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SET-listed Sena Development expects to shift focus to low-rise properties, the company's core competency, and away from expensive high-rise condos in response to a likely economic slowdown this year.

Kanchanaburi's Lam Khlong Ngu National Park opens two of its best attractions -- Sao Hin and Nok Nang Aen caves -- for roughly two months a year. In 2020, the period runs from Feb 29 to May 4.

First, the number of coronavirus-infected cases in China was only 27 when first reported at the end of December. Then, only three days later, the number rose to 44, before hitting 59 two days after that.

The third edition of the Bangkok Edge festival returns on Saturday with over 50 activities including talks, workshops, music performances, film screenings, book launches, exhibitions and more. The event, held at Chakrabongse Villas on Maharaj Road and Museum Siam on Sanam Chai Road, ends on Feb 2. The festival is directed by River Books' publisher and editor Narisa Chakrabongse.

Wrinkles are visible earlier on city girls, and the extent of urban ageing was extensively investigated by YSL Beauty Scientific Advisory Board.

To mark the 145th anniversary of Wattana Wittaya Academy, Thailand's oldest all-girls school, the Wattana Chorus will stage a celebratory concert titled "Lao Khan Prasan Sieng Wattana" ("Telling Tales Of The Wattana Chorus") on Feb 7 in the school's auditorium.

When we invoke the term "Jazz Age", we tend to think of the US in the 1920s and 1930s. But while its impact was felt most keenly Stateside, this major cultural movement was a global phenomenon.

Through the ultra-fine dust pollution and coronavirus outbreak, our "Thai-style" administration has been put to the test. The results are disappointing.

In an emergency, the good thing about a dictatorship is that it can respond very fast. The bad thing is that it won't respond at all until the dictator-in-chief says that it should. All the little dictators who flourish in this sort of system won't risk their positions by passing bad news up the line until the risk of being blamed for delay outweighs the risk of being blamed for the emergency in...

Whenever the Kra Canal emerges as a news headline, two standard reactions occur. First of all, there is a very strong but familiar exclamation of "again" or aw-eik-leu and a revitalised sense of disbelief that the time has actually come once more for another debate about the great isthmus.

Thailand's slide down the Corruption Perception Index ranking from 99 to 101, while a disappointment, comes as no surprise.

Thailand is estimated to lose 80-100 billion baht in income, mainly from tourism, because of the deadly virus outbreak, shaving economic growth by 0.5-0.7 percentage points this year.

The fate of Thai students in Wuhan hangs in the balance after authorities locked down the city in central China to control the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, preventing Thailand from evacuating 64 of its nationals.

Kyle Mizokami

Technology, Americas

So powerful.

Key point: A staple of the U.S. Navy, these Cold War killers are being replaced by the Virginia-class.

The Los Angeles–class nuclear attack submarines were the most successful American submarines of the Cold War. The United States built sixty-two Los Angeles–class subs, more than any class except for the Gato class of World War II. Fast, powerful and heavily armed, the submarines are slowly being replaced by Virginia-class attack boats. Читать дальше...

The Herald reports: Several Act supporters have expressed their outrage after party leader David Seymour called New Zealand “Aotearoa” in a Waitangi Day slogan. Seymour released a slogan adapted from Donald Trump’s MAGA campaign, calling for Kiwis to “Make Aotearoa Great Again” ahead of Waitangi Day. The 36-year-old MP told RNZ’s Morning Report that the […]

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“When you feel you’re ready for it, let’s do it. I’ll go [expletive] up [welterweight champion Kamaru] Usman, meanwhile.”

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City's Abby Selzer has been selected as this week's Sooner Athletic Conference women's basketball player of the week for her performances from Jan. 20-26, the conference office announced Monday afternoon (Jan. 27).

Athens, Tenn.- The men's basketball team was back in James L. Robb Gymnasium on Saturday. The team took to Dwain Farmer Court to take on the Columbia International University Rams, an opponent out of the Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC).

1. Highways England's smart motorways policy killed drivers, says ex-minister  The Guardian
2. Mother, 35, demands an end to the Smart motorway roll-out after her partner was killed by a lorry  Daily Mail
3. Britain's Killer Motorways Panorama - Everything you need to know  RadioTimes
4. Smart motorways clearly aren't safe. What does the Government propose to do about it?  Telegraph.co.uk
5. Government to overhaul smart motorways after 38 have been killed on network in last... Читать дальше...