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Russia denies poisoning ex-spy in UK
AFP, Published on 13/03/2018
» LONDON: Moscow on Tuesday denied it was behind the poisoning of a former double agent in Britain as a midnight deadline loomed to explain how a suspected Russian-made nerve agent was used in the attack.
Ice bridge in Argentine glacier collapses, no witnesses
AFP, Published on 13/03/2018
» BUENOS AIRES - An ice bridge that was part of a glacier at the tip of Argentina has collapsed in the dead of night, thwarting thousands of tourists who had hoped to watch the spectacle.
Cram schools hit as student numbers fall
Gary Boyle, Published on 13/03/2018
» The number of students at private tutorial schools preparing for entrance exams has dropped by about 20% over the past couple of years and the trend is likely to continue, putting many cram schools, especially small-sized ones, at risk of closing down.
Fukushima fish get clean bill of health
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/03/2018
» Authorities have intercepted fish stocks imported from Fukushima in Japan for inspection but have not yet found any harmful traces of radioactive substances in products from this nuclear accident-hit prefecture.
Cram schools hit as student numbers fall
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 13/03/2018
» The number of students at private tutorial schools preparing for entrance exams has dropped by about 20% over the past couple of years and the trend is likely to continue, putting many cram schools, especially small-sized ones, at risk of closing down.
Public lose the airwaves
News, Editorial, Published on 13/03/2018
» The junta is poised to "reset" the regulatory body that makes all the key decisions about radio, TV and mobile phones. Secret meetings of selectors have narrowed a field of 86 applicants down to 14 short-list candidates. From that final list, the National Legislative Assembly will soon vote on which seven are best qualified to sit on the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). There will be winners but more importantly, there will be so many losers.
Welfare fraud tab put at B97m
News, King-oua Laohong and Jakkrapan Nathanri, Published on 13/03/2018
» The Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) has found that more than 97 million baht in funds for the destitute at welfare centres in 44 provinces has gone missing.
Organisational learning for business success
Business, Published on 13/03/2018
» Warren Bennis, an American scholar, organisational consultant and leadership author, once said: "Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing."
Bangkok to hear Bartók's Viola Concerto
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 13/03/2018
» So many jokes have been written about the viola that it really should be pitied. Without a look of its own (the viola resembles an overweight violin), without its own sound quality (it shares three-quarter of the violin notes, three-quarter of the cello notes), stuck behind the violins in the orchestra, the poor viola is hardly singular. In fact, when Hector Berlioz wrote solo viola into the Harold In Italy symphony, Paganini refused to play it. And the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, noting how the viola shared the looks and music of other stringed instruments, called the instrument "the hermaphrodite of the orchestra".
The secretive UK army lab where poisons are hunted and made
AFP, Published on 13/03/2018
» LONDON - A secretive British army base, which identified the nerve gas used to poison a Russian ex-spy earlier this month, has for years been fuelling conspiracy theories with its pioneering research into chemical and biological weapons.