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  • THAILAND

    107 reservoirs brace for more monsoon rain

    News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 11/08/2018

    » As many as 107 reservoirs are approaching maximum holding capacity as technicians race against time to drain them before further monsoons hit the country later this month.

  • OPINION

    Puerto Rican hurricane sparks studies in the forest

    News, Published on 11/08/2018

    » When I visited El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico, six months after Hurricane Maria, the roadside debris still hadn't been removed. Power to many rural areas hadn't been restored. Many people had left the island to escape these conditions, and a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine estimates that several thousand people may have died because of the storm.

  • OPINION

    Chaiyaphum owed more than lost data

    News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/08/2018

    » In the age of video clips, one video clip is absent. At a time when we're inundated by cat clips, dog clips, accident clips, slap clips, brawl clips, grope clips, chase clips, murder clips -- when we even have clips recorded from the depths of a dark cave where light hardly reaches -- it's amazing that one crucial clip, shot in broad daylight, is missing, lost or made to be lost forever, along with transparency and maybe justice.

  • THAILAND

    Foreign divers safe after vehicle plunges into canal

    News, Nujaree Raekrun, Published on 11/08/2018

    » NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Two foreign divers relying on a GPS to guide them back to Phuket took an unplanned plunge when a flash flood swept their vehicle off a back road in Thung Yai district and into a canal on Thursday afternoon.

  • OPINION

    Trade war with US sparks rift in Chinese leadership

    News, Published on 11/08/2018

    » A growing trade war with the United States is causing rifts within China's Communist Party, with some critics saying that an overly nationalistic Chinese stance may have hardened the US position, according to four sources close to the government.

  • OPINION

    CCTV claim sows mistrust

    News, Editorial, Published on 11/08/2018

    » The army's explanation this week about the absence of CCTV camera footage at a crime scene where 17-year-old Lahu activist Chaiyaphum Pasae was shot dead by a soldier last year has not only come too late but has also deepened the public mistrust of the military's claim that the extrajudicial killing was made in "self-defence".

  • BUSINESS

    Modest upward trend detected

    Business, Published on 11/08/2018

    » Market Recap: Thai shares moved sideways up this week in response to earnings of listed companies that mostly beat market expectations. Positive domestic catalysts, such as the introduction of the Thailand Future Fund, outweighed negative external factors such as US-China trade tensions.

  • OPINION

    Racist teacher policy

    News, Postbag, Published on 11/08/2018

    » It is the time of the year when international schools in Thailand start recruiting teachers.­ Kris Wya, an African-American teacher with qualifications beyond the requirements, found getting a job in the country difficult. She said it was because of her skin colour and some "smart" schools wanted her photo­graphs to be sent so that they would know who she was, an African.

  • BUSINESS

    SET dips on trade concerns but foreigners buying again

    Business, Published on 11/08/2018

    » Recap: Trade friction between the US and China continues to cast a shadow over equity investment optimism, with China retaliating against Washington's latest threat to impose higher tariffs on Chinese imports later this month.

  • BUSINESS

    Tris downgrades UMI to BB

    Business, Published on 11/08/2018

    » Tris Rating has downgraded the company rating of Union Mosaic Industry (UMI) to BB from BB+, with a stable outlook.

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