It appears the bicycle lane launch on Sukhumvit 39 last Tuesday didn't get off to the most auspicious of starts. In fact it had to be hastily abandoned after one day. All it succeeded in doing was to create a massive traffic jam leading to gridlock on 17 major roads along with a communal sigh across the city.
Mae Sot, a town on the Thai-Myanmar border in Tak province, is notorious as a hub for cross-border human trafficking and transnational organised crime run by Chinese mafia syndicates. Despite this, government action has been grossly inadequate to combat the problem.
Thai civil society organisations have begun a campaign promoting five recommendations to the government they say would help tackle the discrimination that is still prevalent against vulnerable groups.
EXCLUSIVE: The ultimate 1990s nostalgia band played to a packed out audience of 20,000 at London's O2 Arena this week.
DENISE Van Outen on turning 50, making up with Johnny Vaughan, and why she’s happily single.
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“Streamers want to look good, they want to sound good, and they want to have control over what they do,” she says.
DAVID MOYES will be a target for a dramatic return to Everton after the American takeover.
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Ethan Slater is trying to get used to the attention he’s receiving for both his professional and private lives. He’s making his big-screen acting debut as the lovesick Boq in Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked” opposite Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Baily, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum and Marissa Bode. Last year, Slater and Grande faced scrutiny […]
On Oct. 1, 1942, a Japanese freighter carrying over 1,800 British POWs captured during the Battle of Hong Kong was torpedoed by an American sub. The chaos that followed — wherein members of the Japanese army shot any prisoner aiming to swim to safety while a slew of fishing boats helped in their rescue — […]