Police allege that a trusted assistant colluded with a senior Bangkok revenue offical in demanding bribes from businesses in Ratchathewi district, with the investigation now extended as far back as 2017.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Internet service provider ViewQwest reported a service outage affecting its customers across several areas in Singapore on Tuesday (Apr 11). Data provided by the DownDetector website showed a surge in outage reports made at about 2pm. A public Facebook group for ViewQwest customers also showed users reporting outages inContinue Reading
JOHOR BAHRU: Following news that an elderly couple in Johor had died after consuming pufferfish, an official from the state’s fisheries department said the fish is often thrown back out to sea by fishermen when caught. “Local fishermen will throw it back into the sea if the fish is caughtContinue Reading
The United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan has launched a review of its operations and asked all Afghan staff not to come to work at least until May after the Taliban administration barred its women staff from working, it said in a statement on Tuesday (Apr 11). The United Nations saidContinue Reading
If you think of the global economy as a giant chess match, China’s Xi Jinping now seems a few moves ahead of US President Joe Biden. That’s a plausible take on China’s leader hosting French President Emmanuel Macron in Beijing in recent days. Tesla billionaire Elon Musk was in China to double down on the […]Continue Reading
The military has increasingly used air strikes to crush the resistance since they seized power in 2021.Continue Reading
BEIJING: Travel bookings in China have recovered to pre-pandemic levels after being suppressed last year by zero-COVID policies, and are set to boom for the upcoming May Day holiday, according to data from popular booking apps. By Apr 6, orders of domestic travel for the holiday had reached pre COVID-19Continue Reading
A police raid on a building in downtown Bangkokhas exposed a Chinese woman with Thai citizenship by marriage and a long history of alleged involvement in fraud, human trafficking, surrogacy and document forgery.Continue Reading
The treatment of Ya Ya at Memphis Zoo has often been scrutinised – but unfairly, the zoo maintains.Continue Reading
BEIJING: Travel bookings in China have recovered to pre-pandemic levels after being suppressed last year by zero-COVID policies, and are set to boom for the upcoming May Day holiday, according to data from popular booking apps. By Apr 6, orders of domestic travel for the holiday had reached pre COVID-19Continue Reading