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'The Rock' diamond dazzles in Geneva
AFP, Published on 06/05/2022
» GENEVA - The biggest white diamond ever to be sold at auction, dubbed "The Rock", will go under the hammer in Geneva on Wednesday and could fetch up to $30 million -- or more.
No Harry, Meghan or Andrew on queen's jubilee balcony: palace
AFP, Published on 06/05/2022
» LONDON - Queen Elizabeth's son Prince Andrew, her grandson Harry and his wife Meghan will not join her on the Buckingham Palace balcony for this year's Trooping the Colour, royal officials said on Friday.
Asian Games the latest Covid casualty
Published on 06/05/2022
» The Asian Games in September in the Chinese city of Hangzhou have been postponed because of Covid-19 with new dates to be announced “in the near future”, organisers said on Friday.
US job growth remains healthy
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/05/2022
» WASHINGTON: US employment continued to increase at a robust pace in April and wage growth moderated, though a surprise drop in the participation rate suggests the labour market will remain exceedingly tight.
Sri Lanka protesters tear-gassed again
AFP, Published on 06/05/2022
» COLOMBO: Police again fired tear gas and water cannon at students trying to storm Sri Lanka’s parliament on Friday as the country was brought to a halt by a trade union strike demanding that the government step down.
'King of streets': Last skateboarder on Ukraine front
AFP, Published on 06/05/2022
» KRAMATORSK (UKRAINE) - The baby-faced teenager in baggy shorts races his skateboard past the bombed burger joint and hit Peace Square just as air raid sirens rolled over the Ukrainian front.
Tour subsidy schemes extended to revitalise tourism
Online Reporters, Published on 06/05/2022
» The government agreed on Friday to extend two travel packages to the end of September, to further encourage people to go on holiday and help the ailing tourism sector.
China travel, tourism 'unlikely to improve materially' as coronavirus curbs hit Labour Day holiday
South China Morning Post, Published on 06/05/2022
» HONG KONG: Travel and tourism spending plunged during China's Labour Day holiday due to coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions rolled out across the country, with the "situation unlikely to improve materially in May", analysts said.
Police prepare charges in abbot's sex scandal case
Wassayos Ngamkham and Nujaree Rakrun, Published on 06/05/2022
» Police will bring charges against a former acting abbot embroiled in a sex scandal, a monk who offered to cover it up and the woman involved.
Two Vietnamese boats seized, 14 crew arrested
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 06/05/2022
» SONGKHLA: Two Vietnamese fishing boats were intercepted and 14 crew members arrested by a navy patrol vessel on Thursday for illegally fishing in Thai waters off Songkhla province.