Section: Thailand
Chinese Online Lending Service Asks Women for Naked Selfies as Collateral
Chinese online loan sharks are targeting university students with demands of nude photographs as collateral for credit and threatening them with exposure if they don’t pay back the cash. . . BEIJING – Hundreds of photos and videos of naked women used as collateral for loans on a Chinese online lending service have leaked onto the web,...
Ukraine’s ex-leader Yanukovych accuses protesters of starting war
KIEV – Ukraine’s former Moscow-backed president on Monday accused pro-EU protesters who forced his ouster of provoking the 31-month pro-Russian revolt in the southeast that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives. …read more Source: Bangkok...
European leaders, Obama say must maintain NATO cooperation
BERLIN – US President Barack Obama and European leaders stressed Friday that cooperation through international bodies including NATO must be maintained, as they also vowed to keep up sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Safety pins: a pointed show of solidarity after Trump election
WASHINGTON – People have long used ribbons, flowers, colors or badges to symbolize political causes, from the carnations of Portugal’s 1974 revolution to the orange ribbons of Ukraine’s 2004 revolution to the gel wristbands now worn to promote almost any charity. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Children ‘forget Ukrainian’ as schools drop classes in rebel area
DONETSK (UKRAINE) – Valeriya Turbay says she’s forgetting how to speak Ukraine’s official language as schoolchildren in the bastion of the pro-Russian rebels get fewer lessons after two years of war and an onslaught of Kremlin-inspired instruction. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Countries OK world’s largest marine reserve in Antarctica
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The countries that decide the fate of Antarctica reached an historic agreement on Friday to create the world’s largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the frozen continent. In this Jan. 26, 2015 photo, pieces of thawing ice are scattered along the beachshore at Punta Hanna, Livingston Island, in the...
UK and US Sending War Planes to Romania as NATO’s Builds Defenses on Russia’s Borders
The US F22 airplanes’ and crews were welcomed at the Romanian air base near the Black Sea -Photo AP BRUSSSLES – The United Kingdom said on Wednesday it will send fighter jets to Romania next year and the United States promised troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO’s biggest military build-up on Russia’s borders since the...
European Parliament to award Sakharov prize
STRASBOURG (FRANCE) – Exiled Turkish journalist Can Dundar, Crimean Tatar activist Mustafa Dzhemilev and two Yazidi victims of the Islamic State group have been shortlisted for the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize to be announced Thursday. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Kuznetsova one win from WTA Finals
MOSCOW – Top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced into the final of the Kremlin Cup on Friday with a hard-fought win over fourth seed Ukrainian Elina Svitolina to give her hopes of making the WTA Finals a further boost. …read more Source: Bangkok...
EU leaders lash Russia over Syria but split on sanctions
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders pledged early Friday to keep all options open to respond to any atrocities committed by President Bashar Assad’s regime and his Russian backers in Syria but stopped short of threatening Moscow with sanctions. European Union Council President Donald Tusk speaks to media reporters as he arrives for the...
