, Published on 11/10/2020
» CHACHOENGSAO: Eighteen passengers were killed and 44 injured on Sunday when a bus collided with a train in Chachoengsao province, officials said, after earlier saying 20 had died.
'Emperor' Xi says China ready to fight 'bloody battle'
AFP AND ONLINE REPORTERS, Published on 20/03/2018
» BEIJING - President Xi Jinping delivered a blistering nationalist speech on Tuesday, warning against any attempts to split China and touting the country's readiness to fight "the bloody battle" to regain its rightful place in the world.
Smoking: a rundown on lighting up
AFP AND ONLINE REPORTERS, Published on 30/05/2018
» PARIS: Every minute, smokers get through nearly 11 million cigarettes and 10 die from the habit, experts say, in an industry that generates billions of dollars.
Boys, rescuers get invitation from Manchester United
AFP and Online Reporters, Published on 10/07/2018
» Manchester United have invited the Wild Boars football team and their rescuers to Old Trafford this coming season.
Australian cave-rescue hero emerges to family tragedy
AFP and online reporters, Published on 11/07/2018
» SYDNEY: An Australian doctor who looked after a young Thai football team during their harrowing cave ordeal emerged from the flooded underground complex on Tuesday to the sad news that his own father had died.
58 of 216 Thais trapped on quake-hit volcano to return Tuesday
AFP, Published on 31/07/2018
» MATARAM, Indonesia: Fifty-eight of the 216 Thais evacuated from an Indonesian volcano after a deadly earthquake triggered landslides that trapped them on the mountain will return home on Tuesday, officials said.