SINGAPORE: A club hostess who accepted a lift from a drunk customer sued him after they got into a traffic accident on an expressway, leaving her with injuries but him unscathed. In a judgment issued by a Magistrate’s Court on Friday (Oct 7), a judge found the driver 75 perContinue Reading
Their Majesties the King and Queen will visit victims of Thursday’s preschool massacre in Nong Bua Lam Phu and Udon Thani provinces on Friday night, government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri said.Continue Reading
BANGKOK – Children lay napping after eating lunch on a rainy day in their childcare center in northeast Thailand, but their dreams soon became the gruesome nightmare of Thailand’s deadliest mass killing of civilians by a lone gunman. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha reportedly plans to fly to the small town on Friday (October 7) to […]
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Concert organiser AEG Presents Asia posted on social media to say the remaining shows will be moved to 2023.Continue Reading
An ex-police officer killed at least 37 people at a childcare centre before killing himself and his family.Continue Reading
An additional 21 Malaysians rescued from human traffickers in Cambodia and Laos returned home on Oct 6, as the government intensified efforts to locate scam victims reported missing abroad. Read full storyContinue Reading
Vague laws and cultural norms have stopped sex toys from becoming popular in Cambodia. But future thinking entrepreneurs are now meeting a new wave of demand for novelty items amid shifting social norms
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NONG BUA LAM PHU: Weeping, grief-stricken families gathered on Friday outside the preschool in Na Klang district where a former policeman murdered nearly two dozen children in one of Thailand’s worst mass killings.Continue Reading
There is hardly a conflictual environment in the Middle East that is not subject to foreign input. And among these, the Gaza conundrum stands out as one of the prime examples. The Gaza conundrum in essence has two components. The first is that the territory is not self-sufficient. With some 80% of its population aid-dependent, […]
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SINGAPORE: National marathoner Soh Rui Yong on Thursday (Oct 6) issued his second apology to the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) in less than a year over his past statements and disagreements with the council. In the letter posted on Soh’s Facebook page, he wrote that he wishes to “putContinue Reading