BMA to levy land taxes in full
The Bangkok City Administration (BMA) is usually planning to fully gather land and building taxes on land used for agricultural purposes after landlords and property owners allegedly exploited tax cuts to avoid higher taxes, a source said.Continue Reading
Mountain B owner offers full confession
Phongsiri Panprasong, 27, who owns Mountain B pub in Chon Buri’s Sattahip district, provides confessed to each charges so far pressed against him following a deadly blaze at his pub on Friday which has left 15 people dead and 38 others injured.Continue Reading
Batch of Strykers arrives
The Royal Thai Army has obtained its latest batch of 10 US-made Stryker armoured soldires carriers which appeared recently at Laem Chabang port in Chon Buri.Continue Reading
Anne Heche is in stable condition after a fiery car crash at a Los Angeles home
The vehicle was journeying at a high price of speed in order to ran off the road plus collided with a home, Los Angeles police stated.Continue Reading
COVID-19 lockdown turns China’s tourist hotspot Sanya into nightmare for stranded tourists
BEIJING: When Chinese businesswoman Yang Jing was planning this year’s summer holiday in 2021, she chose the tropical southern island of Hainan because of its nigh-perfect COVID-19 track record. The island in the South China Sea recorded just two positive symptomatic COVID-19 cases in the whole of last year. Fast forwardContinue Reading
China to run new drills to Yellow and Bohai seas – Chinese authorities
The moves follow China’s largest ever military drills around Taiwan in the past four days.Continue Reading
Table tennis: Feng Tianwei beats Zeng Jian in all-Singapore women’s singles final at Commonwealth Games
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Feng Tianwei beat compatriot Zeng Jian to take home the gold medal on Sunday (Aug 7) in the table tennis women’s singles event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. World number 16 Feng Tianwei came back from three sets down to beat Feng 4-3 in the all-Singapore final. Zeng startedContinue Reading
How to adapt Jane Austen — and why it’s so hard to get right
It’s an action braver than getting married to for love, riskier than running away with Mr. Wickham and plainer than Anne Elliot to adapt Jane Austen’s beloved, essential publications for the screen.Continue Reading
Lionel Messi scores acrobatic bicycle kick as PSG win season-opener
Lionel Messi scored a sensational bicycle kick to round off Paris Saint-Germain’s 5-0 rout of Clermont in its first match of the new Ligue 1 season on Saturday.Continue Reading
Singapore’s Jessica Tan, Terry Hee book place in Commonwealth Games badminton mixed doubles final
SINGAPORE: Jessica Tan and Terry Hee upset Malaysia’s top seeded pairing of Tan Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing on Sunday (Aug 7) to book their place in the mixed doubles badminton final at Commonwealth Games. At the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, Tan and Hee beat the Malaysians 25-23,Continue Reading