Indian High Commission: Man arrested after London protest
Two security guards were injured after a crowd gathered to protest outside the building in London.Continue Reading
Safety pin: A tiny tool Indian women use to fight sexual harassment
Almost every day women in India face sexual harassment in public places. So how do they deal with it?Continue Reading
Pheu Thai ups stakes in race
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
China’s proposal on Ukraine reflects unity of global views: Xi Jinping
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
UTN to unveil PM candidates this week
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
The last diplomat – IAEA’s Rafael Mariano Grossi
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
PM backs island’s Expo bid
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Sunday decided upon an Andaman agenda that includes supporting Phuket’s bid to host an international expo in 2028 with the potential to generate 40 billion baht.Continue Reading
Anutin denies asking Prawit to aid minister
Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Sunday dismissed rumours that he had lobbied for Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon to help suspended transport minister Saksayam Chidchob with his share concealment case.Continue Reading
Commentary: Plastic bags will finally be charged in Singapore. What’s next?
While the 5-cent charge is an encouraging step, plastic bags are only one of the many products that contribute to waste. Consumer behaviour must also be changed more systematically, says Sumit Agarwal of NUS Business School.Continue Reading
Xi Putin meeting: What to expect from China-Russia talks
Our correspondents Steve Rosenberg and Stephen McDonell tell us what to expect from the talks.Continue Reading