Vietnam last year experienced the harshest weather conditions in five decades, climatologists told a seminar in HCM City on Wednesday. Bui Minh Tang, director of the National Hydro Meteorological Forecasting Centre, said in 2013 the number of storms and tropical low pressure areas entering the East sea and hitting Viet Nam was the highest in […]
A spokesperson for the Australian Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Warren Truss, announced plans this week to close four mainland immigration detention facilities — Scherger, at RAAF Scherger, Queensland; Leonora, in Leonora, Western Australia; Port Augusta, in Port Augusta, South Australia; and Inverbrackie facilities in Woodside, the Adelaide Hills, South Australia — by […]
The cabinet of the island nation of Nauru endorsed rise of the cost of an application for single-entry three-month media visa from AU$200 to $8,000 last Thursday. The rise followed a scandal last weekend involving Lebanese asylum seekers voluntarily deciding to return home from the Nauru offshore processing facility, an Australian immigration detention facility, after […]
The Australian Royal Navy towed back arriving asylum seekers to Rote Island, Indonesia, after claiming Christmas Island destination, Indonesian National Police reported Monday of last week. Last Thursday, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott supported lack of transparency on the issue. Indonesian police found the two ships reportedly forcibly towed back from Australia on December 19, […]
Ariel Sharon, the former Prime Minister of Israel, died today at the Sheba Medical Center just outside Tel Aviv after his conditioned worsened significantly over the last few days. Sharon had been in a coma since suffering a stroke in January 2006. Before becoming a politician, Sharon served in the army, having joined the Haganah […]
BANGKOK, 9 January 2014 (NNT) — Thailand has once again won the snow sculpture competition in China, making it the 5th consecutive win for the country this year. Secretary-General the Office of Vocational Education Commission Dr. Chaipreuk Sereerak happily announced that Thailand has won for the 5th consecutive year the top prize at the “6th […]
Two Thai women have been arrested for luring women into prostitution in South Korea and the United Kingdom. Suspects Thipphawan Tempao and Phingjai Kim had allegedly duped the former’s niece, who is a minor, the police Anti-Human Trafficking Division said at a press conference yesterday. Thipphawan is married to a Korean man. Read more: The […]
A foreign student from Thailand has drowned while swimming at a beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, the Northern Star online reported Sunday. Emergency services were called to Maroubra Beach at 1.30am on Sunday after reports that a man had disappeared in the water. Read more: The Nation
