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UK launches mortgage help as interest rate soar
AFP, Published on 23/06/2023
» LONDON - Britain on Friday unveiled help for millions of cash-strapped homeowners facing soaring mortgage costs in a cost-of-living crisis, after the Bank of England unexpectedly hiked interest rates to a new 15-year peak.
US a country divided one year after Supreme Court abortion ruling
AFP, Published on 23/06/2023
» WASHINGTON - The historic US Supreme Court about-face on abortion a year ago has created a nightmare for women seeking the procedure, a legal morass for the courts and a challenge for the Republican Party.
Guilty plea in UK over Vietnamese migrant deaths
AFP, Published on 23/06/2023
» LONDON: A Romanian man accused of being a ringleader of a people smuggling operation pleaded guilty on Friday to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants, who were found dead in a lorry in southeast England.
Millions head to Mecca for huge hajj
Published on 23/06/2023
» MECCA, Saudi Arabia: Enormous crowds of worshippers thronged Islam’s holiest city on Friday for the biggest hajj pilgrimage in years, with more than two million expected to brave the scorching Saudi Arabian heat.
Vendor ‘extortion’ police surrender
Post Reporters, Published on 23/06/2023
» Two police corporals suspected of collecting a bribe from a food vendor in Nonthaburi in exchange for a special sticker have reportedly surrendered after a video of them went viral on social media.
Bogus doctor arrested at Bangkok beauty clinic
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 23/06/2023
» A 33-year-old man claiming to be a doctor has been arrested for illegally giving filler injections and other unlicensed services during a raid on a beauty clinic in Chatuchak district of Bangkok.
THAI ‘could double’ narrow-body fleet over next decade
Published on 23/06/2023
» Thai Airways International aims to finalise a deal to buy at least 30 new aircraft by the end of the year and could double its fleet of narrow-body jets over the next decade, chief executive Chai Eamsiri said on Friday.
31 die in abandoned South African gold mine
AFP, Published on 23/06/2023
» JOHANNESBURG: At least 31 people, suspected to be illegal miners, are believed to have died last month in an abandoned South African gold mine, the government said on Friday.
Soi Romanee named one of world's most beautiful streets
Online Reporters, Published on 23/06/2023
» Soi Romanee, an old narrow side-street in Thailand's southern island resort province of Phuket, has been ranked the world's 19th most beautiful street by Seasia.Stats, a news website from Southeast Asia.
Malaysian court charges 4 Thais with human trafficking
AFP and Post Reporters, Published on 23/06/2023
» KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court on Friday charged four Thai nationals with human trafficking in connection with the discovery eight years ago of mass graves near the country’s border with Thailand.