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Taliban thank world for promised aid, urge US to show 'heart'
AFP, Published on 15/09/2021
» KABUL - The Taliban on Tuesday thanked the world for pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid to Afghanistan, and urged the United States to show "heart" to the impoverished country.
China and the US: Too big to be equal?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/09/2021
» Never mind the destruction of the relatively free society of Hong Kong (no emergency airlift like in Kabul, Afghanistan, but the number of people fleeing Hong Kong may ultimately be larger). Never mind the persecution of the Uighurs, or the Orwellian surveillance society that the Communist Party is building, or the tens of millions who died in wars, famines and "cultural revolutions" to bring equality to China.
Autocracy, not giggling, is the problem
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 15/09/2021
» When two influencer monks -- Phra Maha Praiwan Worawano and Phra Maha Sompong Talaputto -- were summoned to Government House last week for giggling too much in their dhamma talk shows, I expected intellectual duels between the conservatives and the liberals on the monastic codes of conduct and the clergy's need to catch up with times.
Medieval campaign
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/09/2021
» Re: "Govt links 'Lisa' smash hit to 'soft power' plan", (BP, Sept 13).
Always check your sources
Life, James Hein, Published on 15/09/2021
» At the dawning of the internet age the aim was to provide a platform to share information, initially between higher education facilities. It was a golden age of what was essentially a library of information shared across the United States and later the world. The early fact checkers were academics interested in facts, data and a robust discussion.
All are invited to Ikea's virtual home event
Life, Published on 15/09/2021
» Ikea is holding the first-ever "Ikea Festival", a 24-hour virtual event that will allow guests to enjoy home tours around the world and have fun activities, starting tomorrow at 1pm.
AoT to take over 3 airports
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 15/09/2021
» Three airports currently run by the Department of Airports (DoA) will soon come under the control of Airports of Thailand (AoT) in order to help drive tourism growth, Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said on Tuesday.
Illegal border crossers caught in Sai Yok
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 15/09/2021
» KANCHANABURI: Eleven Myanmar job seekers were arrested after they illegally crossed the border into Sai Yok district of this western border province on Tuesday night.
Stench of death: villagers flee site of Ethiopia mass killings
AFP, Published on 15/09/2021
» CHENNA (ETHIOPIA) - Bodies of rebel fighters dot the roads and fields leading to Chenna, a village in the mountains of northern Ethiopia that this month saw one of the most gruesome reported incidents in the country's 10-month-old war.
SpaceX's first tourists all set for 'camper van' trip to space
AFP, Published on 15/09/2021
» KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (UNITED STATES) - The weather seems cooperative and the passengers are raring to go: SpaceX's first space tourists were a picture of calm Tuesday as they prepared to blast off on a three-day mission to orbit the Earth.