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Tsunami alert cancelled after 7.9 Alaska quake
Associated Press, Published on 23/01/2018
» ANCHORAGE, Alaska: A powerful earthquake struck off an island in the Gulf of Alaska, prompting a tsunami threat that sent the state's residents along the southern coast and western Canada fleeing for higher ground just after midnight Tuesday.
Pattaya market, vendor apologise for grilled seahorse sale
Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 23/01/2018
» PATTAYA: The Pattaya Floating Market and the vendor of grilled seahorses on Tuesday apologised in public for selling the product that tainted the image of the country.
Judge delays bail decision on Myanmar journalists
Associated Press, Published on 23/01/2018
» YANGON: A Myanmar judge on Tuesday postponed a decision on bail until early February for two Reuters journalists detained on charges of violating a British colonial-era secrecy law that a former military junta once used to muzzle freedom of speech.
SET ends higher, Indonesia stocks lead SE Asian peers
Bangkok Post and Reuters, Published on 23/01/2018
» The Stock Exchange of Thailand closed higher, while other Southeast Asian stock markets gained on Tuesday, tracking broader Asian shares and Wall Street overnight, as investors cheered a deal to end a US government shutdown.
Trump angers China, Korea with new trade tariffs
AFP, Published on 23/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has approved steep tariffs on imports of solar panels and washing machines to protect US producers, triggering an outcry in China and South Korea and even protests at home.
Philippine economic growth fuels talk of rate hikes
Bloomberg, Published on 23/01/2018
» The Philippines retained its position as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies with growth of more than 6% for a sixth consecutive year, fuelling calls for the central bank to start raising interest rates to keep inflation under control.
Grilled seahorses taken off the menu in Pattaya
Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 23/01/2018
» PATTAYA: A food vendor has been ordered to immediately drop grilled seahorses from his menu at a floating market popular with tourists, and his shop is being shut down.
Trump applies tariffs to solar panels, washing machines
AP, Published on 23/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Monday approved tariffs on imported solar-energy components and large washing machines in a bid to help US manufacturers.
Train track to Cambodian border completed
Sawat Ketngam and Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 23/01/2018
» SA KAEO: Refurbishing of the train track from Aranyaprathet to the border is now completed, but the planned reopening of the rail link between Thailand and Cambodia will not happen soon.
Vietnam biggest stock exchange halts trading
Bloomberg, Published on 23/01/2018
» HO CHI MINH City: Trading on Vietnam’s main stock exchange, home to the nation’s benchmark VNIndex, was halted for the day after a malfunction.