Birmingham City owner Carson Yeung, a one-time hairdresser turned football tycoon,
appeared in court Thursday charged with money-laundering offences after his arrest by Hong Kong police.
A sombre-looking Yeung, 51, was driven to the magistrates court in a police van and appeared before a judge, who was deciding on bail conditions for the [...]
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard offered the live cattle industry a Aus$30 million
($US32 million) lifeline Thursday as a ban on exports to Indonesia entered its fourth week.
The trade was suspended in early June after a documentary showing graphic brutality in Indonesian abattoirs sparked an angry backlash in Australia, which supplies about [...]
Lobsters without shells and a small shark that bulks up with water to scare off predators
are among hundreds of potential new species found in the Philippines, according to a US-led biodiversity survey.
The California Academy of Sciences said it discovered more than 300 previously unknown animals and plants during a recent 42-day marine [...]
WHC decision ‘is not Cambodia’s concern’
The government has brushed off a challenge by Cambodia that it formally withdraw from the World Heritage Committee, while denying it was playing up the issue for political gain.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday said Cambodia should stop interfering in Thai affairs, after its leader Hun Sen stepped [...]
Academic claims issue being used to win votes
Thailand’s controversial decision to withdraw from the World Heritage Convention is turning into an election issue that threatens to backfire on Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti, a leading academic says.
Surachart Bamrungsuk, a political science lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, yesterday said the listing [...]
Pheu Thai red shirts a target of campaign
The senator-led Siam Samakkee group has urged people not to vote for candidates who
allegedly played a role in the Bangkok arson attacks last year, but is still being careful to appear neutral.
Its call put the spotlight on some Pheu Thai party-list candidates who were red [...]
Phii Ta Khon or Ghost Festival may be perceived as scary, however, it is very misleading. The festival is held annually between the months of March and July, in Dan Sai district, Loei province in northeastern Thailand. It normally takes place on the Saturday and Sunday following the first full moon during the 6th month [...]
by Derek Franklin
The Pattaya Sports Club has generously supported local charities for many years. The tireless dedication of its members has improved the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of local children.
The Father Ray Foundation recently approached the Pattaya Sports Club to request funding to the value of 130,000 baht to cover the costs of [...]
Dodge City marshal Matt Dillon aka actor James Arness has died from natural causes aged 88 at his home in Los Angeles. Arness shot to fame in everybody’s favourite long running TV western, Gunsmoke, from 1955 to 1975.
Arness was born James King Aurness in the US state of Minneapolis in 1923 and was the older [...]
by Dan Nicholson
Summer school is a great opportunity for children to get out of the house in the long Summer holidays, revisit some of the work they have done earlier in the year, keep their minds in ‘learning mode’ or to familiarise themselves with a new school setting.
For the youngest members of the school community [...]
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