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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.
SpaceX poised to launch all-civilian crew into Earth orbit
AFP, Published on 15/09/2021
» KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, United States: Can four people who've never been to space before spend three days spinning around Earth after only a few months of training?
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.
Thaksin advises Prayut to listen to young protesters
Online Reporters, Published on 15/09/2021
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha needs to sit down and talk to young protesters if he wants to end the anti-government rallies, according to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
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.
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.
Medieval campaign
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/09/2021
» Re: "Govt links 'Lisa' smash hit to 'soft power' plan", (BP, Sept 13).
HK unions urge caution as catering businesses prod staff to get Covid-19 jabs
South China Morning Post, Published on 15/09/2021
» HONG KONG: More Hong Kong businesses are making it compulsory for staff to be vaccinated against Covid-19, even as unions and the equality watchdog are warning employers to tread carefully or they could be at risk of breaching the city's anti-discrimination laws.
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.