Новости за 18.01.2020

NAY PYI TAW: Facebook apologised Saturday for a distasteful mistranslation of Chinese President Xi Jinping's name from Burmese language posts during his much-touted visit to Myanmar.

Future Forward Party MPs have been urged to go to a “new home” if the Constitutional Court disbands it in a ruling on Tuesday

SINGAPORE: Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond will have his work cut out for him on Sunday if he wants to defend his Singapore Open title after Matt Kuchar went on a birdie binge to take over the lead.

JAKARTA: Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon will take on Carolina Marin of Spain on Sunday in the final of the US$400,000 Indonesia Masters badminton tournament in Jakarta.

Divers are expected to be called back on Sunday to search for more bodies after finding almost 300 bones earlier in a pond at the Bangkok home of a man charged with murdering a young woman and concealing her corpse.

The ultraroyalist owner of a private hospital has backtracked on a plan to stage a run to “save the king” but is continuing his campaign to purge his hospital of anyone who does not share his beliefs, including patients.

BEIJING: Global pharmaceutical majors and generic drugmakers have slashed the prices of some of their off-patent products by an average of 53% in the latest bidding round under China’s national bulk-buying programme.

NAY PYI TAW: China and Myanmar signed dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the country, as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbour increasingly isolated by the West.

NAN: Eight people were hurt, one seriously, when a tour bus carrying cyclists to Nan skidded into a mountain slope at a curve in Muang district on Saturday.

Bangkok and nearby provinces remained blanketed in smog, with PM2.5 dust exceeding safe levels at 37 air-quality monitoring stations on Saturday morning.

HONG KONG: The true scale of the outbreak of a mysterious Sars-like virus in China is likely far bigger than officially reported, scientists have warned, as countries ramp up measures to prevent the disease from spreading.

A quick look back at some of the week's top stories in the Bangkok Post.

Buddhists have been invited to join mass meditation ceremonies countrywide to mark the 150th birthday of Phra Ajarn Mun Bhuridatta Mahathera, who was named by Unesco as one its world Eminent Personalities for his contributions to promoting peace.

The Department of Corrections is looking to file charges against the administrator of the "Anny Anny Khon Thai Hua Jai Pi Tak Put" (Anny Anny with A Heart to Protect Buddhism) Facebook page, for disseminating fake news.

The Ministry of Public Health has implemented the highest level of precautionary measures at airports and hospitals across the country to minimise the possibility of a disease outbreak in response to the surge in Chinese tourists expected to arrive to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Thailand coach Akira Nishino will be hoping for a deja vu from more than two decades ago when the War Elephants square off against mighty Saudi Arabia in the AFC U23 Championship quarter-finals on Saturday.

Ratchanok Intanon will take on Wang Zhiyi in the women's singles semi-finals of the US$400,000 Indonesia Masters in Jakarta on Saturday.

The World Bank has warned that Thailand's average annual economic growth will be stuck below 3% if there is no significant increase in investment and productivity growth.

For Sena Development Plc, Kessara Thanyalakpark seems to embody the company from a customer perspective. She always appears in advertisements for Sena's real estate projects and represents the company as a property expert.

Some 8.9 billion baht available from the budget integration will be allocated to support grassroots economic development in fiscal 2021.

Almost 300 bones were retrieved on Friday from a pond near the home of a 40-year-old man who was charged last week with murdering his 22-year-old girlfriend and concealing her corpse.

PARIS: French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier shocked the fashion world Friday by saying his next Paris haute couture show will be his last.

Central Retail Corporation Plc (CRC), Thailand's largest retailer and the retail arm of Central Group, has set its initial public offering (IPO) price range at 40 to 43 baht per share, which will possibly become the country's biggest-ever fund-raising deal worth up to 72.7 billion baht.

The surprise departure of Korn Chatikavanij from the Democrats deals a heavy blow to the oldest political party which was already struggling in an unfavourable political atmosphere. The bold move, however, gives the prominent politician a new opportunity with speculation rife he is about to found a new party. Political observers also foresee the possibility of Mr Korn becoming a new choice for PM...

As PM2.5 fine dust particles continue to blanket Bangkok, the government has begun to toy with the idea of banning private cars from city roads on certain days of the week -- a harsh-yet-successful measure practised in many major cities around the world to curb air pollution.