Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT) is planning large new investments in India’s data processing, renewable energy and communications infrastructure. It is just the latest example of the Japan-India cooperation that is redrawing the economic map of Asia at the same time it affects security equations in the Indo-Pacific. “We will invest US$500 million annually for […]Continue Reading
The University of New South Wales, which welcomed a quarter of its students from China until 2020, said its on-campus accommodation was full and it was refurbishing university apartments to rent to foreign students. A spokesperson for Sydney University, also with a fourth of its students coming from China, saidContinue Reading
HONG KONG: Hong Kong police began searching a landfill on Tuesday (Feb 28) for evidence related to the grisly killing of model Abby Choi, whose dismembered body parts were found in a refrigerator and pots. Ex-husband Alex Kwong, his father Kwong Kau and his brother Anthony Kwong were charged with murderContinue Reading
The Pheu Thai Party has pledged to raise the minimum monthly wage for salaried employees to 25,000 baht by 2027 as part of efforts to woo voters ahead of the general election.Continue Reading
City Hall will pitch to those political parties canvassing for votes the idea of integrating Bangkok Port in Klong Toey with the Laem Chabang deep-sea port in Chon Buri to lessen problems in the capital, including floods and air pollution.Continue Reading
Authorities are looking at cruise ships to support the recovery of the tourism sector, which will also be boosted by a new plan to cooperate with Netflix in launching a creative travel guide to attractive locations featured in movies, a government spokesman said yesterday.Continue Reading
The Narcotic Suppression Bureau (NSB) has raided 20 locations in the North and Central regions, arrested four suspects and seized about 100 million baht worth of assets in a crackdown on three major drug networks.Continue Reading
An initial sum of 72.27 million baht will soon be disbursed to turn Phuket into a world-class health tourism hub, the Ministry of Public Health revealed yesterday.Continue Reading
CHON BURI: A Finnish man, 58, was found dead with his throat cut at his house in Sattahip district yesterday morning.Continue Reading
The Criminal Court yesterday handed down a 10-year jail sentence to Apirat Jayankura Na Ayudhya, a close aide of the late abbot of Wat Bowon Niwet, for forgery to embezzle 80 million baht from the temple’s accounts.Continue Reading