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LIFE

K-pop's BLACKPINK release new song ahead of 9-month world tour

Reuters, Published on 19/08/2022

» SEOUL: South Korean K-pop girl group BLACKPINK have revealed their new song "Pink Venom" later Friday, their first single in nearly two years, ahead of a planned nine-month world tour.

WORLD

Trump executive pleads guilty to tax fraud, will testify at upcoming trial

AFP, Published on 19/08/2022

» NEW YORK - Allen Weisselberg, the long-time chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty on Thursday to tax fraud and agreed to testify at an upcoming criminal trial of the former US president's real estate company.

WORLD

Lake Mead mob murder: Gun found near site of body in barrel

AFP, Published on 19/08/2022

» LOS ANGELES - US detectives investigating a possible decades-old mob murder said Thursday they had found a gun near the spot on an evaporating Las Vegas lake bed where a body inside a barrel was discovered.

THAILAND

CCSA to mull Covid downgrade

News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 19/08/2022

» The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) will on Friday discuss a proposal by the national communicable disease committee to downgrade Covid-19 to a communicable disease under surveillance from its current state as a serious communicable disease.

WORLD

Ex-boxer Frampton fights for integrated schools in Northern Ireland

AFP, Published on 19/08/2022

» BIRMINGHAM (UNITED KINGDOM) - Carl Frampton enjoyed many memorable moments during his boxing career but the retired two-weight world champion has now switched his focus to campaigning for integrated schools in divided Northern Ireland.

WORLD

Dressing the dead: Indonesian villagers clean corpses in afterlife ritual

AFP, Published on 19/08/2022

» TIKALA (INDONESIA) - A family on an Indonesian island poses for a photo with an elderly relative no longer able to smile, while another clan tries to dress one of their eldest forebears in khakis and a shirt.

THAILAND

City Hall to receive B79.7bn budget

News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 19/08/2022

» Bangkok Council on Thursday unanimously approved a budget of 79.71 billion baht for the coming 2023 fiscal year, starting Oct 1, as City Hall plans to use most of the money to ease the city's most nagging problems including flooding and traffic congestion.

LEARNING

City to rezone nightspots

Gary Boyle, Published on 19/08/2022

» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to work with the Metropolitan Police Bureau to revise zoning for night entertainment venues.

LEARNING

Angry Thai tourists want tour refunds

Gary Boyle, Published on 19/08/2022

» Some 67 Thai tourists filed complaints with the Tourism Department, asking tour operators to provide them with refunds of 1.4 million baht in total after entry into South Korea was denied.

WORLD

Facebook bans major US anti-vaccine group

AFP, Published on 19/08/2022

» SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook-owner Meta said Thursday it had kicked one of the most influential US anti-vaccination groups off the social media network for spreading Covid-19 misinformation.