The foreign fighters on front lines of Russia-Ukraine War

On February 2, former US marine Peter Reed was killed in Ukraine while evacuating civilians in the frontline city of Bakhmut. Two days later on February 4, the bodies of two British volunteers, Christopher Perry and Andrew Bagshaw, were returned as part of a prisoner swap deal with Russian forces. Their deaths mark some of the latest Western casualties […]Continue Reading

Ukraine plots victory across a complex battlefield

KIEV – One year ago, the world for Ukraine turned upside down. It was around 5am on February 24, 2022, when we heard the first Russian cruise missiles slamming into the outskirts of Kiev. While the threat of a Russian invasion had been growing for months, it was only on February 21 that the purpose of the […]Continue Reading

Prayut most popular for PM in deep South: Nida Poll

Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is most popular of all potential candidates for the post of prime minister among people in the three southern border provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, followed by Wan Muhamad Nor Matha of the Prachachart Party, according to a survey by National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.Continue Reading

Prayut most popular for PM in deep South: poll

Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is more popular than other potential candidates for the post of prime minister among people in the three southern border provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, followed by Wan Muhamad Nor Matha of the Prachachart Party, according to a survey by National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.Continue Reading

Ukrainian fighters at Bakhmut reported encircled

Some 10,000 to 20,000 troops comprising the Ukrainian army in Bakhmut are now trapped.  Reports say that the city is operationally encircled with diminishing chance of a breakout. To the west of Bakhmut is a lot of open country and not much to prevent a Russian advance all the way to the Dnieper River. There is no hard evidence […]Continue Reading

North Korea’s Kim mobilises young labourers in new housing plan amid economic woes

Kim has said the housing projects faces “unprecedentedly harsh challenges”. He mobilised the young labour units, called dolgyeokdae or “Shock Brigade”, in his pet infrastructure initiatives which have often faced lacklustre progress amid resources shortages, including a massive housing campaign in the northern alpine town of Samjiyon. In Sopo, heContinue Reading