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EU and UK post-Brexit trade deal in sight
AFP, Published on 23/12/2020
» BRUSSELS - The European Union and Britain could agree the terms of a post-Brexit trade deal within hours, European sources said Wednesday, as negotiators sought to hammer out the last details.
Putin says expecting no change to US ties under Biden
AFP, Published on 23/12/2020
» MOSCOW - With less than a month before Joe Biden moves into the White House, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was not expecting much change in Moscow's ties with Washington, while his aides said they were less optimistic.
Thousands of trucks mass at Dover in cross-Channel chaos
AFP, Published on 23/12/2020
» DOVER, UK: France and Britain reopened cross-Channel travel on Wednesday after a 48-hour ban to curb the spread of a new coronavirus variant but London has warned it could take days for thousands of trucks blocked around the port of Dover to get moving.
Rapist-murderer of girl, 6, sentenced to death in Myanmar's Shan State
Reuters, Published on 23/12/2020
» Leaders of a minority ethnic group that unofficially controls a swathe of eastern Myanmar has sentenced a man to death for the kidnap, rape and murder of a six-year-old girl.
Government plans 12% rise in budget deficit for 2022 fiscal year
Reuters, Published on 23/12/2020
» The government plans a budget deficit of 700 billion baht for the 2022 fiscal year, up 12.4% from the current fiscal year, government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri said on Wednesday, as the tourism-dependent country deals with a new coronavirus outbreak.
3 more Covid-zone workers dumped in Samut Prakan
Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, Published on 23/12/2020
» Three more Myanmar nationals who worked at a plastic factory in coronavirus-plagued Samut Sakhon province were found abandoned in Samut Prakan’s Bang Phli district.
Russia says expects 'nothing good' from Biden
AFP, Published on 23/12/2020
» MOSCOW: With less than a month before Joe Biden moves into the White House, Moscow on Wednesday accused the incoming US administration of "Russophobia" after the president-elect promised to punish Russia for a major cyber attack.
BTS hit song brings hope of further thaw in China-South Korea relations
South China Morning Post, Published on 23/12/2020
» Four years after South Korea and China had a falling out over the former's stationing of United States missiles ostensibly directed at deterring a North Korean attack, which led to a ban on Korean entertainment, K-pop supergroup BTS' newest hit song, Dynamite, was played on Beijing radio for the first time this week.
Virus from Samut Sakhon hotspot spreads to 22 provinces
Online Reporters, Published on 23/12/2020
» Coronavirus infections linked to an outbreak in Samut Sakhon have now reached 22 provinces.
Phuket meeting decides what activities can go ahead
Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 23/12/2020
» PHUKET: Provincial labour officials were rounding up 106 migrant workers who recently returned from a trip to Samut Sakhon to extend their visas, so they could be tested for Covid-19 infection, governor Narong Wunsiew said on Wednesday.