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Nualphan appointed first manager of national football team

10Sep

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Nualphan appointed first manager of national football team

Nualphan appointed first manager of national football team Nualphan Lamsam, appointed the first manager of the men's national football team. (Photo: Football Association of Thailand) The Football Association of Thailand has appointed businesswoman Nualphan Lamsam the manager of the men's national team, after the War Elephants crumpled in the Asian qualifying round of the World Cup. The FAT said on Monday that Nualphan "Madam Pang" was well qualified for the post. She had steered the women's side to the final round of the Fifa World Cup twice when she was their manager. The Thai football governing body said it hoped she would replicate that success with the men's team. She will also manage the U-23 side. She would "restore the dignity of the Thai national team", the FAT announcement sa...

Hong Kong police arrest Tiananmen vigil organisers

10Sep

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Hong Kong police arrest Tiananmen vigil organisers

Hong Kong police arrest Tiananmen vigil organisers The Hong Kong Alliance organised three decades of vigils commemorating the victims of Beijing's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. HONG KONG: Hong Kong police on Wednesday arrested multiple members of the group behind the city's Tiananmen Square vigils, a day after their organisation declared they would refuse to cooperate with a national security investigation. In a short statement to reporters, the Hong Kong Alliance confirmed three members -- Simon Leung, Sean Tang and Chan To-wai -- were arrested on Wednesday morning. An AFP reporter also saw another member, barrister Chow Hang-tung, being led away by police in handcuffs from her office in the city's central business district. Police have not yet confirmed the arrests or charges. ...

Relationship between horses and humans is special and here to stay, says equine expert

10Sep

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Relationship between horses and humans is special and here to stay, says equine expert

Working horses in Ontario live in some of the best conditions and are protected by some of the most stringent animal welfare laws in the world, says a University of Guelph veterinary expert. And removing a horse as a working animal also diminishes its importance in the history of human culture, said Dr. Luis Arroyo, of Guelph’s equine studies program. Animal rights protesters have become almost as much of a Niagara-on-the-Lake fixture as ice cream shops and vineyard visiting cyclists over the past three years. On any given weekend or holiday “carriage-free by 2023” banners can be seen adorning the intersection of Queen and King streets. With the rise of a pro-carriage protest movement, The Lake Report sought out an expert on equines to offer insight on the difficulties and strains that

9Sep

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PM AWARD 2021

PM AWARD 2021 The Ministry of Commerce recently hosted the 30th anniversary edition of Prime Minister's Export Award (2021). The ceremony for Thailand’s highest accolade for exporters was held as a virtual live event on 3 September 2021, and can be viewed at: https://www.facebook.com/familyditp In celebrating three decades of generating success, this year’s PM Awards introduce new additions to the existing categories that further boost inspiration and increase sustainable competitiveness and recognition of Thai products and services in the international arena. The awards aim to inspire and encourage Thai entrepreneurs to establish and maintain an international presence for Thai ingenuity through leading Thai brands. The Prime Minister’s Export Awards 2021 comprise seven categories: Bes

Finnoventure Fund I backs growth of local tech startups

9Sep

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Finnoventure Fund I backs growth of local tech startups

Mr Sam says KFIN concentrates on three sectors for tech investment: fintech, e-commerce and automotive. Krungsri Finnovate (KFIN), a corporate venture capital arm under Bank of Ayudhya (BAY), launched a startup fund on Thursday for high net worth investors interested in tech companies. The move aims to support the growth of local tech startups in the long term, said Sam Tanskul, managing director of KFIN. Finnoventure Fund I claims to be the first startup private equity trust fund in Thailand and Asean to provide an option to institutional and high net worth investors under the regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, he said. The size of Finnoventure Fund I is set at 3 billion baht with a 10-year maturity, with investment focused on Series A startups, said Mr Sam. Invest...

