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Twin Disasters: Floods in Mindanao and Migrant Ship Sinks Near East Java, Over 1000 Dead in Just 2 Days, Hundreds More Missing
Bangkok
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Flash Floods in Philippines, Boat Disaster in Indonesia Combine for Huge Death Toll
Flash floods devastated and killed hundreds in Cagayan de Oro — a city of more than 500,000 — and 144 in nearby Iligan, with more than 300,000 residents. The rest died in several other southern and central provinces, she said.
The areas are unaccustomed to serious storms, Benito...
In Wake of Bin Laden’s Killing, Southeast Asia’s Wider Challenge
Friday, May 7, 2011
Bangkok
Links in the global terrorism chain are growing smaller as Indonesian authorities prepared for the arrival of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional summit leaders, due to arrive in Jakarta for meetings of the 18th Annual Summit scheduled to open this week, May 7-8, with some members beginning talks earlier. Indonesia holds the ASEAN Chair, so tangible domestic...
How Dangerous Was This Songkran in Thailand, (and Where it’s More Dangerous in Asia)….?
Songkran April 2011
Bangkok
Songkran is here and soon will be nearly gone, with several days of warm weather fueling lots of splashing, spraying, dousing and of course drunk driving, which like the Independence Day on Fourth of July in the U.S., it’s pretty well a given that the general populace will be living things up by downing a drink or two, or 3, or 4, etc., …Then, just as naturally...
Setting a Good Example? Seems Like Stalingrad, Thai Style…
Tuesday 10 p.m. May, 18th 2010
Bangkok
A Major Military Push Planned for Dawn?
Street fighting continues throughout Bangkok on Tuesday
… 12 year old boy arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly setting fire to buildings around Din Daeng intersection, … Red Shirts leaders want to ask for a cease fire in view of looming military crackdown on Rajprasong, citing need to preserve innocents …...
Thai and Asian Markets and Economic News
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Bangkok
2:00 p.m. The Stock Exchange of Thailand’s nearly 3 week long blockbuster rally, attributed to be mainly driven by huge foreign fund inflows, appears to have reached a plateau as a modest decline of 1.25 settled the overall market to just over the 800 level. Over just the last week’s sessions, blue chip surges sent the index up nearly 40 points to hit over...
Thai and Asian Stock Index Trade
Thai and Asian Stock Index Trade For Tuesday/ Wednesday March 30 – 31st
Bangkok
Yesterday and today’s juggernaut Thai SET Index is continuing to defy gravity after the previous three lackluster sessions in the last week ending on Monday.
Regionally on Tuesday, Malaysia was flat, despite political promises of economic reforms by the Malaysian prime minister, Singapore just barely edged...
