The Hatyai Songkhla Hotels Association is urging the government to help promote Ban Dan Nok in Sadao district as a nightspot. (NNT photo) The Hatyai Songkhla Hotels Association is urging local authorities to approve a night entertainment strip in Ban Dan Nok, Sadao district of Songkhla, […]
Day: November 16, 2022
Anutin calls for patience as debate over hemp bill drags on
Anutin: Wait for ‘final say’ A new announcement categorising flowers or buds of the cannabis plant as “controlled herbs” is a temporary measure to curb the proliferation of recreational cannabis use while the deliberation of the bill on cannabis and hemp continues to drag on, […]
Austrian Government Adopts New Three-Year Program for Development Policy
According to the Austrian Foreign Ministry, the new three-year program provides development policy responses to global challenges. Austria’s international solidarity is also demonstrated by the fact that global challenges, as well as crises, are now better taken into account in the thematic focus. For example, […]
Austria Awards State Prize for Innovation
We are currently experiencing several global and local crises. After the pandemic, we are now facing challenges in energy, inflation and supply chains. Innovation is a central key to the solution here. “The State Prize for Innovation recognizes outstanding achievements by companies in this area […]
US Senate bill to protect same-sex marriage clears key hurdle
A bill safeguarding federal recognition of same-sex marriage has cleared a procedural hurdle in the US Senate amid concerns that the US Supreme Court could undermine such rights in the future. Fifty Democrats and 12 Republicans on Wednesday voted in favour of limiting debate on […]
US Congress considers seating Native American tribal delegate
The United States Congress is exploring the possibility of honouring a promise made nearly 200 years ago: seating a delegate from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, a Native American tribe, in the US legislature. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin testified on Wednesday before a […]
US slaps sanctions on Iranian media members
The United States has sanctioned six senior members of Iranian state-run media, accusing them of broadcasting forced confessions to undermine the protests roiling Iran. In a statement on Wednesday, the US Treasury Department said Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) recently produced and broadcast “interviews […]
Dutch judges to deliver MH17 trial verdicts: Five things to know
On July 17, 2014, a Thursday, MH17 carrier Boeing 777 took off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and was scheduled to land in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur the next day. But the doomed flight was gunned down midair over Ukraine’s Donetsk region, held by Russia-backed separatists. […]
‘A hard time’: A Nigerian bus driver’s monthly costs
What’s your money worth? A new series from the front line of the cost of living crisis, where people who have been hit hard share their monthly expenses. Name: Muyideen Olamilekan Jimoh Age: 40 Occupation: Self-employed commercial bus driver Lives with: Wife Falilat (37) and sons […]
Senate Democrats push to protect same-sex marriage in US
Democrats in the US Senate are gearing up for a vote on a bill that seeks to protect same-sex and interracial marriage in the United States – currently federally protected rights that some argue could be under threat in the wake of the Supreme Court’s […]