A GROUP of Italian youths, identified as students, who brawled with a Thai woman on Skytrain after she asked them to quieten down recorded a video clip expressing regret for the incident, admitting that money cannot buy manners, and are being immediately deported, Amarin TV said this afternoon (July 25). The Italian embassy’s Facebook
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Italian embassy Facebook page flooded with comments after Skytrain fracas
AFTER a group of Italian youths brawled with a Thai woman on BTS Skytrain yesterday (July 24) when she asked them to stop being so noisy as they were disturbing other passengers, by nightfall comments by Thai netizens had flooded the Italian embassy Facebook page while another Facebook user posted an open letter to
Read moreItaly probes claims of ‘sniper safaris’ in Sarajevo during 1990s siege
By AFP and published by India Today PROSECUTORS in Italy are investigating possible Italian snipers who may have paid the Bosnian Serb army during the 1990s siege of Sarajevo to be allowed to shoot civilians for sport, local media reported. According to La Repubblica daily, the investigation opened by Milan prosecutor Alessandro Gobbis for
Read moreItalian company keen on installing cable car line to Phu Kradueng mountaintop
PRIME MINISTER Srettha Thavisin said during his visit to Italy that the Italian company Leitner Ropeways has offered to both sell cable cars and string them to the top of a mountain at Phu Kradueng National Park with their system using clean energy thus environmentally friendly, Naewna and Thai Rath newspaper said today (May
Read moreG7 holds ‘strategic’ talks in climate hotspot Italy
By AFP and published by CNA Turin, Italy – G7 ministers meet for environment and climate change talks in Turin today (Apr. 29), with experts urging the highly industrialised countries to use their political clout, wealth and technologies to end fossil fuel use. The Group of Seven meeting in the northern Italian city is
Read moreItalian man dies in fall from Skytrain station
A YOUNG ITALIAN MAN fell to his death from BTS Sanam Pao station in Phaya Thai district at 8 a.m. this morning (Nov. 14) with police rushing to contact the Italian embassy and his family about his demise, TV Channel 7 said. Phaya Thai police station was alerted by a local resident that a
Read moreMilan records hottest day since 1763
By Reuters and published by CNA Rome – Italy’s northern city of Milan registered a new record high average daily temperature of 33 degrees Celsius on Wednesday (Aug. 23) as a heatwave that began around mid-August reached its peak, the regional environmental protection agency (ARPA) said on Friday. It was the hottest day since
Read moreTravel chaos as hundreds of flights across Italy cancelled amid air transport strike
By AP and published by Yahoo!News Rome – Hundreds of flights across Italy were cancelled on Saturday, forcing travellers at the peak of tourist season to make alternate plans, after air transport unions went ahead with a planned work stoppage two days following a train strike that paralysed rail service. Summertime in Italy is
Read moreMilan reports 50% of passengers on China flights have Covid
By Bloomberg and published by Yahoo!News Milan, Italy – Italian health authorities will begin testing all arrivals from China for Covid after almost half of the passengers on two flights to Milan were found to have the virus. They are also sequencing the Milan tests to see if there are new variants, the Health Ministry
Read moreItalian police use water cannon to break up health pass protest at port
By Reuters and published by Channel NewsAsia Trieste, Italy – Italian police used water cannons and tear gas today (Oct. 18) to clear a sit-in at the port of Trieste, where opponents of the government’s mandatory Covid-19 health pass have tried to block access. The north-eastern port has been the focal point of protest
Read moreSix years a slave: Indian farm workers exploited in Italy
By AFP, published by The Straits Times Sabaudia, Italy – When Mr Balbir Singh refers to his ordeal, he uses the Italian word “macello”, which roughly translates as “mess” – but it is hardly enough to convey what the migrant Indian farm worker has endured. For six years, he lived in what can only
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