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Bottas wins season-opening GP in Austria
AFP, Published on 05/07/2020
» SPIELBERG: Finland's Valtteri Bottas drove his Mercedes to victory in the coronavirus-delayed season-opening Formula One Grand Prix in Austria on Sunday.
Drunk people can't socially distance, UK police conclude
AFP, Published on 05/07/2020
» LONDON: Britain's police said Sunday that revellers who packed London's Soho district the night pubs finally reopened made it "crystal clear" that drunk people cannot socially distance.
Dozens dead, missing in Japan as heavy rain causes floods, mudslides
AFP, Published on 05/07/2020
» TOKYO: About 34 people are either confirmed or feared dead -- including 14 at a nursing home -- after torrential rain in Japan triggered massive floods and mudslides, authorities said Sunday.
Philippines, Indonesia set grim Covid-19 records
Reuters, Published on 05/07/2020
» Two of Thailand's regional neighbours set unwanted records in their Covid-19 tallies on Sunday.
Construction of Vientiane station for Laos-China rail link begins
Post Reporters, Published on 05/07/2020
» Laos has started building a railway station in Vientiane to service rail links with China slated to being operating next year.
Faked Philippine records left false trail for Wirecard exec
Published on 05/07/2020
» Faked immigration records in the Philippines were used to throw off authorities seeking a former executive at Wirecard AG, who went missing after the German firm was implicated in an accounting scandal.
Taweesak elected ACT party leader
Online Reporters, Published on 05/07/2020
» Taweesak Na Takuathung has been elected new leader of the Action Coalition of Thailand (ACT), a five-MP party in the coalition government, replacing M.R. Chatu Mongol Sonakul.
Australian cities extend protests supporting BLM, indigenous peoples
Reuters, Published on 05/07/2020
» Several hundred people gathered in Sydney on Sunday as part of weekend-long protests in Australia's large cities in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and increased focus of the mistreatment of indigenous peoples.
Dreams of Myanmar's 'unwashed' jade miners buried by disaster
AFP, Published on 05/07/2020
» HPAKANT, Myanmar: Five Yay Ma Hsay -- or 'unwashed' as the jade miners of northern Myanmar are known -- arrived early Thursday at the pit to scrape out a living on a scraggy hillside, lured by the prospect of finding a stone that could transform their lives.
Myanmar continues capital-market projects despite virus
Bloomberg News, Published on 05/07/2020
» Foreign investment in Myanmar’s fledging capital markets should increase quickly after the pandemic subsides, as the country pushes ahead with new trading platforms for stocks and bonds, according a Securities and Exchange Commission of Myanmar official.