Section: Thailand
Klitschkos’ former trainer dies
BERLIN – Fritz Sdunek, who was the trainer for Ukrainian heavyweight boxing brothers Vitaly and Wladimir Klitschko, has died aged 67, following complications after a heart attack, according to AFP subsidiary SID. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Turkey-based AFP photographer wins Time laurel
WASHINGTON – Time magazine named AFP’s Bulent Kilic as its Best Wire Photographer for 2014 on Monday for his powerful images from the Syrian border, Ukraine and his native Turkey. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Rosneft scraps purchase of Morgan Stanley’s oil trading business
MOSCOW – Russian oil major Rosneft, hit by US sanctions over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis, said Monday it had to abandon plans to purchase the oil trading business of US bank Morgan Stanley after failing to win regulatory approval. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Army backs soldiers over ‘abduction’
The military said Sunday the five soldiers and five civilians who allegedly abducted a Ukrainian man and his wife in Phuket were not an extortion gang but were in fact acting as a go-between to negotiate a debt settlement. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Soldiers and civilians arrested for Phuket abduction
Five soldiers and five civilians have been arrested and charged over the armed abduction of a Ukrainian man and his wife in Phuket. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Russia brands new sanctions roadblock to Ukraine peace
KIEV – Russia accused the West on Saturday of fuelling unrest in Ukraine by adopting anti-Kremlin sanctions that further erode the prospects of peace talks to end the separatist war. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Udomdej won’t spare rogue soldiers
The army has vowed not to spare any soldiers if they are found to have been involved in the abduction and extortion of a Ukrainian couple in Phuket. …read more Source: Bangkok...
EU needs long-term Russia strategy lasting ‘years’: Tusk
BRUSSELS – New EU president Donald Tusk said Thursday the bloc needs a strategy on Russia lasting years, not just weeks or months, to cope with the problems raised by its intervention in Ukraine. …read more Source: Bangkok...
EU leaders press Russia, urge new investment
BRUSSELS – European Union leaders urged Vladimir Putin to make a “radical change” in his stance on Ukraine Thursday as they boosted sanctions against Crimea despite fears of economic blowback from Russia’s spiralling financial crisis. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Putin promises economic recovery, digs in on Ukraine
MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin on Thursday tried to quell fears of economic collapse and vowed rapid recovery from the worst financial crisis of his rule but stressed that his position on Ukraine has not shifted. …read more Source: Bangkok...
