Street cart vendors on a pavement in front of CentralWorld, Ratchadamri Road, are an important part of the local economy. City Hall wants to allocate hawkers and street vendors special centres in the capital. Wichan Charoenkiatpakul The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to relocate street vendors […]
Electricity towers and power lines are seen at Chatuchak station. A new higher power tariff is to be postponed following an intervention by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to curb rising living costs, says a source at the Energy Ministry. The higher tariff was due to […]
Harare, Zimbabwe – Four years ago, Tawanda Kasirori imagined a new Zimbabwe he would live in – a thriving economy and a blossoming democracy. Today, none of that has happened and only a flicker of that hope remains, even as the 2023 presidential elections beckon. […]
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed in a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan, United States officials have said. Al-Zawahiri was killed over the weekend in what would be the biggest blow to the group since its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. […]
The Midwestern state of Kansas is set to vote on whether to repeal abortion protections from its constitution in an early test of United States public opinion after the country’s top court revoked the federal protection of the procedure. The vote on Tuesday comes more […]
President Vladimir Putin has announced his planned expansion of Russia’s naval power, singling out the United States as the biggest obstacle. Putin signed a new naval doctrine on Sunday, accusing Washington of trying to dominate the world’s oceans. The 55-page document states that NATO’s movements […]
Nuclear threats emanating from the war in Ukraine as well as in Asia and the Middle East have put the world “one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation”, the United Nations secretary-general said. At the UN on Monday, Antonio Guterres issued the dire warning at the […]
Torrential flooding in the US state of Kentucky has now killed 35 people, including at least four children. Rain continues to pound the region as search-and-rescue teams push forward with the grim task of searching for the missing. Speaking on Monday, Governor Andy Beshear announced […]
The Philippines has no plan to rejoin the International Criminal Court (ICC), said newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, a decision that supports his predecessor’s stance but denies the demands of human rights activists. Former President Rodrigo Duterte withdrew the Philippines from The Hague-based court […]
Tehran, Iran – Iran has begun the process of feeding gas into cascades of new centrifuges as its top diplomat proposed a new round of negotiations in Vienna to restore the country’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organisation […]
