Thailand’s USD13 billion plan could woo 65 million tourists yearly

Thailand is already struggling to cope with the environmental impact of a tourism boom that’s expected to lure 40 million visitors this year. The influx

Corporate Bits | Sands china celebrates 15 years with long-serving employees

The company’s president Dr. Wilfred Wong presented each employee with an “Honourable Service Award” – a 15th anniversary souvenir box containing an anniversary certificate, special edition pin, and

Corporate Bits | City of dreams celebrates first anniversary of alain ducasse at morpheus

Two-Michelin-starred restaurant Alain Ducasse at Morpheus, City of Dreams, is celebrating its first anniversary. To commemorate its first year of operations, it has launched the “Le Premier” menu.

ASEAN leaders call for restraint amid sea row, US-China rift

Southeast Asian leaders yesterday pressed their call for self-restraint in the disputed South China Sea and renewed their alarm over the U.S.-China trade war, with one

Qu Dongyu elected as new FAO general director

Qu Dongyu, China’s deputy agricultural minister, was elected yesterday as the new director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the first person from a Communist

China-N. Korea | Xi pushes economic reform at summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping offered encouragement for North Korea’s focus on economic development in a speech in Pyongyang, turning to a topic Beijing has long

US blacklists 5 Chinese groups working in supercomputing

The United States is blacklisting five Chinese organizations involved in supercomputing with military-related applications, citing national security as justification for denying its Asian geopolitical rival access

North Korea | Pyongyang says Kim received ‘excellent’ letter from Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump sent North Korean leader Kim Jong Un an “excellent” letter, the North’s state-run news agency reported yesterday, quoting Kim as saying

Indonesia | Underage fighters are drawn into conflict

The long-simmering armed conflict between Indonesia’s military and Papuans seeking independence includes indigenous teenagers and boys who appear barely adolescent, The Associated Press has found, highlighting

Ethiopia | Government says coup attempt thwarted, military chief killed

Ethiopia’s government foiled a coup attempt in a region north of the capital, Addis Ababa, and the country’s military chief was shot dead, the prime minister said

Offbeat | Bear enters Montana home, settles in for nap in closet

Authorities say a black bear somehow locked itself inside a Montana home and then nestled onto a closet shelf that wasn’t too hard, wasn’t too soft, but just

This Day in History | 1983 – US astronaut Sally Ride returns

America’s first woman in space has returned safely to Earth in the Challenger space shuttle after a successful six-day flight. Sally Ride, aged 32, captured the media’s

Football | Germany tops Nigeria, reaches Women’s World Cup quarters

GERMANY 3, NIGERIA 0 Alexandra Popp had just scored a go-ahead goal against Nigeria in her 100th international appearance when Japanese referee Yoshimi Yamashita signaled for a

Tennis | Murray on verge of completing remarkable return at Queen’s

Andy Murray is on the verge of completing a remarkable return after hip surgery. The three-time Grand Slam champion and Feliciano Lopez completed a busy

World briefs

THAILAND Southeast Asian leaders yesterday pressed their call for self-restraint in the disputed South China Sea and renewed their alarm over the U.S.-China trade war, with one

The Buzz | Michael Jackson’s popularity endures, even after new scandal

Despite Michael Jackson’s depiction as a child molester in the HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland” earlier this year, the negative publicity hasn’t greatly diminished the King of

Thailand’s Wild Boars mark year since going missing in cave

When the 12 young boys and their soccer coach walked into a cave complex in northern Thailand a year ago yesterday, they didn’t know their lives

Rear Window | Back to basics

Two million Hong Kong residents felt obliged to go down to Admiralty to fight against a fishy extradition bill, deemed an “evil law” by the freshly released Occupy

Monday, June 24, 2019 – edition no. 3317

* O Lam touted as possible Alexis Tam successor * Jaime Carion and family assets seized * Growth forecast slashed 3.5 percentage points * Protesters end overnight police siege – peacefully   DOWNLOAD

Editorial | Carrie on

The deadline imposed by legislators and activists for Hong Kong’s government to meet demands for the withdrawal of the controversial extradition legislation and for Carrie Lam to step down

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