An air of sport and competition fills the world as the 2024 Olympics is under way in Paris. Thailand currently ranks 55th on the medal chart with the United States, China and Australia being the top three.
Despite being celebrated as Mexico's top negotiator, a man's skills are put to the ultimate test both professionally and personally in Netflix's latest Mexican action comedy Non Negotiable. Although billed as an action comedy, the film treads familiar ground without offering anything truly innovative within its genre.
From May to November, Sincere Fine Watches builds up to its 70th anniversary celebrations by unveiling, one by one, 12 commemorative timepieces created in partnership with esteemed maisons.
Today is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, a day in which people come together to highlight the plight of indigenous peoples around the globe.
If all that mattered was economic growth, then prime minister Shaikh Hasina would still be in power. She ruled Bangladesh for 15 continuous years during which the country's income per capita more than tripled. Yet she has been overthrown by the very same students who stood to benefit most from her remarkable economic achievements.
The Constitutional Court on Wednesday finally ordered the Move Forward Party (MFP), the winning party of last year's general election, to be dissolved. Eleven executive members face a ten-year ban from politics. The charges and penalty relate to accusations against the MFP's activities and public campaigns to amend Section 112, known as the lese majeste law.
It might look like the replacement of Bangladesh's long-serving prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is a happy ending for a country that seemed to be inexorably sliding towards authoritarianism. After all, Ms Hasina's rule had become so paranoid that she even burned political capital on persecuting Dr Yunus, widely feted for his role in rural development in...
Another dissolution of another election winner should feel old in Thai politics. But what happened to Move Forward Party is not just déjà vu but uncharted territory. Its dissolution fits a recurrent pattern of systematic subversion of democratic institutions in favour of autocratic preferences in disregard of the will of the majority. The Constitutional Court's breakup of Move...
Vitai Ratanakorn, now in his second term as president of Government Savings Bank (GSB), has reiterated the bank's commitment to operating as a social bank, increasing access to the financial system for all people rather than focusing on maximising profits.
Ubon Bio Ethanol Plc (UBE), the largest well-integrated tapioca player in the northeast region of Thailand, reported a net profit of 150 million baht on total revenue of 3.47 billion baht for the first half of this year.
Former glamour model Katie Price was in Turkey for a £10,000 facelift despite there being a warrant out for her arrest after she skipped her £750,0000 bankruptcy hearing
TAYLOR Swift’s Wembley dates will go ahead with beefed-up security after a suicide bomb plot at her concerts in Austria.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Mentalist actor Simon Baker, Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Australian agent-producer Lee-Ann Higgins are taking to adapt Emily Perkins’ novel ‘Lioness.’ The trio have optioned the hot book, which comes from bestselling Aotearoa New Zealand author Perkins and won the recent Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New […]
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