SIEM REAP: Pointing to the murky waters of the Tonle Sap, Si Vorn fights back tears as she recalls her four-year-old daughter dying from diarrhoea after playing in the polluted lake. Her family of 12 is among 100,000 people living in floating houses on Cambodia’s vast inland waterway, and whileContinue Reading
PRACHIN BURI: Local authorities closed a steel melting plant in tambon Hat Nang Kaeo of Kabin Buri district on Sunday after they detected radioactive caesium-137 there.Continue Reading
As jostling superpowers U.S. and China continue to maintain global influence, Southeast Asia’s combined power could put the region in a prime position to rise to the top rungs of political potential, as Australian think tank Lowy Institute’s latest Asia Power Index suggests
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The Pheu Thai Party has recently revised its MP target, aiming to capture 310 House seats in the next polls — an ambitious scale-up from the 250 seats — and form a solid single-party government. The move is seen by academics as a major task and tactic to intensify the campaign and to get rid of the pro-Prayut camp.Continue Reading
The China proposal, a 12-point paper released last month, represents “as much as possible the unity of the world community’s views”, Xi wrote in an article in Rossiiskaya Gazeta, a daily published by the Russian government, according to Reuters’ translation from Russian. “The document serves as a constructive factor inContinue Reading
The United Thai Nation Party (UTN) plans to announce its prime ministerial candidates this Saturday and has finalised the selection of 400 constituency MP candidates, according to key party figures.Continue Reading
In the escalating military conflict between Ukraine and Russia, the Argentine-Italian director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, became the world’s last diplomat though his work circumventing Armageddon at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhia plant in the Russian-occupied city of Enerhodar. Grossi, who like his Argentine-Italian counterpart Pope […]Continue Reading