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Your horoscope for Jan 5-11
Guru, Chaiyospol Hemwijit, Published on 05/01/2024
» Your spot-on horoscope for work, money and relationship from Guru by the Bangkok Post's famously accurate fortune teller. Let's see how you will fare this week and beyond.
Guru's Weekly Buzz: Jan 5-11
Guru, Guru writers, Published on 05/01/2024
» Guru by Bangkok Post's pick of the most exciting products, activities, food and travel to indulge in.
Track hero turned killer Pistorius released
Reuters, Published on 05/01/2024
» PRETORIA, South Africa - Former Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius was released on parole on Friday, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend in a crime that shocked South Africa, a country long inured to violence against women.
December inflation falls 0.83%, more than forecast
Reuters, Published on 05/01/2024
» Thailand's headline consumer price index (CPI) dropped 0.83% in December from a year earlier, the Commerce Ministry said on Friday, making it the eighth straight month that it was outside the Bank of Thailand's (BoT) target of 1% to 3%.
Booze tax cuts approved to boost tourism
Gary Boyle, Published on 05/01/2024
» The cabinet has approved tax cuts on alcoholic beverages, with wine prices set to fall significantly, in order to boost tourism.
National Telecom investigating new business opportunities
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 05/01/2024
» State telecom enterprise National Telecom (NT) is eager to join the smart meter project operated by Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) and Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) by providing the two state enterprises with data communications services.
Visa pact to boost stocks
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 05/01/2024
» Investors are recommended to gradually buy and accumulate travel stocks as the permanent visa-free arrangement between Thailand and China could drive the number of Chinese visitors to rise by 57% this year, with total foreign arrivals reaching 33 million, according to analysts.
PM's 'salesman diplomacy' in view
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 05/01/2024
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, after just four months in office, announced his "salesman diplomacy" strategy during a meeting with Thai ambassadors and consuls-general at Thailand's Foreign Ministry in November last year.
Ripe time to look east to fix climate regimes
Oped, Antara Haldar, Published on 05/01/2024
» The Pulitzer-nominated play Other Desert Cities, set in Palm Springs, California, tells a tale about a fractured family's struggles to establish dialogue across political divides. More than a decade after the play premiered in 2011, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), held late last year in another desert city, offered a macrocosmic telling of the same story.
Review the rooftop solar option
Oped, Chris Greacen, Published on 05/01/2024
» Following the past year's cabinet meeting on Dec 19, Energy Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga said the government would continue to subsidise electricity to households, declaring the move as a "New Year gift for the people".