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A powerful typhoon began to lash southern Japan on Sunday, with officials warning it could bring record rainfall and winds strong enough to snap power line poles and flip cars.Typhoon Haishen, categorised as “large” and “extremely strong”, has prompted…
Police General Veerachai Songmetta has been removed from his post as the deputy national police chief. The move is retroactive to July 29th and is for an alleged gross disciplinary violation.Veerachai’s removal was mentioned in an announcement by the P…
Thailand’s Central Administrative Court has ordered former Director-General of the Pollution Control Department, Pakit Kiravanich, and two former senior officials of the same department, to pay the department about 10.5 billion baht in compensation for…
?Both the suspect in the slaying of the right-wing protester in Portland, Oregon last weekend and the victim had handguns when their confrontation started after dueling street demonstrations, according to court documents made public Friday.The document…
COVID-19 ResponseYANGON, 28 August 2020 – Amid an increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases in Rakhine State, a total of 82 metric tonnes of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth US$2.8 million arrived this week in Yangon. The supplies were delivered in…
Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan said Saturday that the call, by the so-called “bad students”, that he should resign if he fails to meet all their demands, amounts to harassment.A group of high-school students rallied in front of the Education Min…