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BANGKOK (AFP) – Thailand’s former premier Thaksin Shinawatra was moved from prison to a police hospital yesterday, officials said, a day after he was jailed on his return from 15 years in exile. The 74-year-old, twice Thai prime minister and ousted in a 2006 coup, is suffering from multiple health complaints, officials said, and was […]

VIENTIANE (XINHUA) – A section of the embankment on the Mekong river collapsed in Lao capital Vientiane, with farmlands flooded in low-lying areas though there were no reports of the incident posing a threat to people’s lives. The collapse occurred at Ban Hom village in Hadxaifong district at around 1am local time on Thursday, as […]

Kendra Pierre-Louis BLOOMBERG – It’s getting hot out there. Already this year, people in Thailand, India, Puerto Rico and even Portland, Oregon, have experienced record high temperatures, straining power grids and public health. To deal with the heat, more and more people are turning to an obvious solution: air conditioners. Balmy Seattle, for example, was […]

CNA – The window for depositing or exchanging the discontinued INR2,000 notes in India has now opened. This comes after the Reserve Bank of India announced its withdrawal last week under its clean note policy, where it routinely withdraws old and soiled notes from circulation. It is a move that has stirred some worry, as […]

BUKIT MERTAJAM (BERNAMA) – Police busted a drug trafficking syndicate with the arrest of a husband and wife and their son and the seizure of drugs worth MYR53,265 in two raids in Seberang Perai Tengah on Tuesday. Seberang Perai Tengah District Police Deputy Chief Superintendent Mohd Noor Daud said the first suspect, aged 49, was […]

It was a cool afternoon in a busy commercial district when I saw a person light up a ‘cancer stick’, forcing shoppers nearby to inhale the toxic fume. Being one of his victims, I had the urge to tell him off for breaking the law. But when I finally decided to confront him, it was […]

LIMA (AFP) – Scientists have discovered a new species of lizard in a protected natural area in Cusco, southeastern Peru, national park officials said on Monday. “Otishi National Park reveals a new species of lizard to science,” the National Service of State-Protected Natural Areas said in a statement. The new species, named Proctoporus titans, was […]

AP – A year ago, 65-year-old Chiang Yi-Shu knew nothing about computers. Now, she is a League of Legends player who has just battled in her first-ever esports tournament. Chiang is one of the players on Hungkuang Evergreen Gaming’s team, established this summer. The team, whose members range from 62 to 69 years old, was […]

Azlan Othman The ChildFund Alliance has reported that Brunei Darussalam is at 57th place with a score of 77.8 in inclusivity in the recently published WeWorld Index 2022, which monitors the living conditions of women and children in almost 170 countries, highlighting the barriers that hinder their future. Singapore, 11th in the index, was the […]