Hong Kong-style cafés boast vast menus that reflect the steeped cultures of the region. Here’s what you should order

8Sep

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Hong Kong-style cafés boast vast menus that reflect the steeped cultures of the region. Here’s what you should order

To understand the breakfast menu at a cha chang tang, often called a Hong Kong-style diner, is to understand the region’s layered history. Hong Kong’s role as a port city and former British colony has resulted in a cuisine that is a mishmash of (among others) British, Portuguese, Japanese, Malaysian, Cantonese and Singaporean flavours. It’s why the menu offers steak and eggs alongside satay beef with vermicelli, accompanied by a tall glass of ying yang, a milk tea mixed with coffee; and my personal favourite, macaroni soup with ham. It’s a no-fuss dish of elbow macaroni in a clear broth with diced luncheon meat. The soup is such a breakfast staple in Hong Kong that it is served both at luxury hotels and at McDonald’s. It’s not fusion cooking per se, but a culinary record of how cuisines

Harris rebukes China in speech on Indo-Pacific vision

7Sep

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Harris rebukes China in speech on Indo-Pacific vision

SINGAPORE (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a sharp rebuke to China for its incursions in the South China Sea, warning its actions there amount to “coercion” and “intimidation” and affirming that the U.S. will support its allies in the region against Beijing’s advances. “We know that Beijing continues to coerce, to intimidate and to make claims to the vast majority of the South China Sea,” she said in a foreign policy speech Tuesday in Singapore in which she laid out the Biden administration’s vision for the Indo-Pacific. “Beijing’s actions continue to undermine the rules-based order and threaten the sovereignty of nations.” Harris, who is on a weeklong swing through Southeast Asia, declared that the U.S. “stands with our allies and our partners” in the face of threats f

New Vulnerability Assessment Tool from Toshiba and Peraton Labs Strengthens Cyber Resilience of Infrastructure

30Aug

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New Vulnerability Assessment Tool from Toshiba and Peraton Labs Strengthens Cyber Resilience of Infrastructure

New Vulnerability Assessment Tool from Toshiba and Peraton Labs Strengthens Cyber Resilience of Infrastructure Identifies critical cyber security threats on industrial control systems TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) and Peraton Labs today announced a new jointly-developed vulnerability assessment tool that emulates cyberattacks on industrial control systems. Dubbed Automated Attack Path Planning and Validation (A2P2V), this powerful new tool automatically generates cyberattack scenarios and simulates attacks that combine advanced offensive techniques to test and determine control system security status. It verifies results to identify security threats that need to be prioritized among the increasing number and range of cyberattacks. A2P2V combines industrial control system confi

Thousands jam Philippine vaccination sites over false news

30Aug

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Thousands jam Philippine vaccination sites over false news

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of people jammed coronavirus vaccination centers in the Philippine capital, defying social distancing restrictions, after false news spread that unvaccinated residents would be deprived of cash aid or barred from leaving home during a two-week lockdown that started Friday. Officials placed Metropolitan Manila back under lockdown until Aug. 20, as a new spike in COVID-19 infections that health officials say could be due to the highly contagious delta variant threatens to overwhelm hospitals. Three other regions, including nearby Laguna province, were also placed under lockdown until Aug. 15. Only authorized workers for essential businesses and residents on medical emergencies or food-buying errands can venture out. An eight-hour curfew was imposed in t

29Aug

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Recession fears mount as cases rise

Asoke junction along Sukhumvit Road, usually jammed with traffic, is dead as people work from home during the lockdown. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb) Thailand will likely be the worst economic performer in Southeast Asia this year, with economists continuing to slash the country's growth forecast amid surging Covid-19 infections, mounting political tensions and fading hopes for a tourism revival, according to Bloomberg. The Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) downgraded the country's 2021 economic forecast to 1.3% GDP growth, a dip from an April projection of 2.3%, on the assumption new infections of Covid-19 will peak in the middle of August, said director-general Kulaya Tantitemit. However, the FPO expects the situation to improve in 2022 as the business sector gradually returns to normalcy, lea...