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Finland will decide to apply for NATO membership on May 12: newspaper
Reuters, Published on 02/05/2022
» HELSINKI: Finland will decide to apply for NATO membership on May 12, Finnish newspaper Iltalehti reported late on Sunday, citing anonymous government sources.
200kg marijuana seized near Mekong riverbank
Pattanapong Sripiachai, Published on 02/05/2022
» NAKHON PHANOM: Officers from Border Patrol Police Company 237 seized about 200 kilogrammes of premium-grade dried marijuana found abandoned near the bank of the Mekong River in Tha Uthen district late on Sunday night.
Philippines' Marcos keeps big lead in poll on presidential race
Reuters, Published on 02/05/2022
» MANILA: Ferdinand Marcos Jr has maintained his wide lead in the Philippines presidential election race in a new survey released on Monday, but some political observers say the game may not be over for closest rival Leni Robredo.
Romance scam sets world record
Gary Boyle, Published on 02/05/2022
» In late 2019 Essilor International discovered fraudulent fund transfers totalling 6.3 billion baht at its Thai unit, Essilor Manufacturing (Thailand).
Some Shanghai residents sent out of city in overnight Covid raids
AFP, Published on 02/05/2022
» SHANGHAI: In the middle of the night, Shanghai resident Lucy said she and her neighbours were forced into buses and taken hundreds of kilometres away from the locked-down Chinese metropolis to a makeshift quarantine centre.
China contagion threatens to derail the world’s emerging markets
Bloomberg, Published on 02/05/2022
» A widespread selloff in China is rippling through emerging markets, threatening to snuff out growth and drag down everything from stocks to currencies and bonds.
Cairns opens up on pain wrought by match-fixing trials
AFP, Published on 02/05/2022
» WELLINGTON - New Zealand cricket great Chris Cairns feels he can talk candidly about the pain of match-fixing allegations brought against him now that he has survived multiple health scares.
Romance scam sets world record
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 02/05/2022
» In late 2019 Essilor International discovered fraudulent fund transfers totalling 6.3 billion baht at its Thai unit, Essilor Manufacturing (Thailand).
Police raid Pattaya drug party
Gary Boyle, Published on 02/05/2022
» Sixteen people, most from China and Myanmar, were arrested and drugs seized during a police raid in Pattaya early on Saturday morning.
Regine, disco pioneer and nightclub queen, dies at 92
AFP, Published on 02/05/2022
» PARIS: French singer and actress Regine, who laid claim to the invention of the modern discotheque and once ran a nightclub empire from Paris to Los Angeles, died on Sunday aged 92, her granddaughter told AFP.