Posts Tagged ‘ world ’

Burma continues to be one of the world’s largest prisons for journalists…Burma joins China, Iran, Cuba and Eritrea as the five worst of 26 countries worldwide that imprison journalists… - Extracted from “ Freelance journalists under fire in Burma ”, Democratic Voice of Burma, 11 December 2009.
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I never finished Chris Orwig’s Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 video training course . Weeks ago I said I would spend more time to get a fuller understanding of Lightroom’s Develop Module tools. But I never did. I guess there are two types of people in the world – those who can… Read full...
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BANGKOK, Dec 6 (TNA) -- Concerned agencies should provide assistance to Thai farmers and agricultural workers so that their produce could retain competitiveness in the world market after Association o...
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People seem loathe to use the word “prostitute” here, instead just saying “bargirl”, possibly because of the Western stigma surrounding the world.
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And the sport day parade continued.
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Johannesburg - South African police have arrested two people for separate hoax threats against the draw for next year's World Cup.
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Duncan McCargo raised the issue of the violence in the Deep South barely registering compared with conflicts elsewhere in the world in his op-ed syndicated through Project Syndicate:...
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Hot air balloons take off during the International Balloon Festival in Ayutthaya December 3, 2009. Pilots and their balloons from all over the world arrived for the four-day balloon festival at the world heritage site of Ayutthaya as part of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s… Written by: Suthee "Phong" Buayam Read more: Thailand International...
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Italy's Molinari brothers won the World Cup at Mission Hills on Sunday by a single stroke after a thrilling tussle with Ireland and Sweden -- the first time the nation has lifted the trophy.
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Italy's Molinari brothers said their historic World Cup triumph could boost the game's profile in their native country -- before admitting they preferred watching football on TV.
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The dollar slumped to a 14-year low point against the yen on Thursday, prompting fears that a further surge could hurt a fragile recovery in Japan, the world's second largest economy.
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“Tristram! Oh, this is far out! Hahahahaha! Yah! I’m in Bangkok! How cool is that? How’s my little brother? Fuck, this is totally weird! Yah, pretty spaced out actually, got seriously baked last night, I feel like total shit, yah … hahahahaha! Yah, the hotel has like WiFi? Which is way cool ....
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Sub-Saharan Africa still has the world's highest number of HIV cases, accounting for 67 percent of global infections, a United Nations reports said on Tuesday.
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American Andre Ward battered Mikkel Kessler, seizing the Dane's World Boxing Association super-middleweight world title by an 11th-round technical decision.
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Ireland on Saturday conceded defeat in its bid to have a controversial World Cup play-off against France replayed.
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Around 6,750 people have died from the swine flu pandemic, World Health Organisation data showed Friday, about 500 more than a week ago.
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THE SICOT / SIROT Conference for the world’s leading Orthopaedic Surgeons was held over one week at the Royal Cliff Resort’s ‘PEACH Convention Centre’. The Convention was opened by Pattaya’s Mayor, Khun Itthiphol Khunplome, after a very inspiring keynote address by Thailand’s former Senator Dr
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Angry Irish football chiefs called on Thursday on FIFA to order the World Cup playoff with France to be replayed, after France's Thierry Henry helped knock out Ireland with a clear handball.
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The World Health Organisation said on Thursday that checks on many of the 30 deaths recorded following mass pandemic flu vaccinations had so far ruled out a direct link to the vaccines.
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SEVE Ballesteros has further strengthened his already extremely powerful Royal Trophy hand by drafting in Europe’s strongest and most promising young player, Martin Kaymer. The German star has rocketed to eleventh place in the world rankings, and joins world number seven Henrik Stenson and 2008 European number one Robert Karlsson in Seve’s already imposing...
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In perhaps the first interview of its kind in the world, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will discuss his tumultuous tenure as head of government and its future with Nation group |editor-in-chief Suthichai Yoon |this evening|- on Twitter.
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China has become one of a handful of nations to own one of the top five supercomputers in the world. Its Tianhe-1 computer, housed at the National Super Computer Center in Tianjin was ranked fifth on the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list. The machine packs more than 70,000 chips and can compute 563...
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AS our last edition was at the printers, the finals of the 2009 Miss International Queen competition took place at the famous Tiffany’s Theatre in Pattaya, with many local residents and international tourists witnessing the crowning of the ‘Most Beautiful Transvestite’ in the world. Despite the recent local, national and world economic problems, a...
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Social critic Dr. Prawase Wasi* is quoted in The Nation as stating: Prawase, a Magsaysay Award winner, said he suspected Hun Sen's trump card would be to lead his country into a war with Thailand in order to deflect the public's attention from his faults.He urged Thais to view the Cambodians with kindness as...
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Most famous as the exotic, remote home of the spice nutmeg, Indonesia’s Banda Islands are still home to some spicy surprises for visitors While travelling across Indonesia’s Banda Sea on a liveaboard earlier this year, we stopped off at the Banda Islands, a tiny speck on the map that once was one of...
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SF World Cinema Fail captured by Thanh-BKK . One thing to have a virus scan, another to be infected by a worm.
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