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Putin declares 30-hour Easter ceasefire in Ukraine
Published on 19/04/2025
» Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, ordering his forces to end hostilities at 6pm Moscow time on Saturday until the end of Sunday.
Vance and Francis: divergent values but shared ideas
AFP, Published on 19/04/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics who preaches for a more open church and empathy for migrants.
Executive of contractor for doomed Bangkok building arrested
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 19/04/2025
» The Department of Special Investigation has arrested a Chinese executive of the construction company that was building the State Audit Office tower in Bangkok, where dozens of people died when it collapsed during the March 28 earthquake.
‘Joe Ferrari’ death ruled a suicide after autopsy
Post Reporters, Published on 19/04/2025
» An autopsy report has confirmed that Thitisan “Joe Ferrari” Utthanaphon, a former police colonel convicted in the torture-murder of a drug suspect, committed suicide while in custody at Klong Prem Central Prison in Bangkok.
Cambodia and China commit to canal megaproject
Published on 19/04/2025
» Cambodia and China have signed a $1.2-billion financing agreement for a 150-kilometre canal that will link a branch of the Mekong River near Phnom Penh to a port on the Gulf of Thailand, ending months of uncertainty about the megaproject.
Unesco registers 3 Thai ‘Memory of the World’ items
Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 19/04/2025
» Three Thai documentary heritage items have been inscribed on Unesco’s Memory of the World Register, as part of a new group of 74 entries from around the world announced earlier this year.
Bhumjaithai Party expels B400m fraud MP
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 19/04/2025
» The Bhumjaithai Party has expelled Ekarat Changlao, an MP for Khon Kaen, following his conviction in an embezzlement case.
Boeing begins flying back planes refused by Chinese airlines
Published on 19/04/2025
» The US plane manufacturer Boeing has begun flying 737 Max jets that were refused by Chinese airline customers back to the United States, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies escalates.
Fake trading firm a front for B3.2bn gambling website
Chakkrapan Natanri, Published on 19/04/2025
» Cybercrime police have arrested six Thais who allegedly created a non-existent agricultural trading company as a front for a major gambling website with over 3.2 billion baht in circulation.
China-built airport in Nepal ‘littered with corruption’
Published on 19/04/2025
» A government inquiry into a new $216-million international airport in Nepal’s second-biggest city found that “irregularities and corruption” by officials and lawmakers allowed a Chinese state-owned contractor to ignore its obligations and charge for work it never completed.