Новости за 26.12.2018

AL-ASAD AIR BASE (IRAQ) - President Donald Trump made a surprise lightening trip to Iraq on Wednesday, his first visit to US troops deployed in a war zone since being elected two years ago.

This year will mark the first time the Buddhist monk chiefs of Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Shaolin Temple in China will take part in large-scale Buddhist prayers in Thailand, a religious countdown to the New Year.

Strict inspections of processed pork products from overseas will be kept in place in a bid to stave off an outbreak of African swine fever, especially from China, after several samples of sausages confiscated from Chinese tourists entering Thailand were found to have a viral strain of African swine flu.

WASHINGTON - Global stocks have swooned in December amid a swirl of controversial statements from President Donald Trump and growing unease over the global economy.

Suphan Buri: The autopsy of a two-year-old Myanmar boy who was found dead in a sugarcane field in U Thong district after having gone missing for nine days has yielded no sign of physical assault, a police investigator said.

LEICESTER (UNITED KINGDOM) - Manchester City's bid to retain the Premier League title suffered a major blow as the champions crashed to a shock 2-1 defeat at Leicester on Wednesday.

Starting from next year, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) will revert its academic timetable back to the old system which keeps Thai universities closed during the hot season in April and May.

MOSCOW: Russia on Wednesday said Israel had violated Syria's sovereignty with airstrikes the day before, after Israel and Damascus blamed each other for the hostilities.

JAKARTA: Better, more sophisticated disaster mitigation is urgently needed in Indonesia as around 150 million of its 245 million people live in areas prone to earthquakes and tsunamis, while its early warning system does not work well sometimes because equipment gets stolen, vandalized or broken due to poor maintenance, a government official said Wednesday.

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would deploy its first regiment of hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles next year, saying the move meant his country now had a new type of strategic weapon.

The Commerce Ministry is considering putting medicine and medical treatment on the list of controlled goods and services amid concerns over the high cost of private medical care.

KUMARIKATA, India: Freshly-caught rat is at the top of the holiday menu for crowds flocking to a market in northeastern India that specialises in rodents from local fields.

Thai farmers welcomed a new law allowing cultivation and use of marijuana for medical purposes Wednesday, in an Asian first that promises an economic bonanza but also fears that foreign companies could reap the rewards.

KANCHANABURI: The Thong Pha Phum court said on Wednesday it will rule on Italian-Thai Development president Premchai Karnasuta's black-leopard poaching case in the morning of March 19, 2019.

ROME: A 4.8-magnitude earthquake hit the area around Europe's most active volcano Mount Etna early Wednesday, injuring four people, damaging old buildings and forcing the closure of part of a highway running along the sea, Italian civil protection authorities said.

BURI RAM: An army lieutenant has confessed to robbing a Krungthai Bank branch in Muang district of one million baht, saying he needed money to pay off his debts.

PARIS - Millions of teenagers seeking their 15 seconds of fame are flocking to TikTok, but many of their parents are only now learning about the express-yourself video app -- often to their dismay.

PARIS - Millions of teenagers seeking their 15 seconds of fame are flocking to TikTok, but many of their parents are only now learning about the express-yourself video app -- often to their dismay.

Senior officers at Bangkok's Khok Khram police station face investigation and transfer to inactive posts after a raid by local officials found evidence of drug abuse at a pub that breached closing hours in Bung Kum district.

Mass transit lines continue to drive Bangkok's property market and change the way people work, live and play.

HONG KONG - Japanese stocks recovered slightly on Wednesday after suffering their worst finish in almost two years, but other Asian markets were mixed after President Donald Trump marked Christmas with a renewed attack on the central bank.

HONG KONG: Japanese stocks recovered slightly on Wednesday after suffering their worst finish in almost two years, but other Asian markets were mixed after President Donald Trump marked Christmas with a renewed attack on the central bank.

AYUTTHAYA: Several vehicles overturned on a highway in Phra Nakhon Luang district after crude oil leaked from a tanker carrying 38,000 litres to a refinery in Rayong province early on Wednesday morning.

JAKARTA: Search and rescue teams on Wednesday plucked stranded residents from remote islands and pushed into isolated communities still desperate for aid in the aftermath of a volcano-triggered tsunami confirmed to have killed more than 400 people.

Sentences of 4-50 years in jail have been handed down to 11 people for the embezzlement of hundreds of millions of baht from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL).