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Russia expects trade with China to reach $200 billion by 2024 – report

  By Reuters and published by Channel NewsAsia RUSSIA said on Saturday (Apr. 30) it expected commodity flows with China to grow and trade with Beijing to reach $200 billion by 2024, as Moscow faces mounting isolation from the West. China has refused to condemn Russia’s actions in Ukraine and has criticised the unprecedented Western

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Analysis

Analysis: Conspiracy hatched to turn kingmaker into PM 

By Out-Crowd IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN whether a fresh conspiracy to turn Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan into head of government in place of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha following an approaching censure debate/no-confidence vote will ever bear fruit. Prawit who concurrently heads the ruling Palang Pracharath Party is being openly pitted by some coalition

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Local news

Police apologise for using foreign images to illustrate Tangmo Nida’s wound

  POLICE issued an apology for using images found through Google search to illustrate the key wound suffered by late actress Pataratida Patcharawirapong, or Tangmo Nida, who drowned during a speedboat trip in Chao Phraya river in Feb. during a press briefing two days ago, Thansettakij and Naewna newspapers said today (Apr. 28). Netizens reviewed

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Local news

Silpakorn varsity president gets flak for posting photos of air hostesses

  THE PRESIDENT of Silpakorn University said he will be more careful in future after one of a few photos he took of air hostesses with an accompanying message drew strong criticism on social media today (Apr. 27), Matichon newspaper said. Mr. Chaicharn Thavaravej, Silpakorn University’s president, admitted that he was the one who took

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Local news

Another aircraft debris washes up on southern beach prompting MH370 speculation

JUST a month after a mysterious piece of aircraft debris washed up on Nakhon Si Thammarat province’s Pak Phanang beach another puzzling fragment of a large plane landed at a nearby beach raising suspicions that it could belong to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared with 239 people on board during a flight from Kuala

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Health

Phuket panel approves cancelling all Covid screenings from May 1 

PHUKET’S Communicable Disease Committee yesterday (Apr. 26) approved the cancelling of all Covid screenings at all entry channels in keeping with the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) executive committee’s latest resolution, Thansettakij newspaper said. Phuket Governor Narong Woonsiew said the committee had analysed data on Covid situation from the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office

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Local news

Censure debate/no-confidence vote against Prayut delayed until early July

By Thai Newsroom Reporters A CENSURE DEBATE AND NO-CONFIDENCE vote against Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is being delayed until early July now that the opposition bloc has postponed the lodging of a relevant motion until a couple of organic laws of the constitution have been enacted. The Pheu Thai-led opposition bloc today (Apr. 26) resolved

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Local news

Prinn bailed out in new sexual misconduct case filed in Petchaburi

  FORMER DEMOCRAT Party deputy leader Prinn Panichphakdi who has been hit with a string of sexual misconduct and indecent assault accusations was granted temporary release by  Petchaburi provincial court in yet another case today (Apr. 26), Matichon newspaper said. The court granted 200,000 baht bail after Prinn reported to Mueang Phetchaburi police station before

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