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Tsunami alert cancelled after 7.9 Alaska quake
Associated Press, Published on 23/01/2018
» ANCHORAGE, Alaska: A powerful earthquake struck off an island in the Gulf of Alaska, prompting a tsunami threat that sent the state's residents along the southern coast and western Canada fleeing for higher ground just after midnight Tuesday.
Injured Nadal retires on day of Australian Open upsets
AFP, Published on 23/01/2018
» MELBOURNE: Rafael Nadal's drive towards a second Australian Open title came to a shuddering injury-induced halt Tuesday on a day of upsets that saw unseeded Kyle Edmund and Elise Mertens make the semi-finals.
Pattaya market, vendor apologise for grilled seahorse sale
Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 23/01/2018
» PATTAYA: The Pattaya Floating Market and the vendor of grilled seahorses on Tuesday apologised in public for selling the product that tainted the image of the country.
South Korea tops, Thailand drops in innovation index
Bloomberg, Published on 23/01/2018
» Score another one for Seoul while Silicon Valley slides.
Largest drug bust for many years in Northeast
Pattanapong Sripiachai, Published on 23/01/2018
» NAKHON PHANOM: A teenage Lao youth was arrested and 11.1 million methamphetamine pills with a street value of 3 billion baht seized on the bank of the Mekong River in Tha Uthen district on Monday night.
Judge delays bail decision on Myanmar journalists
Associated Press, Published on 23/01/2018
» YANGON: A Myanmar judge on Tuesday postponed a decision on bail until early February for two Reuters journalists detained on charges of violating a British colonial-era secrecy law that a former military junta once used to muzzle freedom of speech.
SET ends higher, Indonesia stocks lead SE Asian peers
Bangkok Post and Reuters, Published on 23/01/2018
» The Stock Exchange of Thailand closed higher, while other Southeast Asian stock markets gained on Tuesday, tracking broader Asian shares and Wall Street overnight, as investors cheered a deal to end a US government shutdown.
Minimum wage rise not tabled at cabinet meeting
Online Reporters, Published on 23/01/2018
» Labour Minister Adul Sangsingkeo put off tabling the proposed new minimum wage agreement at the cabinet meeting on Tuesday, while seeking to allay concern over the delay with the explanation some matters still needed to be sorted out.
Alaska earthquake prompts tsunami warning
Agencies, Published on 23/01/2018
» ANCHORAGE, Alaska: A magnitude-8.2 earthquake off Alaska's Kodiak Island prompted a tsunami warning for a large swath of coastal Alaska and Canada's British Columbia while the remainder of the US West Coast was under a watch.
School head transferred, faces sex scandal probe
Published on 23/01/2018
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A school director embroiled in a sex scandal involving an underage student at his school has been transferred and faces both disciplinary and criminal investigations for offences that could see him sacked.