Registered voters based in Thailand are taking time off work, traveling overnight and braving COVID-19 restrictions to take part in the Nov. 8 general election. ( read original story ...)
Thailand’s luxury quarantine: Private pools and beautiful villas
AFPTV 1. Tilt down Banyan tree at the The Senses Resort2. Wide shot entrance of a 2 bedroom villa3. Wide shot bathtub4. Wide shot swimming pool of a 2 bedroom villa5. Wide shot living room where the ... ( read original story ...)
To Understand Thailand’s Latest Pro-Democracy Movement, Go Back to 1976
Returning to Thammasat University 44 years after a massacre, Pojanee Theil describes Thailand as a country stuck in a loop. Just a few hundred yards from the royal palace, the radical campus is once ... ( read original story ...)
Thailand’s zoo director shot dead while chairing a meeting on disappearing exotic animals
Authorities are investigating the murder of the head of Thailand’s Zoological Park Organization (ZPOT), who was shot and killed Saturday as he was chairing a meeting investigating the disappearance of ... ( read original story ...)
Armenia PM Pashinyan Says Turkey Behind ‘War’ In Karabakh
Turkey's "full support" motivated its ally Azerbaijan to reignite fighting in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Tuesday in an interview with AFP, ... ( read original story ...)
A Weak Economy Won’t Stop Turkey’s Activist Foreign Policy
A Weak Economy Won’t Stop Turkey’s Activis... Since the resumption of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh last week between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Ankara’s rhetoric has differed dramatically from that of ... ( read original story ...)
India appoints Dinesh Khara as chairman of State Bank of India
The Indian government on Tuesday appointed Dinesh Khara as chairman of the State Bank of India (SBI), the country's top lender, for three years, effective Oct. 7. ( read original story ...)
What Happens When China Leads the World
What kind of superpower will China be? That’s the question of the 21st century. According to American leaders such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, China will be a rapacious authoritarian nightmare, ... ( read original story ...)
China Calls Mike Pompeo criticism ‘Reckless Smearing’ at U.S. Meeting with Asia Security Partners
"We do not accept reckless smearing and groundless accusations against China," a spokesperson for Beijing's embassy in Washington told Newsweek. ( read original story ...)
SE Asia set to overtake China as world’s top notebook PC producer
South-east Asia will produce half of the world’s notebook personal computers in 2030, a Taiwanese government think-tank predicts, with Vietnam and Thailand pegged as the main manufacturing hubs. The ... ( read original story ...)