Specialized Expo 2028 booth at the Apec Summit which Thailand hosted in 2022. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb) Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Sunday decided upon an Andaman agenda that includes supporting Phuket’s bid to host an international expo in 2028 with the potential to generate 40 […]
The promise of online learning is vast, but we must address the root causes of the paradox currently facing the medium. It is growing, but the experience is so poor that people will only use it if they have no alternative. The fact is, we […]
Twenty years ago, life in Iraq changed forever. United States and British military forces rolled into the country – unleashing a wave of destruction that would topple President Saddam Hussein. It would also kill and maim hundreds of thousands of people. How has the war […]
Switzerland’s largest bank, UBS, has agreed to buy Credit Suisse for 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.24bn), officials from the banks have said, in a deal designed to contain a widening crisis of confidence in global finance. The agreement, announced late on Sunday, includes 100 billion […]
Iraq and Iran have signed a border security agreement, a move Iraqi officials say is aimed primarily at tightening the frontier with Iraq’s Kurdish region, where Tehran says Kurdish armed groups pose a threat to its security. Sunday’s joint security agreement includes coordination in “protecting […]
Israeli and Palestinian officials have agreed at a meeting in Egypt to take steps to lower tensions ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The talks in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday stressed the need to prevent any disruptive […]
Market-X took place in the context of the recently launched implementation phase of Gaia-X, which aims to support digitalization across industries in Europe. The aim was to inform participants about the latest trends and developments in cloud computing, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things […]
Israel’s ambulance and rescue service said a 30-year-old man was wounded when the vehicle he was travelling in came under fire in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday. The Israeli military said it received a report of a “shooting incident” in Huwara, a town that […]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has favourably received an invitation from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to visit the kingdom following the reconciliation deal between the two countries, an Iranian official has said. “In a letter to President Raisi … the King of Saudi Arabia welcomed the […]
The governor of Lagos has easily won re-election in low-turnout local voting, figures have shown, marking a victory for Nigeria’s ruling party just weeks after the commercial capital backed the opposition in a disputed presidential election. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), incumbent […]
