bangkokpost.com The Civil Court orders the family of a young, unlicensed driver who killed nine van passengers and injured four others in a horrific tollway crash to pay 30m baht compensation.

afp A huge fire that swept through a crowded Manila shanty town has razed more than 800 homes, leaving thousands homeless after they fled for their lives from the towering flames, officials said.


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reuters Thailand's auto exports are set to hit a record this year, good news for an industry bogged down by weak domestic demand and an economy struggling to recover after 18 months of military rule.

nationmultimedia.com Thailand should increase the average retirement age from 55 to reduce the government's pension expenditure, according to Allianz Asset Management. In the Pension Sustainability Index 2014 compiled by Allianz, Thailand ranks the lowest, and the country is expected to have one of the greatest proportion of elderly people within 35 years, together with Taiwan and South Korea.



afp Five Myanmar men fined for publishing a calendar that described the country's persecuted Muslim Rohingya as a recognised ethnic minority have been rearrested and jailed on fresh charges, police said.



bangkokpost.com Thai Air Asia is introducing new routes to India, Laos and Vietnam next year. A new route connecting Udon Thani with Krabi could be launched as early as the second half. The airline would also link Krabi with Macau, in addition to the existing connections with Guangzhou and Singapore.

reuters Migrants processing Thai chicken for its biggest export market, Europe, face widespread abuse by their employers, partly because foreign auditors have focused on food safety rather than workers' conditions, researchers said on Wednesday. Chicken is set to become the world's most consumed meat, within the next five years, overtaking pork.

bangkokpost.com US Ambassador Glyn T Davies expressed concern about the ''unprecedented'' prison terms handed down under Thailand's Criminal Code Section 112 law. No one should be jailed for peacefully expressing their opinion, he said during a talk at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand.

cnn.com ISIS has claimed responsibility for bombing a bus carrying members of Tunisia's presidential guard, the latest deadly attack to roil a country once hailed as one of the few success stories of the Arab Spring.

washingtonpost.com Attacks on American Muslims are growing uglier by the day. It must stop.

bangkokpost.com At next week's global-warming conference in Paris, Thailand will pledge to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 percent by 2030.

reuters Sales have fallen at all but one of Thailand's major supermarket retailers as the worst drought in a decade strikes at the heart of the farming sector - the backbone of the rural economy - and frustrates plans to open more stores in the provinces.

andrew-drummond.com Serial confidence trickster Drew Walter Noyes and his Thai woman partner Wanrapa Boonsu officially became fugitives from justice as Pattaya Provincial Court finally issued a warrant for their arrest after they fled on bail.

bangkokpost.com The Thai government says the invitation from two European Parliament members to Yingluck Shinawatra is a ploy to stir up Thai politics.

smh.com.au Gina Rinehart has informed CBD that Wednesday's item - stating she had acquired a villa at popular Thai resort island of Phuket - is incorrect. It is her estranged son, John Hancock, who owns a holiday home in Thailand, according to the chief financial officer from Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting, Jay Newby.

al.com A newborn found abandoned in a nativity scene at a Queens church has been nicknamed ''Baby Jesus,'' The New York Daily News reports. Jose Moran, custodian at Holy Child Jesus Church, told the newspaper he found the baby, with its umbilical still attached, after hearing his cries.

voanews.com While a United Nations report last month announced that worldwide advances mean women are living longer, healthier lives with better education, for the next 16 days the organization will be focused on ending gender-based violence and discrimination against many of those same women.



scmp.com SCMP Group, which publishes the South China Morning Post, has confirmed that it has received a preliminary approach from an interested party regarding a possible purchase of the company's media assets.



bbc.com A Singapore court has ordered the release of a man alleged by Interpol to be the mastermind behind a global football match-fixing ring. Dan Tan, also known as Tan Seet Eng, has been held under indefinite detention since October 2013. But a judge ruled that detention was unlawful as he posed no public threat.

nationmultimedia.com Satun United have been handed a three-year suspension and a hefty fine for crowd violence that marred their 1-0 home defeat against Khon Kaen United in third tier Division Two's promotion playoff round.

smh.com.au The executive behind Adelaide earning the right to host the inaugural day-night Test match, Keith Bradshaw, says a reduction from five to four days should be the next priority for cricket Test matches.



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