Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes on Tuesday announced his retirement from football with immediate effect and said he will join the club’s coaching staff.
The 36-year-old made 676 appearances for the club, winning 10 Premier League titles as well as two Champions Leagues and the FA Cup three times.
There had been growing [...]
Who will be next to fall? That’s the question on many French lips after one of President
Nicolas Sarkozy’s ministers resigned over rape accusations amid heated debate over the chronic machismo of Paris politics.
“What if the Georges Tron affair were the first in a long series of aftershocks that will follow the [...]
NATO launched air raids early Tuesday on Tripoli after visiting South African President
Jacob Zuma said that Moamer Kadhafi is “ready” to implement an African Union plan to end the Libyan conflict.
Zuma, representing the African regional group, held talks Monday with the Libyan leader as NATO insisted that Kadhafi’s “reign of terror” is [...]
A UN envoy confirmed Monday that a video allegedly depicting Sri Lanka troops
executing Tamil Tigers was authentic, and that the action were “definitive war crimes”.
“What is reflected in the extended video are crimes of the highest order — definitive war crimes,” said Christof Heyns, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or [...]
Like many who watch television images of Yingluck Shinawatra and Abhisit Vejjajiva on
the campaign trail, read the reports of which party will do what and why, or what is the likely outcome of the July 3 elections (according to the opinion polls), I come back to the same question: What does [...]
ZURICH / Thailand’s Worawi Makudi and three other Fifa executive committee members
accused by former English FA chairman David Triesman of seeking favours for votes have been cleared, soccer’s governing body said on Sunday.
Lord Triesman, who ran both the English FA and its 2018 World Cup bid until last May, told a [...]
Thailand, Cambodia put case for land rights
THE HAGUE : Thailand told the International Court of Justice yesterday Cambodia started the border fighting because it wanted to include Thai territory in its management plan for Preah Vihear temple.
Phnom Penh had never disputed Thailand’s claim to land near the temple. But its stance changed [...]
With Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s announcement of national polls on July 3, Pattaya swings into gear for a heavily contested fight. At the moment, Chonburi’s three MPs are all Democrats, even though the Eastern Seaboard is not traditionally their strongest turf. Democrats are hoping for a clean sweep as in the 2007 general election.
Also contesting [...]
A tourist death in Chiang Mai has alerted other tourist destinations in Thailand to handle bedbugs with care. New Zealander Sarah Carter, 23, died earlier this year, and her travelling companions became seriously ill whilst they were on holiday in the northern Thai resort.
Traces of the insecticide chlorpyfiros, which is used to kill the bugs [...]
The 8105th branch of 7/Eleven was formally opened in North Pattaya by Deputy Mayor Ronakit Ekasingh (2nd from left). The occasion was marked by special discounts along with loyalty cards and not-to-be-repeated treats.
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