Новости за 28.09.2021

About 100 anti-government protesters, including many youths, on Tuesday evening tried in vain to break through a police barricade in the latest daily evening demonstration in Bangkok to demand the ouster of the government.

MANILA: A bill to raise the minimum age of sexual consent in the Philippines from 12 to 16 has moved closer towards becoming law, after senators approved it in its final reading.

NARATHIWAT: Two policemen were killed and four others injured when a bomb exploded under a road in Chanae district of this southern province on Tuesday afternoon.

A paramotoring enthusiast in northern Thailand has taken to the skies to help deliver urgently need supplies to people cut off by floods.

KABUL: The Taliban said on Tuesday they will temporarily adopt a 1964 constitution that granted women the right to vote but eliminate any elements they disagree with.

The Royal Irrigation Department (RID) will increase the discharge rate from the Chao Phraya Dam to make room for the increasing volume of runoff from the North.

The cabinet resolved on Tuesday to extend the Special Tourist Visa (STV) programme for one year until Sept 30 next year to woo well-to-do visitors.

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved new borrowing of 1.34 trillion baht in the 2022 fiscal year starting in October, government officials said.

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia on Tuesday raised the minimum monthly wage for workers in its key textiles and footwear industry by $2 to $194, effective January next year, shy of a $12 rise sought by major unions.

Twenty-six protesters were detained for breaches of the emergency decree and other laws on Monday, when Thalufah and Thalugaz groups rallied at different spots in Bangkok, Metropolitan Police spokesman Pol Maj Gen Piya Tawichai said on Tuesday.

A couple were arrested for selling firearms online and 18 guns, ammunition and other items seized during a police raid on a house in Bangkok’s Bang Khae district on Tuesday.

Foreign visitors to Thailand are expected at about 280,000 this year, down from half a million projected earlier, a private tourism group said on Tuesday, as the country suffers a prolonged coronavirus outbreak.

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Storm Dianmu left six people dead in its wake, with two others missing, and caused flooding in 30 provinces since Sept 23.

Storm Dianmu left six people dead in its wake, with two others missing, and caused flooding in 30 provinces since Sept 23.

SONGKHLA: A fugitive army ranger has surrendered to face charges of shooting dead his wife and mother-in-law at their home in Saba Yoi district on Thursday night.

Gen Supot Malaniyom, chief-of-staff of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, has been appointed secretary-general of the National Security Council (NSC) by royal command published in the Royal Gazette on Tuesday.

SHANGHAI: As a severe power crunch roils China's northeastern industrial heartland, senior officials face mounting pressure from alarmed citizens to ramp up coal imports thick and fast in order to keep lights on, factories open and even water supplies flowing.

COPENHAGEN: A 1970 tape of John Lennon singing a hitherto unheard song called "Radio Peace" and expressing frustration at his Beatles image to a group of Danish schoolboys goes under the hammer on Tuesday in Copenhagen.

KHON KAEN: Mountain runoff flooded many areas of Mancha Khiri district on Tuesday after hours of heavy rain overnight, with more flooding expected in the general area over the next few days.

KANCHANABURI: An earthquake of magnitude 3.2, centred in Sri Sawat district, was recorded by seismologists early on Tuesday morning.

SUKHOTHAI: The floodwater that has inundated this former capital city for the past few days was gradually receding on Tuesday, as people struggled to recover from what is said to be the worst flooding in 10 years.

SEOUL: Nuclear-armed North Korea fired what appeared to be a short-range ballistic missile into the sea on Tuesday, the South's military said, as Pyongyang's UN ambassador insisted it had an undeniable right to test its weapons.

A total of eighty-two companies and individuals are interested in setting up an internal compliance programme (ICP) scheme to prevent trade activities pertaining to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) under the Trade Controls on Weapons of Mass Destruction Related Items Act (TCWMD Act).

KANCHANABURI: Thirteen Myanmar job seekers were arrested for illegal entry after they crossed the border into Thailand in Muang district on Monday.